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Orange County Information Technologies Strategic Plan <br />• Flexibility to move County operations to and from <br />various locations in the event of an emergency <br />• Ability to share data across departments and locations, <br />previously only supported through cumbersome and <br />time-consuming manual data transfer <br />• Overall increase in Internet access, access to state <br />systems and other systems beyond the user's current <br />physical location <br />• Ability to centralize server equipment, thus increasing <br />our ability to protect equipment from intrusion, disaster <br />and environmental hazards <br />• Ability to leverage centralized data backup methods, <br />thus increasing data retention for archival information <br />Orange County has pressing needs for further network <br />upgrades. Specifically: <br />Public Works <br />the current network connection to the Public Works facility <br />is Frame Relay. Support of their equipment is problematic <br />due to environmental conditions. Their servers are <br />susceptible to lightening strikes and power outages far <br />more often than the more vigilantly protected central <br />server facility Also, without high speed fiber, we cannot <br />deploy an enterprise SQL server to run their applications <br />with other SQL applications, thus saving costs, increasing <br />reliability and freeing up IT resources to reduce the need <br />for additional positions in IT <br />Wireless Access Points <br />The increased use of mobile technology has provided <br />significant efficiencies for many Orange County <br />departments. However, the lack of reliable network <br />connectivity from the field finds the County not fully able <br />to realize the benefits of this technology. Many field <br />workers currently gather information in the field and <br />upload back into County servers when they return to the <br />17 <br />Page 16 of 25 12/1/2008 <br />