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The marching orders have been delivered. By 2015, federal IT organizations have been told they must consolidate datacenters by 40%, for an overall reduction of 800 datacenters. Trouble is, how do agencies get there from here?

Most federal datacenters are already working to transition away from siloed, traditional datacenters, to more responsive, services-based IT operations. Agencies clearly understand datacenter consolidation efforts will reduce the costs of hardware, software, and operations by decommissioning underutilized equipment, applications and data. Consolidation also lowers maintenance and personnel costs. Shifting IT investments to more efficient computing technologies will also reduce ongoing equipment and operational costs.