Salt Lake County Recorder Prepares for Disaster

SIRE Technologies, Inc.
11/08/2005

Salt Lake County Recorder uses SIRE to protect the land records of county residents.

Salt Lake City, UT— AlphaCorp, Inc. announced today that the Salt Lake Recorder’s Office has implemented a disaster recovery program utilizing AlphaCorp’s SIRE Solution to guard against records and data losses and help ensure business continuation in the event of natural or man-made disasters in Utah.

The Salt Lake County Recorder is responsible for the land record - nearly ten million documents that tell the history and establish ownership of more than 300,000 parcels of land in Salt Lake County. If a natural or man-made disaster were to strike Utah, and even if a portion of these records were lost, the results to Salt Lake County property owners could be catastrophic.

To implement his disaster recovery program, Gary Ott, Salt Lake Recorder partnered with AlphaCorp, a Utah-based document management company that has been handling the county’s document management needs for nearly a decade. Using AlphaCorp’s SIRE, electronic copies of every document in the Recorder’s office are automatically backed up nightly to a redundant system stored in a "co-locate" facility located elsewhere.

"Our disaster recovery plans were on paper even before hurricane Katrina," Ott said."However, this year’s hurricane season punctuated the need to implement our plan expeditiously. Too much is at stake to risk being caught unprepared.”

"The result of a flood, earthquake, fire or even a terrorist attack can be devastating to a state, county or city record system if it is not properly supported,”said Kris Painter at AlphaCorp, Inc. " The Salt Lake County Recorder has demonstrated leadership in taking the steps necessary to protect their records. Our SIRE system not only protects the volumes of records stored in government offices such as deeds, trusts, business and marriage licenses, parcel information, and council meeting minutes, but it also helps government continue business operations by utilizing a co-locate facility. Through this facility, we duplicate the entire Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) that copies the documents and even the workflow, allowing the County Recorder’s office to access the entire system securely from a Web browser—enabling them to resume almost all business functions immediately following a disaster.”

The redundant computer servers are protected against everything from bio-hazards, power outages, and extreme temperatures to floods and hackers. Yet, secure and authenticated access to the redundant system is accessed by the Recorder’s office via an Internet connection.

"If and when disaster strikes Salt Lake County, access to government records will be an essential element in putting lives back together,” Ott said. "With SIRE in place, the Salt Lake County Recorder’s Office is prepared.”

About SIRE Technologies, Inc.

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