South Korea's Data Center Consolidation Model Saves Government $60M

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The South Korean goverment has consolidated the data centers of government agencies and provided an integrated management system for those IT resources, resulting in nearly $60 million in cost savings.

News of the consolidation efforts come as the US government continues its own consolidation plans, with 472 data centers expected to be closed by 2012, and 962 data centers by 2015.

The government created the Korean National Computing & Information Agency six years ago to support government IT consolidation efforts as well as to export the Korean Government Integrated Data Center model.

In the UN's 2010 e-Government survey, Korea was ranked the NCIA's efforts above 191 other countries in government IT accomplishments.

The NCIA's Government Cloud Computing Service plans to move 50 percent of the central government computing services from their existing data center infrastructure to the G Cloud as well as increase their open source software adoption rate up to 40 percent. The process should reduce the country's operational costs by 30 percent.

Meanwhile, smaller governments have turned to Korea's consolidation model in hopes that they can also duplicate this success with their own data center infrastructure.

Source: http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/123011_South_Koreas_Data_Center_Consolidation_Model_Saves_Government_60M