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'DISA First' to be replaced by Joint Information Environment, says Navy official

"DISA First" may no longer be the watchword for Defense Department data center consolidation, said a Navy official May 23 during a conference on military adoption of open source software.

House and Senate appropriators cut DHS cybersecurity funding

House appropriations also voted to approve $241 million for the DHS OCIO an amount $71.1 million less than the request.

196 federal data centers to be shuttered in fiscal 2013

The federal government plans to close 196 data centers in fiscal 2013 according to newly-released figures posted May 11 to data.gov .

Audio: Steven VanRoekel urges innovation despite funding crunch

Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel spoke March 3 about the ways government can deliver value despite constrained budgets during the opening keynote of the FOSE conference in...

OMB: Agencies will shut down 40% of data centers

The Office of Management and Budget has expanded its estimate of data centers agencies will close by the end of fiscal 2012 to 1,200. In a Dec. 20 blog post, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven

DoD IT strategy focuses on consolidation

The Defense Department says it has a departmentwide information technology plan that will allow flexible adoption of emerging technology while taking "appropriate actions" for projects that are "not

DHS IT programs cut in omnibus

House and Senate lawmakers have approved a spending package for federal agencies covering the remainder of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. The bill, known as an omnibus because it consolidates a

Army fast tracks data center consolidation efforts

Army officials met Dec. 13 for the first in a series of meetings on its strategy to more aggressively consolidate data centers. Not only does the Army claim 200, or 25 percent, of the 800 federal

Standards are a key benefit of data center consolidation, says ICE

Migrating Immigration and Customs Enforcement systems to a consolidated Homeland Security Department data center was "painful from an end-user perspective," said Brent Bushey, project manager for

'DISA first' for data center consolidation, says Army and Air Force

The Defense Information Systems Agency will be the provider of first choice for Air Force, Army and Defense Logistics Agency data centers, says a Nov. 8 consolidation plan from the DoD chief