This story comes on the heels of a NetApp survey of 143 Federal IT professionals and
systems integrators that revealed doubt among these insiders that
the government could successfully implement a consolidation plan aimed at
reducing the number of data center, which would reduce IT costs and improve
security. MeriTalk gathered these responses in May 2010 at the “1,100–How Many Federal Data
Centers Does It Take…” event in Washington, D.C.