A chart that depicts the number of data centers by federal agency
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In its 2012 federal budget proposal, the Obama administration has asserted that cloud computing and data center consolidation will play a significant role in curbing IT costs.
The administration’s proposal allocotes $79.5 billion for IT costs for fiscal 2012, which begins October 1, which would be a 1.9 increase over fiscal 2010.
Meanwhile, the current fiscal year’s IT spending is currently under Continuing Resolutions, with the latest resolution gives the Federal government enough funding to run through March 4.
According to the administration, it is able to keep IT spending nearly at a constant for a while thanks to savings of more than $3 billion from IT consolidation and a planned migration to cloud computing approach.
For the past year, the administration has been planning the massive data center consolidation initiative.
Last July, President Obama ordered for the acceleration of the consolidation of data centers, and by October it looked as though the federal government had finally established concrete goals for the initiative.
Finally, in December, the administration said it would close more than 800 of the government’s 2,100 data centers by 2015.
Earlier this month, federal CIO Vivek Kundra issued a report that detailed the “cloud first” strategy for federal agencies.
In the report, he estimated that the federal government could reallocate some $20 billion of IT spending to cloud computing technologies and reduce “data center infrastructure expenditure by approximately 30 percent” through cloud computing.
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