State and local governments find that optimized data centers can help them take advantage of essential technologies such as cloud, mobility and Big Data.
When Oklahoma began its data center consolidation in 2011, each of the state’s more than 170 agencies had been procuring its own IT infrastructure. “We had 129 different email systems and 30 data center and computer room locations,’” says Dustin Crossfield, Oklahoma director of technology services for the Information Services Division of the state’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES). “We had agencies with one email deployment on the first floor and another on the second floor.”
