Disaster Recovery Data Center
The University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC-GA), which administers
governance and manages selected system wide information technology (IT) resources for the sixteen campuses of the University of North Carolina system, is seeking dual disaster recovery (DR) facilities that can support the UNC systems' data backup and disaster recovery functions. The charge is to consolidate sixteen (16) UNC campuses IT disaster
recovery requirements as much as practical, so that data backup and other disaster recovery functions can be provided remotely from the campuses. The solution would include arrangements for recovering multiple application data sets (Banner, PeopleSoft, and other ERPs), various course management systems, data warehouses, critical data systems, various e-mail systems so that any campus can have a hot or warm site provisioned as needed. The primary goal is to ensure the continuity of critical business processes while ensuring high availability and resilience.
The dual data centers shall reside on the current statewide UNC data network known as the North
Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) with managed services provided by one vendor. The data center facilities shall be capable of addressing the complexity of systems throughout the 16 campuses infrastructure, providing data backup and restore capabilities, security, and remote access. The data center facilities shall be activated and
operational following the declaration of a disaster that disables one or more primary campus facilities. The data center facilities shall provide the capability for implementing various ERP system infrastructures; other identified critical
applications/systems, and remote access to these primary applications. Only production processing (no development)will take place at the DR sites.
