CTS Quarterly CustomerMeeting

CTS Disaster Recovery (DR) Project

October 22, 2014

Agenda

• Definitions• CTS DR Current State• CTS DR Upcoming Enhancements• CTS DR Project

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COOP and DRDefinitions

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COOP / DR

• Continuity of Operations Plan • Guided by FEMA established policies, definitions and assumptions that

form the framework for emergency preparedness.• Includes the activities ensuring that essential functions which enable

agencies to provide vital services, exercise civil authority, maintain the safety and well being of the general populace, and sustain the industrial/economic based in an emergency are performed.

• Disaster Recovery Plan (DR)• Recovery of information technology assets, data, and services required

to support critical business functions

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Note: Backup/Recovery are different from Disaster Recovery

Business Impact Analysis

• When creating Disaster Recovery Plans, agencies identify their critical systems and document the operational, legal, and financial impact from a disruption or disaster affecting any computer or telecommunication service area of the agency.

• We are asking that Agencies work with CTS to collaborate regarding critical systems which are dependent on CTS systems.

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Disaster Recovery Terms

• When planning for recovery, agencies identify RTO and RPO for their systems.– A recovery time objective (RTO) is the period within which systems,

processes, services, or functions must be recovered after an outage. – A recovery point objective (RPO) is more specific to information

systems. It is the amount of data that can be lost measured by a time index.

• Agencies should work with CTS to collaborate regarding recovery objectives that are dependent on CTS systems.

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DR Site and Data Replication Terms

– DR Site Options/Methodologies• Hot (space, equipment, and data already present - only minor

configurations changes needed)• Warm (space and equipment is in place but typically has to be

built/configured/data restored)• Cold (space reserved with no equipment)

– Data Replication Options/Methodologies:• Active/Active (synchronous)• Active/Passive (asynchronous)• Restoration from backup

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CTS Disaster Recovery

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CTS Services with DR - Current State

Eastern United States:•IBM and Unisys Mainframes, TSM, DES Print

Eastern WA Node Site:• Shared Services Email (Exchange, Virus Protection, Filtering, Secure Email)

• Enterprise Active Directory (Active Directory Federated Services, Domain Controllers)

• Domain Name Services (DNS) (Hosted in Oregon)

• Security Services (Secure Access Washington®; Secure File Transfer; SSL VPN)

• Redundant SGN Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Liberty Lake, WA (TierPoint):•Customer disaster recovery equipment

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CTS DR Upcoming Enhancements• Avamar and VTL Projects

– TSM Service (for physical tape backups) is sunsetting and will be replaced by Avamar (virtual backups)

– Mainframe Virtual Tape Library will expand to eliminate need for physical tapes

• CTS’ Private Cloud– Roadmap includes DR• Load Balancing• Mobile Device Management– Implementing a Software as a Service (SaaS) Solution

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CTS Disaster RecoveryProject

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DR Project Background

• DR Site Survey Project Findings•No government-owned data center in Eastern Washington met the

requirements and/or allowed sufficient room for expansion to meet CTS needs

•Existing Spokane Node DR site not a suitable long term DR Facility•TierPoint contract was nearing end of life•Decision was made to secure a contract with a Vendor to provide

colocation data center services.

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DR Project Status• Scope

Identify Requirements for a single site DR location Develop and publish RFP for DR site procurement

Released 7/29/14. Review and select appropriate site Responses were received 9/4/14. Announcement planned for 9/26/14. • Build out core Network and Security Infrastructure• Move existing CTS DR services to new DR colocation data center.• Define CTS’ future DR roadmap• Implement and expand DR in a phased approach• Establish new CTS DR service offering

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DR Colocation Site ASV

• Sabey Data Center Properties, LLC– Over 3 million square feet of data center space– Close to 2 million square feet of data center space in Washington

• Quincy, Wenatchee, and Seattle

• Sabey’s DC in Quincy was selected – 525,000 square feet of data center space– Concurrently maintainable facility– 70 megawatts of power– Security personnel on site 24/7– Dedicated Office and Storage Space available

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High Level DR Site Requirements• Some of the requirements include:• Within the State of Washington and east of the Pacific Crest Trail• Service Availability of 99.982%• Vendor background checks• HIPPA Business Associates Agreement compliance• NIST 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

compliance• ANSI/TIA-942 A-1 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Center compliance• 24/7 hours of operational and physical access• Vendor provided enclosures• Concurrently Maintainable Facility (facilities components can be shutdown w/o disruption)• Technician Support Services (remote/smart hands)• Dedicated office space and equipment storage space• Staff facilities during declared disaster

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DR Timeline Through June 2015

Questions

Mark QuimbyDR Architect

Consolidated Technology Services

mark.quimby@cts.wa.gov

(360) 407-8830

Heidi BrownellChief Project and Planning Officer

Consolidated Technology Services

heidi.brownell@cts.wa.gov

(360) 407-8980

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