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Government Technologist: Vivek Kundra's data center problem

The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years, an expensive and wasteful trend that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says he wants to stop. Full Article at NextGov

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  1. NASA, like most government agencies, is having to use technology to innovate and to realize savings
    SOURCE: NextGov 1 month ago
  2. We need to get away from this model of investing heavily in infrastructure
    – Vivek Kundra SOURCE: Information Week 1 month ago
  3. I think this is probably a conservative estimate, considering the push from the administration
    SOURCE: ComputerWorld 1 month ago
  4. Where we really need help is as we move into this new world where we are much more focused on services, and we start thinking about the underlying architecture to provide those services
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