Data Center Modernization

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

IT departments are under constant pressure to fulfill ever-changing business needs while also maintaining a secure, nimble, and highly available technology backbone. Maximizing investments, delivering fast and effective services, and having the ability to deploy new applications and systems rapidly are quickly becoming the new norm. As a result, the Clerk’s office partnered with VMware and Dell to modernize our data centers to ensure high availability and security for applications and data essential to support the operations of the Court and Judicial Branch. As more and more services are moved online to improve our Customer Experience, the expectation is those services are accessible 24/7/365. Additionally, with the ever-increasing threat of cyber security attacks, necessary investments in infrastructure to combat threats like ransomware are critical to ensuring continuity of operations for the Court. The Clerk of the Superior Court in Maricopa County (Clerk’s Office) completed its Data Center Modernization initiative in December of 2021. This initiative dramatically improved the technology foundation for the Clerk’s Office by investing in a fully virtualized data center with new hardware located in two separate Tier 3 data center facilities. The new data centers represent a modern, secure infrastructure, with high availability for all Clerk’s Office applications, along with vastly improved disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities that support all Clerk’s Office applications and online services. The data centers are also ‘cloud ready’ and able to support our growing utilization of cloud services.