Recovery, Restoration, and Business Continuity for the State of Hawaii

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Recovery, Restoration, and Business Continuity
for the State of Hawaii

• Les Nakamura
  Dept of Accounting and General
  Services
• Information and Communication Services Division
• December 8, 2005

2
Current Business Environment

• State Government is highly dependent on its data
  center operations.
• Vulnerability - Loss of data center operations.
• Manual workarounds.

3
Got Backup?

• Common misconception data backup and storage
  meets disaster recovery needs.
• Disaster-Backup-Recovery-Restoration.
• Off-site storage.
• Data vault.

4
Improving Data Center Survivability

• Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
• Emergency Power Generator
• Data recovery
• Restoration of processing capabilities

5
States Strategy

• Establish second data center as permanent
  solution to recovery and restore processing
  capabilities.
• Establish interim solution.
• Operations control center.

6
Current Project Status

• Disaster Recovery site study
• Seeking funding

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Challenges

• Funding
• Local vs mainland/offshore
• Own vs rent
• Data confidentiality and privacy
• Recovery work centers for business continuity

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• MAHALO NUI LOA!