The development of a secondary data center includes the build out of a mirrored production environment, while also serving as the recovery site for the primary data center.
Maximum protection for the State’s continuity of operations will be addressed with the near-line data backup and recovery capability at the primary data center coupled with the mirrored production workloads at the secondary data center coupled with off-site backup capabilities to the outer islands as well as the Mainland. In turn, this effectiveness requires an alignment of business continuity planning with articulated business goals.
Effective disaster recovery and business continuity planning depends on the State’s ability to identify critical processes and technologies, maintain and recover functionality after a planned or unplanned event, and balance the risks with the costs of continuity efforts.
For example, Dell provisions more than 100 percent capacity for each application so that it can split application load balancing across multiple data centers. Each application has 75 percent of required capacity in each data center—
lending each application 150 percent of its nominal capacity requirement. Not only does this load-balancing strategy translate to high-performance applications, but it also helps ensure that disaster recovery and failover capabilities are being tested every moment of every day. This way, when Dell needs to implement its disaster recovery plan, the company knows it will work because it is already part of the existing load-balancing strategy .
Table 34: Estimated Costs to Develop Secondary Data Center
Fiscal Year
Hardware Est. Leases Est. Other Est. Total Cost Pending Review
Table 35 represents the initiatives and projects for the Secondary Data Center.
Table 35: Projects and Initiatives Associated with Secondary Data Center
Fiscal Year Activity Description of Tasks
Activity FY13 Description
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Empower Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities Analysis of Alternative
(AoA) for State Owned Data Center Site
• Engage Architect Engineer
• Engage process for Site Evaluation, Site surveys, building retrofit management, permitting, etc.
• Engage appropriate Hawaiian Home Lands, as necessary
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish and Train to the Standard Engineering Design Process
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities
Activity FY15 Description
State Owned Data Center Infrastructure Design activities
• Work with Architect Engineer
• Work with Site Evaluation, Site surveys, building retrofit management, permitting, etc.
• Work with appropriate Hawaiian Home Lands, as necessary
• Complete necessary documentation and receive approval to proceed with construction
• Infrastructure design for Cage, Cable plant, Cabinets, Circuits
• Begin Construction/Retrofit
Activity FY16 Description
State Owned Data Center Construction and Design activities
• Complete Construction/Retrofit
• Issue final design and final Bills of Materials (BOMs)
• Procurement and Installation
• Foundation - Network Engineering
• Foundation - Network Security
• Foundation - Network Services Traditional - Storage
• Traditional - Physical Compute
• Traditional - Backup
• Cloud solution
• Infrastructure Testing
• Operations & Maintenance
Activity FY14 Description
Analysis of Alternative (AoA) for State Owned Data Center Site
• Engage Architect Engineer
• Engage process for Site Evaluation, Site surveys, building retrofit management, permitting, etc.
• Engage appropriate Hawaiian Home Lands, as necessary
• Submit proper documentation to DAGS
• Complete necessary documentation and receive approval to proceed with construction
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish and Train to the Standard Engineering Design Process
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities
Table 35 represents the initiatives and projects for the Secondary Data Center.
Table 35: Projects and Initiatives Associated with Secondary Data Center
Fiscal Year Activity Description of Tasks
Activity FY17 Description
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Empower Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities State Owned Data
Center O&M • Operations and Maintenance
• Load level with Primary Site
• Test Continuity of Operations
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities
Activity FY19 Description
Activity FY20 Description
Activity FY18 Description
State Owned Data
Center O&M • Operations and Maintenance
• Load level with Primary Site
• Test Continuity of Operations
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities State Owned Data
Center O&M • Operations and Maintenance
• Load level with Primary Site
• Test Continuity of Operations
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities State Owned Data
Center O&M • Operations and Maintenance
• Load level with Primary Site
• Test Continuity of Operations
Activity FY21 Description
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities State Owned Data
Center Construction and Design activities
• Define Technology Refresh Cycle for Hardware
Activity FY22–23 Description
Planning and Project
Management • Update the Risk Matrix
• Establish Business Management to handle IT procurement, contract, negotiation activities State Owned Data
Center O&M • Operations and Maintenance
• Load level with Primary Site
• Test Continuity of Operations