Now that the first two phases of the federal government’s long-term data center consolidation effort have been completed, the plan to reduce the number of federal data centers by 40% by 2015 has been put into effect. In June, President Obama issued a memo instructing agencies to adopt a zero-growth strategy for data center space over the near term, to be followed by a reduction in data center floor space over the next five years. While many private sector companies have been scaling data center operation, the number of federal data centers has quadrupled over the past 12 years, from 432 in 1998 to 2,094 in 2010.
Federal Government Data Center Consolidation Under Way
