US Federal IT malaise: Data and application sprawl appears like the enemies of government IT efficiency.

In our data-driven world, governments or public agencies need intelligent IT infrastructures which focus on the following criteria:  flexibility and agility, scalability and seamless, secure and the end-to-end comprehensive architecture.

As part of our global commitment, Connectikpeople.co soon Retinknow®, has captured for you the results of a new report from MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT.

Entitled “Consolidation Aggravation:Tip of the Data Management Iceberg,” the study, underwritten by Actifio, reveals that by 2024, agencies will spend as much as $16.5 billion storing redundant copies of non-production data.

According to this index while Federal agencies have prioritized consolidation and transitioned to more efficient and agile cloud-based systems, 72 percent of Federal IT managers said their agency has maintained or increased their number of data centers since FDCCI launched in 2010. Only 6 percent gave their agency an “A” for consolidation efforts against FDCCI’s 2015 deadline. 

Connectikpeople.co soon Retinknow®, can also observe that, key barriers to consolidation including overall resistance, data management challenges, and data growth ,are preventing data center optimization and actually driving copy data growth,

resulting in increased storage costs.

The study found that agencies don’t necessarily have too many servers or too much space , they have too many systems creating redundant copies of data for multiple purposes. On average, more than one in four agencies utilize 50 to 88 percent of agency data storage to store copy or non-primary data, and storing these copies is costly. In fact, 27 percent of the average agency’s storage budget went toward non-primary data in 2013, and this year, agencies expect that number to grow to 31 percent. That translates to a $2.7 billion cost in 2014, a $3.1 billion cost in 2015, and as much as $16.5 billion over the next ten years. 

When asked for the top pain points associated with copy management, respondents listed regulatory requirements, culture challenges, and storage shortfalls.