Shetland rolls out recovery system to boost reliability of online services

摘要

Shetland Islands Council is implementing a disaster recovery and back-up system to improve the reliability of its online services. The ￡250,000 system will help reduce costs and guarantee access to online services for citizens, said the council. The system, supplied by Esteem Systems, will ensure that staff have immediate access to vital information and that the council's secure internet payment service is available to citizens around the clock. Based on Symantec Netbackup and Sun Microsystems technology, the system has been deployed to modernise the council's IT infrastructure. The technology provides centralised management and a manual failover process to support the automated disaster recovery system at the back-up facility, which takes over in the event of a failure at the primary data site. "We are continually working to provide the best services to our citizens and we need to have the best systems in place for us to do this," said Tim Bentley, ICT security and operation manager at Shetland Islands Council.