Fed data center reduction: Spend now to save later?

"The Obama administration's initiative to consolidate federal data centers will result in a burst of spending by the government to transfer data and infrastructure to new locations," writes E-Commerce Times' John K. Higgins in his recent Government IT Report.

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"In order to save money in the long run, the government will have to spend billions in the short term, and [data center] contractors see the trend continuing," contends Higgins, noting that the reduction initiative's overall goal is to cut the number of federal data centers by about 40 percent.

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