Decision details

To invest in building a Disaster Recovery Technical Capability.
As Oldham Council and it's subsidiaries become more Digital there is a growing need for a Disaster Recovery Capability. This would allow for critical systems to be made available shortly after a disaster occurring that affects the Council's datacentre. This paper recommends a value for money DR solution that would enable service areas to improve their Business Continuity Plans.

RESOLVED - That:
To allocate £100000 from the ICT Capital Programme to fund enabling the service and to embed £70000 of revenue for future years.

Option 1 - Do nothing and accept the risk of a disaster causing a protracted outage with service areas relying on manual processes for their BCPs.
Option 2 - Fund the enablement and Agresso hosting costs from the ICT Capital Fund (£100k). The first year revenue cost will be met from within the compliance revenue budget with the ongoing cost to be found from within existing resources.
Option 3 -Build a provision in an alternative, suitable data centre and create the Disaster Recovery Service ourselves. This would be significantly more expensive.

Option 1 - Do nothing and accept the risk of a disaster causing a protracted outage with service areas relying on manual processes for their BCPs.
Option 3 -Build a provision in an alternative, suitable data centre and create the Disaster Recovery Service ourselves. This would be significantly more expensive.

Cllr Jabbar
Helen Lockwood
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