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January 12, 2010
•Case Study: Florida Department Of Education Builds Technology Infrastructure For Disaster And Day-To-Day Operational Recovery
By InMage
The Florida Department of Education (DOE) serves as the single repository of education data from school districts, community colleges, universities and independent post-secondary institutions throughout the state. In addition to tracking student performance across varying education sectors, the DOE supplies more than 2.6 million students, 3,800 public schools, and 318,000 full-time staff with the necessary support and services, and serves more than 180,000 teachers in the state.
The Challenge: Build a Recovery Infrastructure that Protects Against Natural Disasters and Eliminates Cost Ineffi ciencies
The DOE is primarily responsible for the statistical analysis and funding activities of 67 school districts within the state of Florida. For over 30 years, the department's Education Data Center (EDC) has been a repository of collected and analyzed statistical-based data about students, staff, test scores, facilities, buses and more.
"Our proximity to the Gulf of Mexico put us at high risk of hurricane exposure," says Ted Duncan, Bureau Chief, Education Data Center. "Although we haven't been hit by a hurricane recently, we do have experience with the damage they cause. In 1984, Hurricane Kate came through Tallahassee and took out power for a week and a half. Our building is rated to withstand a Category One hurricane. If a Category Two or higher hurricane came through, our data center would not survive. In an instant, our education system could lose years' worth of critical data. We needed a stronger disaster recovery plan that would protect our data and allow us to be back online in minutes or hours, instead of weeks or months."
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