DET is offering a dedicated disk storage environment in the Salt Lake City and Richfield data centers for qualified users. Storage space in this storage environment will be available for use by State agency-owned open systems (distributed) servers hosted in the Salt Lake City and Richfield data centers who meet the following guidelines and who are approved by DTS Operations Management. This secondary storage is available for applications with the following requirements:

• The data stored is NOT mission-critical
• The storage is based on the Serial ATA (SATA) disk technology
• The data is comprised fo a large amount of image data
• The storage requested must be at least one terabyte (1TB) in size
• The storage is directly attached using a single connection to the application server and requires no additional network connectivity
• The application server is located close enough to the storage device to be directly attached
• Data replication for business continuity is not required and will not be available
• It is understood that scheduled maintenance on the storage device will cause a service outage for the server duiring the maintenance window
• Support is available M-F 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.