Inside the FDCCI: Service Delivery

The FDCCI goals are to shrink the overall energy and real estate footprint; reduce the cost of hardware, software and operations; increase government’s overall IT security posture; and shift IT investments to more efficient platforms and technologies. This vast scope includes closing roughly 1,200 data centers by 2015 with projected savings of more than $5 billion over the long term. Its success will remove redundancies and increase utilization to deliver more computing power while lessening the impact on the environment.

Service Delivery: Maintaining service delivery windows while undergoing a data center consolidation initiative can be a tough balancing act. Concerns of meeting service delivery requirements remain at the forefront. As more information is sent over an already taxed infrastructure, transmission times associated with critical operational and service level agreements are jeopardized. And, the “do more with less” mantra certainly won’t support upgrades and investments to improve performance. Once again, compression is a viable solution. Today’s most economical solution houses multiple files in a single container and applies lossless compression while using formats that support movement and management of data seamlessly across platforms. End-to-end transmission times can be reduced by as much as 60% with compressed data while decreasing the number of transmissions and potential for failure.