In late June, the Office of Management and Budget finalized updates to the government’s Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) policy, laying out the Trump administration’s technical tweaks to a policy first promulgated in the Obama era.
As Nextgov reports, the updated policy “establishes new consolidation and optimization metrics — and additional reporting requirements — for federal agencies,” and it bans the creation of new data centers or significant expansion of existing ones. The policy also redirects agencies to optimize “larger dedicated data centers,” since “agencies have seen little real savings from the consolidation of non-tiered facilities, small server closets, telecom closets, individual print and file servers, and single computers acting as servers.”
The DCOI policy also calls for agencies to continue the push into automated data center monitoring and optimization. It specifically encourages agencies to use Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools.
DCIM software gives agencies the ability to automate the monitoring of data center performance, especially power consumption and cooling, so that they can more effectively decide how to construct and operate their data centers.
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