FDCCI

One of the biggest stories of the last year in federal government IT news has been reducing data center footprint for both civilian and military agencies. While civilian agencies have…

In a recent episode of the Federal Technology Insider Podcast, we sat down with Jay McCargo and John Stanton of ARServices to discuss the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI), a…

In August of 2016, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer released a memorandum detailing the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI)…

With IT modernization at the top of many federal agencies’ priority lists, it’s no surprise that the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) is a more prominent topic for discussion. Because…

In February 2010 then Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, introduced the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) to assist agencies in stemming the “growth in redundant infrastructure [that] is costly, inefficient,…

Is DCOI about data center consolidation or moving to the cloud?  Yes—DCOI is about both! A Perfect Storm In 2010, Vivek Kundra announced that the federal government had 10,584 datacenters.…

Speakers at the ATARC Cloud Computing Summit in Washington, D.C., last month made the case that federal initiatives aimed at consolidating and optimizing data centers are cloud computing initiatives as…

How USAID is Putting Open Data to Work Using Mobile Apps With international aid organizations creating terabytes of data each day about the projects they administer and the communities they…

Consolidation, optimization, and agility are the three hottest topics in IT this summer, especially for federal CIOs. While the process of moving away from legacy systems and modernizing IT infrastructure…

A panel of federal executives immersed in implementing policies laid out in FITARA – the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act – say the law is really helping them move…