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The STAND: Data Center Optimization


Government is faced with exploding demand to provide services to end users, be they ordinary citizens or war fighters. The data center is a primary resource that overworked and undermanned IT organizations will use to meet this demand.

THE STAND: Data Center Optimization gives insights from one long-time industry insider into how IT organizations can gain firmer control of their assets and bring them into line with agency business goals. Learn how – done the right way -- data center optimization provides crucial support to expanding agency missions.
Questions:

  1. What are the advantages to agencies optimizing their data centers? Are there any that you think are currently underplayed that deserve more attention?

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  2. What are the least appreciated or least understood issues involved with data center optimization, and why?

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  3. How does the government’s need to assure the security of its data play in data center optimization efforts? Is security naturally strengthened as a result of optimization, and if so how? Or do agencies have to plan for it?

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  4. There is a major push in government towards increasing use of cloud computing. Is data center optimization a part of that, or is it a necessary precursor. How does optimization relate to cloud computing?

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  5. How does your company view the status of data center optimization in the federal government today, and how do you see it changing over the next five years?

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  6. Many companies offer data center optimization services. What does your company bring to the table that's different or unique?

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  7. When will an agency know that its data center optimization is complete? Is data center optimization, in fact, ever complete?

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  8. Is data center optimization an all-or-nothing endeavor? Can agencies pick and choose what parts of data centers they optimize? If so, how can they best make those choices? If not, why not?

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  9. How can agencies ensure that their current data center operations are maintained at a high level while they migrate to these next generation, optimized data centers?

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  10. What is the single biggest mistake that agencies can make in implementing their data center optimization? What is the one thing they can do to make sure it has the best chance of succeeding?

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  11. Is data center optimization for everyone? Is there ever a situation when an agency should not engage in optimization?

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  12. The Obama administration launched the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative earlier this year. How does data center optimization relate to that? If you consolidate are you, de facto, optimizing?.

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  13. What do agencies have to do with their optimization efforts to make sure they are compatible with broader mandates for such things as Service Oriented Architecture?

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  14. What are some of the emerging technologies or processes that can be leveraged for data center optimization in the federal government?

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  15. Are there any issues not central to the optimization efforts themselves that agencies should be aware of that could influence how effective those efforts will be?

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THE STAND: Date Center Optimization
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