In 2010, the Defense Department began accelerating toward its information technology future by putting the brakes on data center growth. That year, the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative ...

Data center consolidation has been a priority for federal information technology teams since 2010 when the government launched the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI). The goal was to ...

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 ...

Feds are hoping for big savings through data center consolidation, but there's more to it than is first apparent. A new MeriTalk survey of IT managers in civilian agencies suggests that they can save ...

Four major themes emerged in Nemertes’ latest data center research, drawn from interviews with 82 data-center managers, CIOs, IT directors and other IT executives from 65 companies across a range of ...

Efforts by the Army and Navy to meet the Defense Department’s mandate to consolidate data centers have been slowed by the automatic budget cuts that took effect earlier this year – an irony ...

Provisions in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act could hamper ongoing Defense Department efforts to consolidate data centers and move to a cloud-based enterprise e-mail program hosted by the ...

The undisputable trend across data centers is consolidation. Whether we look at servers or storage, or even the physical data center itself, consolidation is the top priority within most data centers.

Any organization that buys up 40 different companies in a four year time period is likely to have to deal with some formidable systems integration issues. Legal services provider, Lexitas found that ...