Web Applications and Functional Business / Data Recovery Scott Nicewarner, IT Manager City of Hagerstown, Maryland

Agenda Hagerstown IT Strategic Plan Web Application Development Functional Recovery Plans for “New Legacy Systems” Developing Partnerships......

City of Hagerstown IT Strategic Plan First Plan Developed for the City. Focus on Migrating HP3000 Legacy systems to LINUX environment. Internet / Intranet based application access. Citizen – Centric Design Create a “High Availability” Government Portal Emphasis on Data Recovery / Business Continuity

Web Application Development New Legacy Platform One Database Structure High Availability Seamless integration Bandwidth Control Security Issues

High Availability Web Applications Availability of IT resources at all times during core business operation times. Business Drivers in Government. Service Level Requirement Business Continuity Improve Revenue Collection Improve government effectiveness Other Factors: Many components in various languages. Multiple machines Different database forms Multiple scripting languages

Functional Recovery Needs Not the typical disaster recovery situation. Systems continually susceptible to multitude of outage scenarios. Minimal downtime a requirement. Basic revenue-accepting functions a priority. Minimal budget / maximum need. Resource constraint

Developing Partnerships.... Functional Recovery sites. Shared Resources Among Municipalities including storage / transport. Real-time Data Synchronization / Replication Cost / benefit True Distributed Data Archiving. Manageability

Conclusion Four Questions That Could Save Your Company  What essential service must survive failure?  What affect will failure have on the company?  What changes in architecture, processes and requirements can improve survivability?  Which changes offer the best payoff?

Web Applications and Functional Business / Data Recovery Scott Nicewarner, IT Manager City of Hagerstown, Maryland