Annual report 2003-2004, Department of Corporate and Information Services
Department of Corporate and Information Services annual report 2003 - 2004
Northern Territory. Department of Corporate and Information Services
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2004-10-14
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Northern Territory. Department of Corporate and Information Services -- Periodical
Northern Territory Government
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Department of Corporate and Information Services annual report; Annual report
2003/2004
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Information Technology Services 54 Midrange Services Outcome: Clients critical business systems are processing in a computing environment that is flexible, reliable and secure, with high levels of access and availability Midrange Services is a product line of Data Centre Services, a Government Business Division, and provides server management, operating system administration and database administration services for many NT Government business application servers. Estimates 2003/04 Actual Key Performance Indicators Original Revised 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 Timeliness Back ups completed prior to commencement of next business day 100% - 99.9% 99.9% 99.9% Performance report for mid range services to clients each month - days <10 - 85% 85% Quantity Number of servers managed 60 71 723 56 39 Number of oracle databases supported 30 27 26 27 26 Quality Customer satisfaction >75% - 79% 79% 66% Number of unplanned outages per month 3 4 4.42 2.67 2.25 Price Price Average per Oracle data base pa $30096 $28790 $29898 $31680 $35028 Price to manage server on average pa $24312 $19084 $200511 $28740 $33816 Price per megabyte SAN utilised $0.02 - $0.0162 $0.02 $0.02 1. The reduction in the average price per annum to manage server is primarily due to the increase in servers without employing any additional staff. The flexible, reliable and secure environment builds confidence with our customers increasing demand on the service. The improved economies of scale are contributing towards cost effective service delivery. 2. The cost of storage dropped by approximately 20% due to the purchasing of an upgrade to the SAN infrastructure. The upgrade was to meet client demand for storage, which is improving our economies of scale. 3. The increase is due to agencies deploying more applications on midrange servers and having Midrange Services manage them. Performance Highlights A new type of server architecture was implemented during the year, which allowed the building of several, so called virtual servers on a single piece of server hardware. This has introduced savings in server management overheads and hosting costs. Data Centre Services will be pursuing this architecture further in the future, reducing the number of physical servers installed. There has been an increase in the number of servers hosted in the Data Centre from 136 in June 2003 to 172 in June 2004. The provision of a secure environment with fail-safe systems and 24 x 7 monitoring is recognised as a valued service by our customers for their key business systems. Security of the facility was further enhanced after isolation caging was installed in the Data Centre to provide enhanced physical security for high security servers.