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Draft plans to consolidate data centers due this month
Finals submissions, due by the end of July, will include a detailed inventory and information on the types of servers and processes used in each center and how much power they consume.
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Survey: Cloud computing to make huge strides by 2020
Mobile devices and ease of use must outpace concerns about security, privacy and access.
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Obama orders sales of excess data centers
Agencies should immediately cap the number of data centers and reduce the count by 2015, the president says.
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Education Department's innovation portal signs up 4,400
The Education Department has collected 128 ideas and attracted 4,468 people to its online innovation portal.
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Lawmakers worry about lack of cloud computing guidance
High costs, limited security standards top list of concerns.
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Groups want agencies to post more advisory meetings on the Web
Government watchdogs press Congress to pass a bill that would demand federal managers post transcripts or recordings of proceedings shortly after they occur.
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OMB wants agencies to emphasize IT efficiencies in 2012 budgets
Director wants federal IT shops to include in future spending plans consolidation of data centers and the adoption of cloud computing to cut technology costs.
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Patent office teams with Google to put data online
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is handing over nearly 10 terabytes of its data to Google so that it can be made available for free online.
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Cooler data centers could save millions for IRS
Federal auditors today said the IRS could save $3 million over four years by improving energy efficiency at two data centers, but the service disagreed with that estimate.
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GAO calls for better efficiency measurements, but IT could help
OMB has issued inconsistent, limited guidance to agencies on measuring efficiency, but auditors noted the White House has emphasized increasing efficiency through IT-related initiatives.
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GSA inspector general dings e-travel system for high costs and poor design
Agency says E-Gov Travel Service 2.0 will address many concerns found in audit.
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Give and Take
Agencies see the potential for savings with cloud computing, but jobs could be on the line.
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Microsoft offers cloud for politicians
Microsoft has teamed with ElectionMall.com to introduce Campaign Cloud, an array of cloud services for political campaigns.
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The Pentagon sees its future in the cloud
The Pentagon has numerous cloud services up and running, and systems planners are banking on software as a service, one of the cloud's most popular early forms, to deliver some major capabilities sooner rather than later.
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Amazon talks cybersecurity in the cloud for feds
Nextgov discusses government managers' fear of losing control, data breaches and disaster recovery with Adam Selipsky, head of the company's Web services division.
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Government-only virtual world on the way
Federal agencies are building the vGov government-only virtual world that will be used for employee training, education, meetings and simulations. It's expected to go online in July.
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