Government Operations committee  The only comment I would make is that the actual software component of the $660 million is about $100 million. That initial consolidation of only the software procurement, there is still an initial benefit from that, but you shouldn't be measuring the benefit against $660 million

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. Essentially, what's happening in the shift from 485 data centres to seven or fewer is that power consumption becomes much more dense, but the use of that power becomes incredibly more efficient. I can't tell you in kilotons, but

Government Operations committee  I think it would be easy to understand that it's not only cybersecurity, but for 485 data centres you also need to have physical security. You need to have security personnel for all of those locations. Obviously, cybersecurity becomes easier when there are fewer data centres to

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. The $10.8 million being requested by Shared Services Canada this year is to set up the infrastructure needed. Our role in the census program is to provide the telecommunications infrastructure, as well as the data processing and storage infrastructur

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, but I don't think I am the person to answer that.

Government Operations committee  The work is already in progress. We have begun setting up the core infrastructure at our data processing development centre to make sure it will work. We expect the production infrastructure to be in place by mid-2015. Delivering all the infrastructure needed for a census is a

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. Mr. Chair, we have essentially been given the mandate initially in three areas, e-mail, data centres and telecommunications, and then subsequently in the workplace technologies or the end-user device space. Some of the savings and economies

Government Operations committee  Absolutely.

Government Operations committee  Thank you again for the question, Mr. Chair. Six years is for the full transformation. Obviously, there will be benefits that won't be realized until the end of the transformation process, but establishment of our security operation centre was an absolute priority. We went from

Government Operations committee  The transformation plan that has been created as part of the way Shared Services Canada was created and is executing, is essentially a self-funded transformation plan. Essentially, the appropriations were transferred from all 43 partners through Shared Services Canada. There was

Government Operations committee  Thank you again for the question, Mr. Chair. I can't provide any details of specific requests that we've made around additional security, obviously. We do look at analytics on what is going on and can provide recommendations and advice. So far, we are working within our allocate

Government Operations committee  Thank you again for that question, Mr. Chair. Actually, this will significantly improve the security posture of the Government of Canada. I'd like to talk about two aspects of that. One, managing a diverse set of over 50 silo networks currently provides a lot of access points t

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. The plan for all of our transformation program is from now until 2020, so it is a long-term plan to consolidate. You asked most specifically about networks.