This year T5 Data Centers announced L.A. County would be migrating its data center operations to the company's T5@LA data center. The leased location will become the county's Enterprise Data Center.
L.A. County's proposed 2017-18 fiscal year budget includes significant expenditures for the new data center.
Source: L.A. County
The spending will include "facility, utilities, network and computing infrastructure, security, and designated recovery sites. This new funding model will reduce costs to user departments for data center services," the budget proposal says.
The county also is making "enterprise network upgrades, telephone replacements, enterprise IT initiatives, a portal migration and more," the budget says.
Here are strategic initiatives for 2017-18 from L.A. County:
— Continue working with the Chief Executive Office on moving the current Downey Data Center to a new leased data center facility, which will become the County’s EDC [Enterprise Data Center] to facilitate countywide data center consolidation over the next five years.
— Plan and implement a new Enterprise Network design in support of the new EDC.
— Continue to work to replace obsolete Private Branch Exchange telephone systems (67,000 users) and Centrex systems (58,000 phones) with voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) due to planned obsolescence in 2020.
L.A. County hired Gartner to study the county's enterprise data center environment. In 2015, Gartner issued a report that found the county had its main Downey data center and 48 other data centers spread across various departments, with a total of more than 67,000 square feet of floor space combined. The study presented a range of options for consolidation.
