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The DC¹ empowers Los Angeles County departments with immediate access to technologies, applications and data.

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Tomorrow's Technology for Today's Applications

Centralized management of a secure and stable IT environment lets County departments build a custom IT infrastructure.

The DC¹ helps County departments make informed decisions, safeguard critical data and provide better service to the public.

Empowering Departments Enriching Lives

DATACENTER1

The NEW Los Angeles County DATACENTER1 provides a unified next-generation technical environment that allows County departments to create a custom IT infrastructure.

The DC¹ gives departments instant access to the hardware, software and data they need to make more informed decisions, deploy resources where they will be most effective and provide better service to the public.

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UPTIME

The DC¹ achieves lower costs and faster delivery of resources with on-demand capacity and services that support the County’s ever growing information management needs.

Websites

Databases

Virtual Servers

FACILITY SPECS

Building Capacity

181,489 square feet with 53,000 square feet raised

Tier III-plus design

Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing

Seismic Reinforcement

Hardened building exceeds all current seismic requirements (importance factor of 1.5)

Utility Power Capacity

15.9 megawatts, Critical IT load of 7,400 kilowatts (expandable to 15,900 kilowatts)

Onsite Power Substation

Dedicated substation delivers wholesale power at 20-30% savings

Power Density

120-200+ watts per square feet

DC Power Capacity

Two 800amp 48VDC systems configured as N + 1

Generator Power Capacity

6 2.25 MW diesel generators and 3 2 MW building generators

Environmental Efficiency

LEED Silver Certification

Cooling Redundancy

Indirect evaporative cooling drives low Power Usage Effectiveness to lower costs and save water

ISO 20000 Certification

TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY TODAY

HOLISTIC ARCHITECURE

Centralized Automation
Software Flexibility + Hardware Scalability
Rapid Systems Integration with Customization of:
- Network services
- Security
- Monitoring
- Management
- Orchestration
- Visibility of physical and virtual network

COMMON MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

Reduced application deployment time
Optimized for physical and virtual applications
Environment for “Application Anywhere”
Multi-tenancy
Consistent security policy
Open and programmable with comprehensive set of API’s

AUTOMATION LAYER

Single-pane infrastructure management

Automate and orchestrate IT infrastructure with physical and virtual resources treated equally.

Policy-based infrastructure provisioning

Role and policy based, so subject-matter experts work together to define policies and practices once.

End-to-end infrastructure process automation

Orchestrate the steps to prepare networking, computing and storage resources to support applications.

Complete infrastructure lifecycle management

Reclaim time and resources to make better use of IT investments.

HYBRID CLOUD LAYER

Highly secure, open and flexible

Enables complete freedom in workload placement between private Data Center and public clouds.

County security and access controls

Ensures the same network security, quality of service and access control policies in the public cloud that have been enforced in the Data Center.

Extend existing data center to public clouds as needed

Connect on-premises data center infrastructure to multiple service providers.

Take advantage of pay-as-you-grow capacity

Achieve lower costs and faster delivery of resources.

The DC¹ is a next generation data center designed around a hybrid cloud environment, providing Los Angeles County departments to move workloads seamlessly between the County eCloud and off-premise data centers in the public cloud.

The Los Angeles County DATACENTER1 gives departments with state-of-the-art data analysis tools that provide the information they need to make decisions about strategic directions, resource allocation and service provision while protecting the security of public data through hardened security protocols.

DC¹ NEWS

Grand Opening of DC1

Grand Opening of DC1 https://dc1.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/server-room-1024x677.jpg 1024 677 Data Center Data Center //dc1.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/dc.logo_.2.seal_.png May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017

On May 24th, County departmental Chief Information Officers (CIOs) will be treated to a special “sneak peek” of the DC1 at the Grand Opening of the new unified Los Angeles…

DC1 Boasts Silver LEED Certification

DC1 Boasts Silver LEED Certification https://dc1.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LEED.jpg 1000 667 Data Center Data Center //dc1.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/dc.logo_.2.seal_.png April 22, 2017 May 17, 2017

The new DC1, unified Data Center for the County of Los Angeles is located in an advanced facility that has earned a Silver LEED certification. LEED, or Leadership in Energy…