2024.07.19. The Fair Economy — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 18th that its Data Center has completed the selection and contracting process for the '2024 Information Resource Integration Project' worth 30 billion won and will begin full-scale cloud-based information resource construction.
Since 2008, the city has been carrying out the 'Information Resource Integration Project' in which the Data Center efficiently redesigns and integrates 'information resources' needed for new information system construction and replacement of aging equipment that each department previously pursued individually, saving about 2 billion won annually.
This year, the city plans to build new servers, storage, network, and information security equipment—418 units in total (277 hardware units and 141 system software units)—by the end of the year. These resources are required for new business systems across 30 projects in 25 departments and the replacement of aging equipment in 24 departments.
The city plans to focus on building cloud-based information resource infrastructure and continuously expand resource utilization and disaster response capabilities.
In line with the recent trend of spreading cloud technology, Seoul is prioritizing "cloud-based expansion" to enhance information resource utilization, improve fault response, and strengthen service continuity. The city plans to build and provide stable information resources based on the cloud, except in unavoidable cases due to system-specific characteristics.
In addition, it plans to build a cloud environment based on open source from domestic small and medium-sized enterprises and expand its application from next year to establish a leading model for public sector cloud services.
Meanwhile, it will promote the expansion of disaster recovery (DR) systems, including cloud-based remote duplication between the Seocho and Sangam data centers for four major information systems, to prepare for disasters and emergencies at a higher level.
The city plans to continuously expand the remote duplication system for important systems by utilizing the mutual backup system and disaster recovery network between the two data centers in Seocho and Sangam.
While most information systems are duplicated across the two centers, the city is expanding DR systems to remote locations for critical systems to address the issue that continuous service cannot be provided if one center experiences a disaster or emergency.
This year, the city plans to build remote duplication for four critical systems closely related to citizens' lives, including flood prevention, snow removal, tax, and civil complaint services, and will configure the information resources used for disaster recovery entirely on a cloud-based basis to minimize resource waste and service downtime.
The new construction includes three types: flood prevention, online civil complaint application, and snow removal site management systems, and one type is the cloud-based reconstruction of the comprehensive tax system.
The city plans to continue to systematize important information systems closely related to citizens' lives and essential for administrative work into cloud-based remote duplication.
Furthermore, to safely protect cloud-based information resources, the city plans to strengthen information security by reinforcing equipment for firewalls, network linkage, and defense against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Park Jin-yeong, Director of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Digital City Bureau, said, "By expanding cloud-based infrastructure through the Information Resource Integration Project, we will not only improve the utilization rate and fault response capability of information resources but also actively strive to ensure citizens can feel safe and secure even during disasters and calamities by providing continuous critical services."
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