NO MORE HICCUPS: Density line server being installed at the Guntur Municipal Corporation. — Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

GUNTUR: Greater Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporations had a bad experience of losing its entire electronic data leading to stalling of services for some period due damage in the servers as they did not have cluster solutions.

Guntur Municipal Corporation has become the first local body in Andhra Pradesh to have this `Cluster Solution' where real time back up of the data is taken to a different location and work does not get stalled even for a few seconds. Density Line Server of Hewlett Packard has been installed and is in the process of getting commissioned by month-end.

Taking the lead

The entire revenue collection, birth and death certificates of erstwhile Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation got stalled in 2002 for 10 days and in 2003 Guntur Municipal Corporation sent a proposal for getting the Clustering Solution with a Network Area Storage facility with live back-up at a remote place that meets the international standards.

The GMC proposal was sent to the Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for Poor in 2003, which in turn was routed to the Centre for Good Governance in the State Government. The CGG found the proposal very useful and sanctioned Rs.23 lakhs for the project in January 2007, Municipal Commissioner D. Rama Rao told The Hindu. The GMC has invested Rs.4.9 crores in that. This will be the first such facility in the State for any local body, he added.

It has a series of 140 Gigabyte SATA removable hard disks with a 3.2 Giga hertz processing speed capacity and a 2 Gigabyte Random Access Memory (RAM) and two units separately store the operating system and data, which makes work faster and in case of failure of one unit the other takes over at wink of an eye, which the users do not come to know, said data processing officers S.N. Prasad and V. Venkata Ramaiah.

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