1. Recovery, Restoration, and Business Continuity for the State of Hawaii
Les Nakamura Dept of Accounting and General Services
Information and Communication Services Division
December 8, 2005

2. Current Business Environment
State Government is highly dependent on its data center operations.
Vulnerability - Loss of data center operations.
Manual workarounds.

3. Got Backup?
Common misconception: data backup and storage meets disaster recovery needs.
Disaster-Backup-Recovery-Restoration.
Off-site storage.
Data vault.

4. Improving Data Center Survivability
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Emergency Power Generator
Data recovery
Restoration of processing capabilities

5. State’s Strategy
Establish second data center as permanent solution to recovery and restore processing capabilities.
Establish interim solution.
Operations control center.

6. Current Project Status
Disaster Recovery site study
Seeking funding

7. Challenges Funding Local vs mainland/offshore Own vs rent
Data confidentiality and privacy
Recovery work centers for business continuity

8. MAHALO NUI LOA!