To cut costs and enhance efficiency, many government agencies are relocating their IT operations to efficient, secure and reliable off-site data centers.

Challenge
At federal, state, and local levels, government agencies are facing mandates to improve IT efficiency and offer citizens greater transparency into their operations. Yet working toward these dual goals is causing real problems as agencies find themselves dealing with the challenge of adopting new efficiency- and transparency-enhancing technologies and practices in an era of stagnant and even shrinking budgets.

Like most businesses, government agencies are coping with growing and evolving IT needs. Today's agencies are finding themselves juggling an array of enterprise-class websites, public and private databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, and a variety of other sophisticated tools and services. Getting all of these resources to perform effectively and securely without driving costs sky high is proving to be a significant challenge for agencies of all types and sizes. To cut costs and enhance efficiency in their daily operations, many agencies are deciding to relocate their data centers to efficient, secure, and reliable off-site facilities.

Most government agencies worry about the same things as private businesses - only more so. Security, both physical and virtual, is one area where agencies have heightened needs. Government organizations are also generally held to a higher level of public transparency and accountability than most companies are and therefore require systems that are fast, flexible, secure, redundant, and verifiable.

As government agencies throw open their virtual doors to an ever-growing number of citizens, infrastructure needs are steadily climbing. Services such as streaming video, interactive forms, and live support - once interesting novelties - are now mainstream technologies. Meanwhile, larger and more complex websites, databases, analytical tools, and other demanding resources are driving the need for faster and more reliable network connections, as well as security, power, and environmental support services.

Solution
For government bodies facing soaring IT demands and constrained budgets, IO offers affordable data center services that are tailored to the particular government agency's needs. With a 100% uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA), multi-layered access controls, industrial-grade power and cooling systems, carrier-neutral network access, policy and remote support resources, IO provides a highly-reliable infrastructure for the always-on government agency.

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