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Data Center Information

The Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) fulfilled the data center requirements of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) which sunset at the end of the fiscal year 2022.

*Data gets updated based on selected Agency
 
Download: DCOI Strategic Plan (JSON)

Summary

All agencies - Cumulative Data from Q4 2016 until Q4 2022

Data Center Cost Savings
$4,904.7M
Closed Tiered Data Centers
736
Open Data Centers
1470
Total KMF
1143
Total Tiered
327
Download: Summary Source Data - Cumulative (CSV)
The Data Center Optimization Initiative memo M-16-19 was implemented for Q4 2016 and was replaced by M-19-19 and M-21-05. Per M-19-19, as of Q1 2019, OMB no longer tracks closures and optimization metrics for non-tiered facilities. Additionally, agencies can classify tiered data centers as Key Mission Facilities (KMF), which are not subject to the same closure targets and may be exempted from optimization metrics.

All agencies - For the Year 2022

Data Center Cost Savings

Achieved1
$0.0(0.0%)
Annual Planned2
$314.3

Closed Data Centers

Achieved3
0 (0.0%)
Annual Planned2
734
Data Source: 1DCOI IDC Cost Savings 2DCOI Strategic Plan 3DCOI IDC Inventory
Download: Summary Source Data - For the Year 2022 (CSV)
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Data Centers Over Time

Download: Closures Over Time Source Data (CSV)

Data Center Cost Savings - Planned Vs Achieved

Download: Cost Savings Source Data (CSV)
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Optimization Metrics

Agencies are encouraged to reduce application, system, and database inventories to essential enterprise levels by increasing the use of virtualization to enable pooling of storage, network and computer resources, and dynamic allocation on-demand. There are 4 key metrics, namely Virtualization, Energy Metering, Availability, and Underutilized Servers. More information can be found in the FAQ page.

Virtualization

Data center virtualization includes virtualizing physical servers in a data center facility, as well as storage, networks and other infrastructure devices and equipment. The DCOI metric is the number of servers and mainframes.
28.51%
Virtual Hosts
35,150
Cloud Instances
14,434
Servers
123,169
Download: Virtualization Source Data (CSV)

Energy Metering

Energy-use data can help you track long-term trends, benchmark progress and performance, perform diagnostics, and alert data center operators to impending or ongoing system failures.
27.84%
Have Metering
309
Total Facilities
1,110
Download: Energy Metering Source Data (CSV)

Availability

Availability is reported in DCOI in terms of the planned hours of availability for each data center, as well as any unplanned outages for that data center over the reporting period, also measured in hours.
99.965%Uptime
Unplanned Downtime Hours
772
Total Hours
2,213,977
Download: Availability Source Data (CSV)

Underutilized Servers

Server utilization is the percentage of time during which the server is busy processing jobs during a simulation. The DCOI metric is measured by the number of underutilized production servers in each data center
1.17%
Underutilized
1,444
Total Servers
123,169
Download: Underutilized Servers Source Data (CSV)