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From Mainframes to the Cloud: A History of Federal Data Centers

January 15, 2014

Remember mainframe computers? Named for the large metal frames they were originally housed in, these data processing systems are still in use today, though they now consist of networked workstations and servers instead of room-sized, walk-in computers. For more than 100 years, the federal government has had an interest in data centers, and the earliest ones were quite costly and bulky.

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