Outsourcing your agency’s data centers is increasingly innovative and appealing, and the pressure to move is mounting. Cloud based services are flexible, efficient, cost-effective, and scalable. They leverage sophisticated automation, storage, and security tools – and promise enhanced reliability, improved service delivery and reduced burden on limited IT staff and resources. But is it all
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Today’s toolkit for reducing an agency’s data center footprint is far more advanced – and efficient – than it was five years ago at the start of the FDCCI push. Lessons learned across agencies have led to smarter optimization efforts focused around application rationalization, virtualization, and increasingly software defined IT, as a means to the
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Technology changes too fast to risk locking in yesterday’s solution for tomorrow’s challenges. Next gen tools are critical as agency heads and lawmakers demand faster, smarter, cheaper, and greener data center infrastructures. Trends like containerized data centers, or “data center in a box” are allowing users to scale on demand, making it an attractive and
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