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 that we've realized are in all three of those areas.
I'll start with telecommunications. Certainly, by consolidating the acquisition of telecommunications services for the Government of Canada we achieved a scale that got us discounts that were beyond what any individual department could achieve previously and that resulted in some savings. We've also taken an initiative to remove unused lines. When we had this big picture of what was being done across all of government, we actually found that there had been telephone lines, legacy centrex services, that had been in place for a long time. People had been provided with a mobile telephone device and the centrex lines were no longer in use or no longer needed. We're trying to move more and more public servants, wherever possible and wherever it makes sense, to a single device. It can be one of these or a land line depending on which one is needed, but we anticipate about $28 million a year in savings just in that one specific measure.
On the consolidation of data centres, we've been able to close 10 data centres already. We're on track to close about 50 legacy data centres this year. By establishing three new enterprise data centres, which are all ready now to start taking the application workload of the Government of Canada, we are able to shift workload out of legacy data centres that were running old equipment in an old space that was already deteriorating and that were not as reliable nor as efficient in its operation. We're also getting economies there.