State of Hawaiʻi Colocation

Status: Completed, March 2016
Primary Contact: Bill Wrobleski (wrob@hawaii.edu), Director, Technology Infrastructure

Strategic Alignment:
21st Century Facilities

ITS Strategy:
(C) Proactively Build Capacity

Description & Benefits:
Coordinate and facilitate the colocation of State of Hawaiʻi IT server capacity from current commercial space and at-risk State of Hawaiʻi facilities. This will support overall cost savings, site diversity and increase the beneficial sharing of resources and capacity between UH and State of Hawaiʻi IT operations.

Milestones:

  • Implement State private network extension within ITC - October 2015 - Completed
  • Install and test State servers residing in standard racks - December 2015 - Completed
  • Install and test State backup mainframe - March 2016 - Completed