{"id":300454,"date":"2019-02-19T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=300454"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:24:51","slug":"department-of-labour-systems-to-go-offline-as-it-relocates-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/300454\/department-of-labour-systems-to-go-offline-as-it-relocates-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Labour systems to go offline as it relocates data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Labour (DOL) has announced that its information and communications technology and related services will be offline from 21-24 February.<\/p>\n

The DOL said that the move will have an impact on its operations and service delivery at all of its labour centres nationally.<\/p>\n

All systems will be shut down from 16:00 on the 20 February to prepare for the relocation. This means that no business systems including Umehluko, Siyaya and ESSA will be available, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The Department has signed a contract with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to house the new datacentre in a state of the art facility in Midrand.”<\/p>\n

“The ICT Unit has already commenced with refreshing the outdated server and storage infrastructure, with further hardware refresh planned for after the relocation,” it said.<\/p>\n

Once the planned relocation is completed, it is envisaged that all systems will be available from 25 February 2019.<\/p>\n

The Department said that it hopes that the relocation of the datacentre, will bring about improved efficiencies through new infrastructure, faster connectivity, improved uptime, reliability and stability of systems.<\/p>\n

Other benefits include enhanced physical security, audit compliance and additional redundancies including reliable facilities and backup power.<\/p>\n

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