U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed 2012 Federal budget included proposals to improve the inefficiencies in government data centers. The budget outlines the adoption of cloud-computing and virtualization technologies to lower IT spending costs and increase agility.

“In the proposed budget, planned spending on IT is expected to reach $79.5 billion, up 2 percent from 2010 enacted levels of $78.0 billion. This modest increase is actually better than we had expected — we expected a cut,” Barclays Capital said in a note to clients.

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