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Federal government data center closings: 2011 report card

By | November 22, 2011, 8:49am PST

Summary: The government appears to be ahead of schedule in its plan to close more than half of its data centers by 2015.

InformationWeek’s J. Nicholas Hoover provides a great look at the progress made so far in the federal government’s efforts to shutter and consolidate more than half of it’s 2,094 data centers by 2015.

Things are running ahead of schedule, in fact — the government is already on track to close 472 data centers by the end of 2012.The Department of Defense, which accounts for a third of data centers, already shuttered 52 of them in fiscal 2011.

as part of this effort, the government hopes — by employing virtualization and cloud computing — to increase average server utilization rates from the current range of 7% to 15% to 60% to 70%.

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Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is co-author, along with 16 leading industry leaders and thinkers, of the SOA Manifesto, which outlines the values and guiding principles of service orientation. He also speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts, and serves on the program committee for this year's SOA & Cloud Symposium in London. As an independent analyst, he has also authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields. He is a graduate of Temple University.

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