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Obama Appoints VMware CIO Tony Scott as Next US CIO

President Barack Obama has appointed VMware CIO Tony Scott to be the next US CIO — the top federal government IT role. The position was created in 2009, and the first White House CIO was Vivek Kundra, who kicked off the current Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative and started a lot of other major efforts to overhaul the way government buys and consumes IT. Continue reading

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Survey: IT Workers Not Confident in Federal Data Center Reliability

Data center reliability is a top federal agency priority, but a recent survey by MeriTalk found that government IT workers don’t have too much confidence in federal data center uptime. Continue reading

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