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Senators push for state technology command center

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Honolulu – Senators Donovan Dela Cruz and Michelle Kidani this session have proposed a resolution calling for the state to establish a public safety technology campus and cyber security command center in order to ensure access to public safety services during a natural disaster.

The resolution asks the Department of Accounting and General Service and the Chief Information Officer to look into developing a plan to relocate public safety facilities located within and nearby inundation zones to a centralized non-inundation zone area that will provide direct access to highways and be in convenient proximity to hospital and military services assistance. It also recommends changes to the current organization of Hawaii’s data centers, which are not fulfilling the capacity, reliability and security needs of various departments.

“Our public safety facilities are old and located in inundation zones. We need to upgrade these facilities and move them to a central location that doesn’t run the risk of flooding,” said Sen. Dela Cruz. “During a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina and Sandy, the way our public safety facilities are established now, critical systems could be unavailable for months.”

“Hawaii’s current data center environment, comprised of 30 low quality data centers, is poorly secured, monitored and completely unstaffed 65 percent of the time exposing the state to major physical and cyber security breaches,” added Kidani. “We have to do better with our technology infrastructure and build a permanent data center for heightened data security.”

Recommended as a prime location for a new, consolidated public safety technology campus and cyber security command center facility is 150 acres of land for sale in central Oahu. The lands provide geographic diversity, being far enough from the coastline and in close proximity to major highways.

The data command center would include 8,000 to 10,000 square feet for a computer room with 250 racks, an electric power load of two megawatts for information technology equipment, and a tier 3 reliability rating. Ten acres would be dedicated for an innovation and research facility, 40 acres for a sheriff facility, and an unspecified number of acres for facilities housing city, state and federal public safety agencies.

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