White House CIO’s first 40 days included ‘worst day’ ever

I had no idea that the White House’s IT situation was this bad just 3 years ago:

“When it was all said and done, in the first 40 days of the administration we were down 23% of the time,” said [CIO] Colangelo.

Over 82% of the White House’s technology had reached end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives…

The White House CIO office had one data center, said Colangelo. “We had no redundancy,” he said.

Apparently the obsolescence spurred a “technology revolution” that has since remedied and improved the IT situation greatly.