Entries Tagged as 'consolidation'
by Andrea Di Maio | September 17, 2012 | Comments Off
A few days ago the acting administrator of the US General Services Administration addressed the Senate announcing further consolidation activities for budget, technology and human resource management. In particular GSA will better manage information technology investment, systems development and maintenance, and increase access to agency data by consolidating all IT personnel, budgets, and systems under [...]
Category: cloud IT management shared services in government Tags: consolidation, GSA
by Andrea Di Maio | March 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I spent the whole day with government clients in a European country where there is an aggressive plan to consolidate infrastructure across several departments. This is one of the many data center consolidation programs that are going on around the world in all tiers of government. Some of them are quite aggressive and are [...]
Category: cloud IT management Tags: consolidation, shared services
by Andrea Di Maio | November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
I am getting close to the end of the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast and a few conversations with clients have been about shared services and consolidation. Australia has quite a tradition with shared services, as many states have implemented and run shared services for quite a few years. Today many governments around the world [...]
Category: cloud shared services in government Tags: consolidation, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | October 4, 2010 | 5 Comments
Over the last two weeks I have been visiting Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden, meeting a fair amount of clients in each country. With the notable exception of Sweden, almost all conversations revolved around the need for cost savings, something I have touched upon in a previous post. The other common theme [...]
Category: Europe and IT Tags: consolidation, shared services
by Andrea Di Maio | October 1, 2010 | 6 Comments
As reported by Information Week, the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law to improve the state’s IT infrastructure and make it less expensive. the law aims at stronger project oversight, increased transparency in spending, greater cost savings, energy usage reduction and further services consolidation. It strengthens the former Department of Technology Services, [...]
Category: e-government Tags: CIO, consolidation, shared services
by Andrea Di Maio | July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
During my very interesting visit to Japan I had a chance to visit the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), which is responsible – among other things – of the Japanese government cloud initiative, nicknamed Kasumigaseki Cloud. They presented a relatively sound strategy based on building a Government Shared Platform as a result of [...]
Category: cloud Tags: consolidation, Japan
by Andrea Di Maio | December 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
Over the last several years we have witnessed a move towards greater consolidation and centralization of IT assets and IT-intensive processes across several jurisdictions. Some of these have taken the form of true shared services, where different government organizations use and jointly manage those assets, while others have moved more decisively toward sheer centralization, where [...]
Category: cloud shared services in government Tags: consolidation, government cloud
by Andrea Di Maio | July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
In a discussion with several people from an agency in a US jurisdiction, I was asked whether cloud computing can help IT consolidation. Digging a bit, I found out that this jurisdiction is consolidating data centers across different departments and – as far as I can tell – the process is still on-going. The jurisdiction [...]
Category: cloud Tags: consolidation, shared services
