Fed IT budget chokes spending, eliminates data centers

ComputerWorld: President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal, released last week, would flatten federal IT spending and require federal agencies to consolidate IT operations.

The IT budget is getting far less attention than the administration's plan to scrap NASA's program for a manned mission to the moon, but its call to implement the best practices of successful private-sector data centers could lead to a radical transformation of federal IT operations. Read Article

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