The General Services Administration is looking to help agencies meet data center consolidation challenges under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act by adding 10 hyperconverged infrastructure solutions to its IT Schedule 70 contract.
“The new cloud infrastructure solutions are another example of category management in action,” said Kay Ely, assistant commissioner of GSA’s Office of Information Technology Category. “Agencies have the option to purchase HCI as a hardware and software bundle or software only at very competitive prices.”
The Army has seen some success in hyperconverged infrastructure, which combines the server and storage hardware into more compact, multipurpose boxes, shrinking the rack and lowering energy costs.
