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Success Story
King County Creates Shared
Infrastructure on FlexPod with
Microsoft Private Cloud and
Saves $700,000 Annually
Customer Profile
Located on Puget Sound in the state
of Washington and covering 2,134
square miles, King County is nearly
twice as large as the average county in
the United States. With more than 1.9
million people, it also ranks as the 14th
most populous county in the nation.
of Washington and covering 2,134
square miles, King County is nearly
twice as large as the average county in
the United States. With more than 1.9
million people, it also ranks as the 14th
most populous county in the nation.
The Challenge
Taming a complex, decentralized
environment
In King County, information technology
(IT) consolidation and standardization
are a high priority. From the executive
branch to public health and defense to
the Department of Transportation and
Parks and Recreation, the county takes
a decentralized approach to deploying
systems and delivering services. This
has resulted in numerous duplicate
efforts and dozens of departments
handling IT and maintaining disparate
server environments or virtualized envi-
ronments on their own. The resulting
mismatched technology standards and
redundant efforts ultimately increased
overhead and made inefficient use of
taxpayer dollars.
(IT) consolidation and standardization
are a high priority. From the executive
branch to public health and defense to
the Department of Transportation and
Parks and Recreation, the county takes
a decentralized approach to deploying
systems and delivering services. This
has resulted in numerous duplicate
efforts and dozens of departments
handling IT and maintaining disparate
server environments or virtualized envi-
ronments on their own. The resulting
mismatched technology standards and
redundant efforts ultimately increased
overhead and made inefficient use of
taxpayer dollars.
When Chief Information Officer Bill
Kehoe joined the county, he saw an
opportunity to make the transition to a
Kehoe joined the county, he saw an
opportunity to make the transition to a
secure, shared cloud environment that
would be far more efficient. His vision
was to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) private cloud that could be shared
among departments, yet managed
centrally by King County Information
Technology (KCIT) from the county’s
state-of-the-art data center hosted at
Sabey Corporation in Seattle. Because
the infrastructure would be shared, King
County would need to offer ultra-secure
multi-tenancy so that information such
as police records, for example, would
not be visible to unauthorized person-
nel in other departments.
would be far more efficient. His vision
was to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) private cloud that could be shared
among departments, yet managed
centrally by King County Information
Technology (KCIT) from the county’s
state-of-the-art data center hosted at
Sabey Corporation in Seattle. Because
the infrastructure would be shared, King
County would need to offer ultra-secure
multi-tenancy so that information such
as police records, for example, would
not be visible to unauthorized person-
nel in other departments.
Moving to a shared, service-oriented
architecture
The overall business goal was to deliver
county services to residents with greater
speed and efficiency and enhance
back-office functions using what would
be called the standard virtualized environ-
ment, or SVE. Kehoe’s solution was to
offer an IaaS platform to his customers—
the many departments countywide with
diverse missions—that would be not only
more cost effective but also more secure,
offer higher availability and reliability, and
simplify management.
county services to residents with greater
speed and efficiency and enhance
back-office functions using what would
be called the standard virtualized environ-
ment, or SVE. Kehoe’s solution was to
offer an IaaS platform to his customers—
the many departments countywide with
diverse missions—that would be not only
more cost effective but also more secure,
offer higher availability and reliability, and
simplify management.
“Much like our counterparts in the pri-
vate sector, we are looking to provide
vate sector, we are looking to provide
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Industry
County government
County government
The Challenge
• Migrate departments to a stan-
• Migrate departments to a stan-
dard, virtualized environment
that is more cost-effective,
secure, and reliable
that is more cost-effective,
secure, and reliable
• Improve and enhance service
delivery to citizens
The Solution
Build shared infrastructure on the
FlexPod
Build shared infrastructure on the
FlexPod
®
platform, the unified,
prevalidated data center solution
from NetApp and Cisco integrated
with Microsoft Private Cloud
technology based on Windows
Server
from NetApp and Cisco integrated
with Microsoft Private Cloud
technology based on Windows
Server
®
and System Center.
Benefits
• Consolidated from the county’s
• Consolidated from the county’s
48 data centers to 2, saving
over $700,000 annually
over $700,000 annually
• Reduced the size of the overall
storage environment by 70%
• Enabled rapid scalability and
provisioning for new potential
sources of revenue for the
county
sources of revenue for the
county
• Maximized the value of data
center resources, thereby
improving value for taxpayers
improving value for taxpayers
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