In According to sources, up to 40 percent of the government owned Data Centres in USA could be closed down over the next four years. The federal government is closing the Data Centres to reduce its heavy technology budget and also to bring about modernisation in the way it uses computers to manage data and provide services to citizens.
Even though the Data Centres are not known to employ too many people, analysts are of the opinion that tends of thousands of jobs in USA, and in places where the suppliers are based, could be lost. Currently the government of USA is considered too be the largest buyer of technology in the world. It spends around $80 billion a year and it owns a sprawling collection of 2000 data centres. But the ballooning fiscal crisis is forcing the Obama administration to close 800 of its Data Centres.
The savings of this step would run into billions of dollars and thousands of acres of real estate could get freed. In closing the Data Centres, the federal government is following the lead of private businesses. For many years, major companies have been using innovative software to share computing task across several machines in the Data Centres. The use of new technologies and the move to cloud computing will not only reduce costs, it will also create a more responsive and efficient government services.
According to the federal governments own estimates, even a partial move to cloud computing could save at least $5 billion.
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