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Finding 8 - Coggle Diagram
Finding 8
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Hitachi WMS-100 and an associated server was set up as a DFS (distributed file system) mirror of the primary file server located at the City Hall datacenter, replicating it to the secondary datacenter located at the Police Department
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Microsoft’s DFS solution can be further leveraged to provide automatic “business continuance” access to this data in the event of failure
ITT has added a second DFS server at the Police Department datacenter to accommodate additional server mirroring. This server was re-deployed using existing server assets
TT will also relocate the Hitachi AMS-200 unit, which currently resides at the City Hall Data Center, to the police datacenter to provide additional data storage capacity
Recommendation
The Hitachi SAN units at the City Hall data center and the SFPD are at the end of their five year asset life. At end of life they will no longer be supported by either the hardware or software vendor
ITT management needs to assess how best to move forward to ensure the increasingly important redundant backup of its non-financial data.
Response
Management’s Response
ITT has added a second DFS server at the Police Department datacenter to accommodate additional server mirroring. This server was re-deployed using existing server assets
TT will also relocate the Hitachi AMS-200 unit, which currently resides at the City Hall Data Center, to the police datacenter to provide additional data storage capacity
Placing the existing Hitachi SAN equipment back under maintenance will be considered as part of the cost-benefit analysis that will take place at the conclusion of the network and organizational assessment.
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what?
File server backup is not occurring on non-financial data such as email, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Share Drive documents
Condition
The Hitachi SAN purchased in 2007 was intended to provide file server backup of non-financial data. The SAN was found to be non-functioning during the course of this audit
Criteria
File server backup of non-financial data such as email, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Share Drive documents needs to occur for disaster recovery purposes
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