Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. Since the Office of Management and Budget launched its Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), the Transportation ...

When Oklahoma began its data center consolidation in 2011, each of the state’s more than 170 agencies had been procuring its own IT infrastructure. “We had 129 different email systems and 30 data ...

In 2010, the Office of Management and Budget championed the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative as the means to close 40 percent of the government's data centers and save $5 billion by 2015.

Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. Like most officials ...

For nearly two decades, the U.S. federal government has muddled through its efforts to consolidate its thousands of aging and expensive data centers. Now, facing a bloated national debt over $20 ...

One of the ongoing technology trends that impact the majority of companies is data center consolidation. There are two primary components of data center consolidation: taking servers out of branch ...

Data center consolidation continues to be a hot topic, and with good reason. It has proven to be an effective way to reduce costs and complexity, setting organizations on a course for more efficient ...

Rick Stevenson is CEO at Opengear. The United States government, like all of us, is trying to save a little cash and make its day-to-day operations a little more efficient. And while most of us might ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Neil Sweeney, founder and CEO at Freckle ...

Yesterday -- in a conference call with Government Technology-- Texas CTO Larry Olson announced that an $863 million contract had been signed with IBM for statewide data center consolidation and ...

Earlier this month, NASA's Kennedy Space Center cut the ribbon, opening their new data center, designed to consolidate older facilities and to support multiple users within the NASA community. The ...