• IRS Data Centers Gird for Tax Season

    March 29th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    IT executives at the IRS say it has made huge strides in modernizing its data centers and hardware, which processed 139 million returns and issued $298 billion in refunds in 2009. But the GAO says the modernization effort hasn't moved quickly enough, and continues to fault the IRS for weaknesses in its security practices. Read More

  • Australia’s $1 Billion Data Center Consolidation

    March 23rd, 2010 : John Rath

    The government of Australia hopes to save up to $1 billion by centralizing all its data center services, a project that will extend through 2025. Read More

  • NASA Reworks $1.5 Billion Data Center Contract

    March 10th, 2010 : John Rath

    NASA announced that it is reworking the agency's strategy for acquiring an enterprise data center, and postponed the release of a final request for proposals for what could have been a $1.5 billion contract. Read More

  • Next Up for Consolidation: New York City

    March 2nd, 2010 : Rich Miller

    New York City has announced plans for a data center consolidation to cut costs and eliminate redundancies in its IT infrastructure. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the consolidation will save the city up to $100 million over five years. Read More

  • Feds Commence Huge Data Center Consolidation

    March 1st, 2010 : Rich Miller

    The federal government has begun what looms as the largest data center consolidation in history, hoping to dramatically reduce IT operations that are currently distributed among more than 1,100 data centers. Read More

  • Retiring A Data Center. With an Axe.

    February 26th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    What becomes of a data center when it reaches the end of its usefulness? What procedures and rituals are required when a data center is turned off? Dean Nelson details the process as eBay powers down its oldest data center. Read More

  • California Plans Fast Data Center Consolidation

    February 11th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Tuesday stipulating that California reduce the total amount of data center square footage currently utilized by state agencies by 25 percent by July, and by 50 percent by July 2011. Read More

  • State Dept. to Consolidate Data Centers

    August 20th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    The U.S. State Department has posted a notice indicating it will consolidate its data center, according to Federal Computer Week. Read More

  • Congress Debates DHS Data Center Budget

    June 18th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    It looks like funding for a critical data center consolidation for the Department of Homeland Security has become a political football in the wake of a critical report from DHS' own inspector general Read More

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