The U.S. government could save billions of dollars in the management of IT resources by significantly improving outdated and overworked networks. Federal agencies are making progress on five key IT initiatives: data consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, remote access and infrastructure diversification. However, they could save an additional 24 percent of their IT budgets — or approximately $19.7 billion annually — by fully exploiting the savings that these initiatives potentially can generate.
Network Upgrades Key to Federal IT Agenda
Posted by: John K. Higgins May 21, 2014 06:15 AMThe U.S. government could save billions of dollars in the management of IT resources by significantly improving outdated and overworked networks. Federal agencies are making progress on five key IT initiatives: data consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, remote access and infrastructure diversification. However, they could save an additional 24 percent of their IT budgets — or approximately $19.7 billion annually — by fully exploiting the savings that these initiatives potentially can generate.