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Audit of NARA's Data Center Consolidation Initiative

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number
12-09
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0

Recommendations

The Executive for Information Services/CIO should update the Master System List and/or the Enterprise Architecture to incorporate realistic estimates of funding needed or savings to be realized from implementing NARA’s data center consolidation goals.

The Executive for Information Services/CIO should update the Master System List and/or the Enterprise Architecture to incorporate Energy usage calculations.

The Executive for Information Services/CIO should update the Master System List and/or the Enterprise Architecture to incorporate annual savings metrics such as rack count reduction, server count reduction, energy usage reduction, and energy cost...

The CIO should conduct the consolidation/virtualization analysis to investigate the impact of consolidating or virtualizing two major application domains (NISP and ERA) and the General Support System (NARANET) as planned, or evaluate other alternatives...

The Executive for Business Support Services should evaluate the current organization of rack space and determine whether servers can be consolidated into fewer racks when considering space optimization, power consumption, operations management, and...