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U.S.: Government Has Shuttered 64 Data Centers Since August
Source: nextgov.com
Source Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Focus: ICT for MDGs
Country: United States
Created: Nov 20, 2012

The government has shuttered 382 data centers since 2010, 64 of them in the past three months, according to updated figures the Office of Management and Budget released Thursday.

Agencies plan to close 315 more centers by the end of September 2013, according to a spreadsheet posted to the government open data platform Data.gov.

The government had closed 318 data centers as of the last update in August. The latest update included all data centers closed as of Oct. 26.

OMB plans to shut down about 40 percent of the government’s original stock of roughly 3,100 data centers by the end of 2015. The program is expected to save $5 billion, though those savings won’t all have accrued by the 2015 deadline, federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel has said.

The initiative is aimed at modernizing the government’s computer storage by shifting to more efficient consolidated data centers and to computer clouds.

(By Joseph Marks)
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