Cloud takes backup role as cities remake data centers
July 21, 2014
Grazed from GCN. Author: John Moore.
With pressure on government to streamline IT operations to control costs and spur performance, a growing number of city IT managers are pursuing the latest hardware architectures and tools to renovate their legacy data centers. But while the emphasis on physical devices may seem like a hardware renaissance, the cloud is still very much a part of data center overhauls.
In such cases, agencies are using cloud in a backup role, a resource that soaks up spikes in data center workload or as a disaster recovery utility. The city of Asheville, N.C. , for example, found that traditional disaster recovery involved a high, fixed capital expense. As a consequence, city’s budget only supported disaster recovery plans for applications it absolutely needed to protect – enterprise resource planning (ERP), for example, said Jonathan Feldman, Asheville’s CIO…
Plus, the protection for the application, exists only two blocks away from the city’s main data center. “I have been trying to jockey the funds to get our disaster recovery center farther away,” said Feldman, who joined the city nine years ago…
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