Federal Government Information Technology

Federal agencies are $3.3B short of data storage savings goals

Fedscoop: Federal agencies have through fiscal 2018 to accrue the remaining $3.3 billion in savings from data center closures and consolidations they pledged to achieve as part of an initiative housed within the Federal Information Technology Acquisition and Reform Act.

As part of the Office of Management and Budget’s Data Center Optimization Initiative, agencies were tasked with saving $4 billion from fiscal 2016 though fiscal 2018.

Despite retiring nearly 4,400 data centers and making plans to shut down about 5,600 more by 2019, the 24 agencies participating in the DCOI reported only $656 million in data center-related savings since the start of fiscal 2016, according to a report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office.

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