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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
State Hands IT Systems to New UH Tech Center
By News Release @ 2:38 PM :: 4958 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Higher Education

UH Information Technology Center to house portion of state’s IT systems

From UH News March 15, 2016

Governor David Y. Ige and University of Hawaiʻi President David Lassner signed an agreement that leverages the 2-year-old UH Information Technology Center to reduce risks associated with some of the state’s IT systems while saving taxpayer dollars.

Under the agreement between the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, led by state Chief Information Officer Todd Nacapuy and the university’s Information Technology Services, led by UH Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Garret T. Yoshimi, some IT systems currently housed at that state’s primary data center in the downtown Kalanimoku Building will immediately begin migrating to the UH IT Center to the extent possible to provide resilient backup. The agreement outlines a rate structure under which ETS will remunerate the university for its costs each year, including a “true up” based on actual expenses from the previous year.

“I applaud our executive branch and University of Hawaiʻi teams for working together on this mutually beneficial and cost-effective solution to meet our state’s immediate data center needs,” said Ige.

Supporting the state

Lassner noted that “The state has had IT facilities challenges for years, so when we were requesting state funding for the new IT Center we made clear our willingness to support other state programs as well. We are pleased to now welcome these state systems into vacant space in our LEED Gold data center facility.”

“By leveraging the UH data center, we are able to address some of our most critical systems while reducing duplicative spending, including costs associated with designing, building, maintaining, powering and staffing an entirely new data center,” said the state’s Chief Information Officer Todd Nacapuy. “This agreement represents an annual cost avoidance that’s easily in the millions.”

The Kalanimoku data center has long been known as an aging facility with many components requiring refurbishment and upgrades. Furthermore, the building is less than ideal due to its location close to shore, the lack of power redundancy and distribution and insufficient cooling and antiquated fire suppression.

Physical security, access and reliability were key factors in identifying the UH IT Center as a viable site. The UH facility already maintains a secure environment with protocols in place for authorized personnel that are provided access and the UH IT Center’s data center is designed to operate through an extended power outage without any problems. In addition, the university agrees to put in place processes and procedures necessary for some state departments’ compliance obligations, such as those required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Justice Information Services and personally identifiable information standards.

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