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Aug, 2016 : New Data Center Consolidation Plan Released by Pentagon
📅 - The US Department of Defense may be the largest data center operator in the world. They recently announced a new plan for consolidation of the data centers. The plan was announced after a report from the government watchdog pointing out that they were not meeting their goals.
The Pentagon has cost cutting and consolidation goals they would like to meet and optimizing the plan will help them meet these goals. They will be building cloud computing environments for different departments and trying to reach six other goals.
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