CHARLESTON, S.C. - SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic unveiled a new data center that will play a key role in consolidating more than 100 Navy data centers to increase effectiveness and efficiency to reduce costs while still meeting the Navy's security and operational requirements.
The Department of the Navy’s Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen and Dave Weddel, assistant deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, were keynote speakers at the ribbon cutting event. Both officials explained how the center fits into the Navy’s future plans.
“This data center will be part of the Navy’s data center consolidation effort. Not only is this data center efficient, it’s Green--that is another big piece of what we want to do. We need to protect the environment and the resources that we have. This data center will help us do that” said Halvorsen, who is the Navy’s senior official on matters related to information management, information technology/cyberspace and information resources management. He is also the Department of the Navy’s lead for IT/cyberspace efficiency.
“We are here today to support the sailors and marines underway and in harm’s way. The demand for IT efficiencies and demand for efficiencies at large across our Navy are increasing. Through facilities like this and efforts like this we are able to not only increase our IT efficiencies and reduce our spending in IT, but also build up a core of quality professionals, diverse IT professionals, that can man, manage, and engineer such a facility and maintain it” said Weddel.
Construction began on the 20,220-square-foot facility on Joint Base Charleston-Weapons Station Oct. 15, 2010 and was recently completed. The $9.498 million data center was designed to the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design silver rating standard.
The Navy’s data center consolidation initiative will provide cost savings due to reductions in physical locations, power and data center management contracts.