Reference Architecture Program

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2018

The Reference Architecture Program (RAP) is a blue print of the data center for the future that accelerates the provisioning of IT services and applications by leveraging a common, modular infrastructure at a functional architecture level. The approach for Oakland County was the implementation of a vendor centric infrastructure including data transmission, compute and storage technologies that simplifies system management and significantly increases the speed, capacity and scalability of the core infrastructure. With an emphasis on virtualization, this infrastructure allows the county to deploy applications in an efficient and effective manner while providing the foundation for increased security and resiliency. The implemented solution better serves our citizens by providing increased data protection through the real-time replication at the data storage level providing recoverability to the last committed transaction while reducing the total cost of ownership through hardware and energy savings.