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<br /> <br />generators and that’s kind of, it’s not, I don’t know that will be our permanent home, but <br />it’s a really good place right now. <br /> <br />Ms. Kelly: In Hilo? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: In Hilo. <br /> <br />Ms. Kelly: And Kona, too? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: We have some in Kona, there’s a nice server in Kona at the West <br />Hawai‘i Civic Center. It’s also on backup generator as well and we have one maybe two <br />servers there right now, but we are looking to move additional servers there be a <br />backup to the exchange server there as soon as we’re done with implementation so if <br />we lose this one here that one spins up and operates. Our phones actually already do <br />that if we lost the connection, the fiber connection between here and West Hawai‘i, we <br />would lose the communications with Scott, is that your name? <br /> <br />Mr. Mitchell: John. <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: John. Scott was in there earlier, sorry. We would lose, we’d lose <br />that connection but you would still be able to make and receive telephone calls because <br />there’s a backup phone system over there that allows it to work. So we’re, we’re <br />looking at ways to try to leverage that connection and that’s where that extra internet <br />connection will help us with that as well and then you know will start doing some <br />backup. A lot of it is the cost and space issue, there’s only so much space over there. <br />There’s the cost of you know how many redundant servers can you afford. So we pick <br />and choose those carefully. <br /> <br />Ms. Kelly: So you’re saying because of the growth and what’s happening there <br />should definitely be two IT centers, West and East? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: I don’t know if there should be two IT centers or a data center. <br /> <br />Ms. Kelly: Data center? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: That maybe, we’re actually looking at who is it, System Metrics is <br />setting up a data center in Kona. They took over I guess one of the old west, the old <br />Hawaiian Tel data centers and they’re refitting it. I haven’t spoken to them yet, but a <br />concept would, be would that be a better solution for the County to have a vendor <br />whose primary business is maintaining a data center and locating the data in that <br />location. So there are a number of things we can look at, we’re also looking at working <br />with the State, they want to put up their own state level data cloud and to do that they <br />need locations on each island where they can put a rack of equipment and we’ve had <br />some discussions with them I said you know I’ll give you rack space in West Hawai‘i, <br />can I have some server space so that I can have some of my stuff live in the cloud and <br />we’re looking into that as an option as well. That gives us a backup in case something <br />happened on this side. It’s a moving target. The technologies change so much. The <br />cloud we’re still a little nervous about not so much on the State level because the <br />State’s maintaining that, but I would be nervous about putting County technologies in <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />