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Orange County Information Technologies Strategic Plan <br />• Network security from intruders <br />• Disaster planning in coordination with EMS and other <br />departments <br />• Identifying, cost justifying and eliminating single points <br />of failure in critical systems and articulating needs to <br />decision makers <br />• Exploring arrangements with peer governments and <br />private sector vendors for restoring essential services <br />and data on temporary equipment <br />The OCIT organization will work with the. Emergency <br />Management organization to develop a Business Continuity <br />and Disaster Recovery Plan. This plan must cover short term <br />crises that temporarily interrupt the County's access to <br />computing resources, as well as long-term interruptions to <br />County facilities requiring relocation of County operations. <br />CURRENT STATE <br />Network <br />Approximately two thirds of our network is high speed <br />fiber (100Mb) while the remaining third is a combination <br />of Frame Relay, DSL, Cable and some dialup. The high <br />speed portions of our network enable centralization of <br />servers, which in turn provides economies of scale for <br />environmental protection, centralized backups, security <br />and maintenance. There is a clear trend of reliability <br />where we have been able to take advantage of <br />centralization. <br />Servers <br />Our servers are a combination of Dell, IBM and Compaq <br />hardware, depending on the vintage of procurement. <br />These servers are configured to a variety of operating <br />systems, including Windows, a legacy AIX server and <br />two Linux servers. The average age of servers is <br />approximately 3 years, with a few critical servers <br />~;7 <br />Page 7 of 25 12/1/2008 <br />