Fri, Dec 03, 2010
TechTrend, IBM Partnership Wins Business Worth $6.3
Million
The FAA has awarded a $ 6.3 million contract to TechTrend for
contractor support to assist FAA in planning, implementing, and
monitoring the Data Center Consolidation Initiative(DCCI).
TechTrend is partnered with IBM on this strategic, three-year
initiative. This datacenter consolidation effort is part of a
mandate from Office of Management & Budget (OMB) to federal
departments and agencies to identify existing datacenter assets and
formulate plans to consolidate them.
The plans will take into account best practices from the public
and private sector to promote the following:
- Reduction in hardware, software and operational costs.
- Focus on improving the overall IT security posture of
government systems and environment.
- Reduction of energy consumption by leveraging "green IT"
concepts.
- Migrate IT investment to more efficient computing platforms and
technologies.
The TechTrend-IBM team will focus on applying industry best
practices on data consolidation to help FAA meet OMB mandates,
while ensuring smooth operations of all systems. The contract
covers one base year with two one-year options.
"This team is especially well suited to develop and support the
DCCI requirements," said Kunal Suryavanshi, Account Leader for
IBM's Global Business Services. "TechTrend is a small business well
known for innovation at the FAA, and IBM provides world renowned
technology and skill in green data center development. Together we
provide the FAA with methodologies and technologies that will
assist them in the design and monitoring of a cost-effective and
efficient data center consolidation."
The TechTrend-IBM team stands committed to ensuring that the FAA
Datacenter Consolidation Initiative is a success by ensuring that
the lessons learned and past experience deploying cloud-computing,
virtualization and other application migration approaches are
brought to bear for this critical effort.
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