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Local government consolidates infrastructure to the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform to support and protect mission critical 911 applications
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The IT department for the City of Arvada needed to update its Computer Aided Dispatch and Record Management System (CAD/RMS), a critical application that drives dispatching and logging for the emergency 911 services and police employees working around the city. The existing system was running on Cisco Blade servers connected to a Dell Compellent SAN, and this configuration was becoming too expensive to augment and maintain effectively. The department looked for an affordable, efficient, reliable, and easily manageable solution that would enable the IT staff to maintain the high-end levels of service expected by the city staff. They also needed to improve their disaster recovery capabilities.
About The Customer
The City of Arvada is a local city government in the Western United States. The IT department for the City of Arvada recently partnered with the city’s internal staff and all of its departments to deliver efficient and effective information services in order to enable the departments to provide key services to the citizens and community. A small, dedicated staff of 29 provides technology management for all city departments, including the police department, city-owned websites, financial management systems, and many other business systems.
The Solution
The city government evaluated SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform—its globally federated, hyperconverged IT infrastructure solution—and found that it met their needs better than any other solution on the market. OmniCube provided the storage that the city needed for all of its new virtual machines with a smaller data center footprint, lower costs, easier management, and faster roll-out than its management as well as faster roll-out than traditional or alternative “hyperconverged” solutions. In addition, OmniCube’s “data-center-in-a-box” methodology provided advanced disaster recovery capabilities. It provided the ability to quickly test DR, enabling the security to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster, a comfort level that was previously unavailable with their legacy technology. The city government, and its IT staff, installed two OmniCube CN-3000s in the city’s production environment and two redundant OmniCube CN-3000s in its backup data center.
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