Information Technology is a central service organization that provides county departments with professional staff and technical resources necessary to meet their individual missions with computer, communication and administrative services.
IT provides technical oversight in the procurement, development and maintenance process for software and hardware systems for County departments. IT also coordinates county-wide computer networking and telephone systems. The Office Services group provides county departments with high speed copying and mail services.
Wireless Information Technology Infrastructure Initiative
For the latest information about the Lackawanna County Wireless Initiative click on the banner below or type ww2.lackawannacounty.org/wireless in your favorite browser.
For information on becoming a customer or co-sponsoring a public Wi-Fi hotspot in your park or recreation area email [email protected] or call 570-963-6743.
County Goes Virtual -Virtualization Technology, an INNOVATIVE IDEA- Lackawanna County has virtualized 80 of
its servers and now over 200 computer desktops with the total growing every day.So what is virtualization? Virtualization is
a computer environment, which allows multiple “virtual computers” or “virtual servers” to reside and run concurrently on a single server blade residing in a blade center. Each blade can hold many “virtual computers” and “virtual servers”.A virtual machine is similar to a physical machine, only without the hardware. Each individual “virtual machine” has its own set of virtual hardware. The virtual operating system detects a controlled, consistent group of hardware regardless of the tangible hardware components.With virtualization, there is no more need to purchase another physical server or computer, and adding “virtual machines” is as easy as the click of a few keys.
Why virtualization? The answer is simple; cost savings, consolidation, decreased power consumption, simplified disaster recovery, easy to manage computers throughout the County, quicker and easier to create new desktops and servers, the ability to capture (take a snapshot) the entire state of a “virtual machine” and rollback to that configuration, easy replication of scenarios for troubleshooting issues, increased CPU utilization from 5-15% to 60-80%, the ability to run Windows, Solaris, Linux, Unix, or any other operating systems and applications concurrently on the same blade server, and the list goes on.
Administrative Contacts
Mike Brown Acting Chief Information Officer Phone: 570-963-6743 x 1469 Fax: 570-963-6705 E-mail: [email protected] |
Location
Lackawanna County Government Center
123 Wyoming Avenue, Suite 540
Scranton, PA 18503
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