Data Center

Data Centers are facilities that house and protect critical IT equipment supporting delivery of government services including the space, power, environment controls, racks, cabling and external labor. 

We distinguish between Agency Data Centers, and the State Data Centers because by statute we are directed to migrate TO the State Data Center and away from Agency Data Centers.

State Data Centers include:

The Olympia-based State Data Center (SDC) operated by Consolidated Technology Services (CTS)
The Quincy-based Disaster Recovery Services Data Center leased by CTS.
Other Facilities such as Computer rooms and MDF/IDF/telco closets that house IT equipment primarily supporting local building operations in corporate headquarters, call centers or other general purpose office buildings.

NOTE: This definition is used in the TBM program and also reside in Standard 113.30: TBM Taxonomy.

Topic
EA: Data Architecture
EA: Infrastructure Architecture
Technology Business Management