ITS Heartland 2012 Annual Meeting Kansas City, MO Presented by Todd Cushing, Olsson Associates

1. What can ITS learn
from
Data Centers?
Todd Cushing

2. Internet vs. Enterprise
Different audit issues
Different risk avoidance
Different end user expectations
Different scale

3. Private vs. Public
Different end user expectations
Different scale
Different Uptime Requirements
Different Response Time Requirements

4. Server Location
Purpose
Built
Continuous
operation/
expansion
Efficient
Location
Use of All
Matters
Resources

5. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost,
Total Cost of Greenfield,
Logistics,
Ownership Brownfield,
Physical,
Powered Shell
Political
Commodity Latency
Power, Water, Number of Competition
People, Providers,
Logistics Paths

6. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost,
Total Cost of Greenfield,
Logistics,
Ownership Brownfield,
Physical,
Powered Shell
Political
Commodity Latency
Power, Water, Number of Competition
People, Providers,
Logistics Paths

7. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost,
Total Cost of Greenfield,
Logistics,
Ownership Brownfield,
Privacy,
Powered Shell
Political
Commodity Latency
Power, Water, Number of Competition
People, Providers,
Logistics Paths

8. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost, Response
Total Cost of
Logistics, Time,
Ownership
Privacy, Staff to
Political Support
Commodity Latency
Power, Water, Number of Competition
People, Providers,
Logistics Paths

9. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost, Response
Total Cost of
Logistics, Time,
Ownership
Privacy, Staff to
Political Support
Commodity Latency
Number of Competition
Power, Water,
Providers,
Ringtone
Paths

10. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost, Response
Total Cost of
Logistics, Time,
Ownership
Privacy, Staff to
Political Support
Commodity Latency
Voice, Competition
Power, Water,
Data,
Ringtone
HD Video

11. Typical Key Site Factors
$$$ Risk Timing
Cost, Response
Total Cost of
Logistics, Time,
Ownership
Privacy, Staff to
Political Support
Commodity Latency
Voice, Standards
Power, Water,
Data,
Ringtone
HD Video

12. Considerations
Server
Location
Server Data
Virtualization Backups
Who has
State-Owned
access to
vs.
your hardware
Outsourced
and software?

13. Considerations
Professional grade location?
Backup power?
Server Intentional cooling?
Location Multiple telecom paths?
Facility maintenance plan?
Hardware and software refresh
and maintenance

14. Considerations
Semi-synchronous
Data Asynchronous
Backups Disruptive
Concurrent
Geographics of backup data

15. Considerations
Who has Public vs. private
access to License cost
your Risk
hardware and Control and accountability
software? Security

16. Considerations
Control of hardware and software
Control of data
Cost vs. quality
Capital investment vs. recurring
State-Owned cost
vs. Administration of the contract
Outsourced Response time for changes
Negotiate your cost for
scalability
What services do you need?
Bandwidth

17. Considerations
Space considerations
Backup considerations
Server Complexity considerations
Virtualization Turning up new capacity quickly
You have more control of your
cost (operating system and
applications)

18. Questions?
Todd Cushing Steve Ingracia
402.938.2430 402.540.0560
tcushing@ singracia@
oaconsulting.com oaconsulting.com