Pulaski County officials are taking steps to keep the county’s data secure. IT Director Matt Voltz told the county commissioners last week he’s looking at buying a new backup device.
He said the county’s current system is “kind of duct-taped together.” “Right now, we’re using two network-attached storage devices,” he explained. “They’re big servers. They have 20 terabytes of data space on them. They’re both full. Basically, what we do is we just copy everything from the servers onto one and it’s in the basement of the jail, and then every night it copies over to another one that’s in the annex. It’s just straight file copy. There’s no security checks.”
He wants to replace it with a Unitrends backup device. “This system I’ve worked with before,” Voltz said. “It’s one of the top-of-the-line systems. It’ll do everything we need, from disaster recovery to data archiving. We can set legal holds, in case some kind of legal issue occurs, and we need to make sure our backups don’t go anywhere.”
Voltz said he would like to buy the equipment in January, so it would be paid out of next year’s budget. But the commissioners were concerned with the $25,000 cost of the hardware, along with $7,000 a year for support. The commissioners asked Voltz to get quotes for similar products from other companies, before they make a decision.
