California Department of Technology (CDT)

The California Department of Technology (CDT) data centers serve as the Tier III equivalent data centers for State, county, federal and local government entities throughout California. The state-owned Rancho Cordova data center is approximately 42,000 square feet and serves as the State’s primary production data center and a disaster recovery site for the Vacaville data center. The Vacaville data center provides approximately 7,000 square feet of leased space and serves as both a production data center and a disaster recovery site for the Rancho Cordova data center.

Tier III Data Center
The data centers are designed to Uptime Institute’s Tier III equivalent standards, and provide stable environments, enhanced security, fire suppression equipment and alarms, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with redundant generators (at uptime of 99.982%, 1.6 hours downtime per year), in a fault-tolerance design at N+1 minimum up to 2N maximum, with 72 hour power outage protection, high-speed network connectivity, and a 24x7x365 Service Desk.