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NetApp and Microsoft have teamed up to implement a virtualised data storage solution to enable a single, multi-agency portal for bushfire information for the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE).
The consolidated data storage solution allows
Victoria’s Integrated Emergency Control Centre and Incident Control
Centres across the state to directly post mission-critical information
to the portal in real time, enhancing situational and community
awareness and improving the safety of public and emergency services
workers.
The DSE Fire Information Systems Group, in conjunction with NetApp and
Microsoft, upgraded the Department’s “Fireweb” application, which was
previously running on legacy fibre channel SAN and many physical
servers, but is now running on an environment based on the virtualised
NetApp Data OnTAP storage operating system and Microsoft Hyper-V
software.
The DSE is responsible for managing 7.6 million hectares of public land
across Victoria, which represents approximately one-third of the state,
and is chartered with reducing the risk of fire, containing outbreaks
and managing environmental effects caused by fire.
DSE’s manager, fire information systems group, Anthony Griffiths, said
“to ensure that we can effectively manage the risk of fire, we required
our previous, complex system architecture to be simplified and become
more highly available. The new system had to support key information
services such as real-time telemetry from critical assets like
aircraft, and make that information available quickly and efficiently
across our multiple application services.
“Implementing the NetApp solution allows us to recover from major
system failures in minutes. Past failures have taken at least eight
hours to recover our data, and often longer, but now we can restore
instantly. We can also support multi tenancy and share critical data
to multiple agencies and the public in a secure manner without complex
point solutions.”
According to Griffiths, using NetApp’s SnapMirror and Snapshot features
to rapidly mirror data between sites using very low WAN bandwidth,
coupled with primary storage de-duplication, “provides us with a very
low TCO solution that delivers the availability and performance we need
while ensuring our ICT is more environmentally sustainable. The
storage overhaul also provided a holistic view of the environment and
single point of management.”
David Bass
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