Consolidation

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• Roundup: Xerox, CapGemini, IO, WiredRE, Cervalis

  March 14th, 2012 : John Rath

  Xerox ($848 million) and CapGemini ($127 million) win Texas data center consolidation contract, IO selected by Southern Foodservice, WiredRE brokers California lease for colocation company, Cervalis receives PCI certification. Read More

• Data Center Consolidation: Managing Expectations

  August 30th, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau

  Mergers, acquisitions, right sizing and a host of other initiatives often lead to the consolidation of data centers. These projects birth a host of stakeholders from the C level to the technician with each one bearing a different agenda and criteria for success. Meeting expectations is a project within the project and this Gartner Report specifically addresses these management issues. Read More

• Canadian Government To Close 280 Data Centers

  August 5th, 2011 : John Rath

  On Thursday the Government of Canada announced measures to streamline and identify savings in its IT operations through Shared Services Canada, which includes reducing the number of data centers from 300 today to less than 20. Read More

• GM to Invest $130 Million in New Data Center

  June 6th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Automaker General Motors (GM) will invest $130 million to build an enterprise data center at its Technical Center campus in Warren, Mich., that will allow it to reduce operating costs by consolidating its IT infrastructure into a more efficient facility. Read More

• Feds Will Shutter 137 Data Centers in 2011

  April 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  The U.S. government has shut down 39 data centers so far this year, and expects to close 98 more by the end of 2011, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said in an update on the government's data center consolidation and cloud computing strategy. Read More

• Optimize Your Data Center Operations

  April 26th, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau

  Today's IT organizations are under pressure to continually adapt IT resources to keep pace with changing business priorities, all the while seeking methods to lower costs and improve efficiency in the data center. The racked, stacked, and wired infrastructure common in today's data center creates obstacles in the ability to deliver and manage new applications critical to the business. Read More

• NYC Opens Consolidated Data Center

  March 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller

  New York City has opened a new data center in Brooklyn where the city will centralize the IT infrastructure for more than 40 city agencies over the next five years. The city says the facility at the MetroTech Center will allow it to save more than $100 million over five years. Read More

• Feds Discover 1,000 More Data Centers

  October 13th, 2010 : Rich Miller

  The U.S. government has 2,094 data centers, nearly 1,000 more than federal CIO Vivek Kundra's previous estimate of 1,100, according to an inventory connected with the federal data center consolidation. Read More

• Obama: Let’s Sell Some Data Centers!

  June 11th, 2010 : Rich Miller

  On Thursday President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the heads of federal agencies to accelerate efforts to sell or consolidate underused real estate, singling out data enters for special attention. Read More

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