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The Secretary of Technology and its agencies are responsible for the efficient and effective use of information technology to simplify government operations, advance technology applications to improve public services, and drive the innovation economy through the Commonwealth's leadership.

The Secretary of Technology oversees two agencies: Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA).

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Governor McDonnell Announces Independent Review of Recent State Computer Issues
Governor Bob McDonnell announced further steps to be taken to address the unprecedented hardware failure and subsequent data corruption that has affected certain state agencies during the past week.  The Administration, together with the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC), will commission an independent review of the information system failures and contractor response that has impacted 13% of the Commonwealth's executive branch file servers and 26 of 89 applicable executive branch agencies.
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VITA Recovery Efforts Move Towards Completion
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency continues to make progress in returning all state agencies to normal operating conditions in the wake of the recent disruption in service caused by the failure of a major data storage system.  The initial failure affected 26 of the Commonwealth's 89 agencies and caused 13 percent of the Commonwealth's storage servers to stop working. 
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Statement from Virginia Secretary of Technology Jim Duffey
On Wednesday, August 25, at approximately 3 p.m., the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced an information technology (IT) infrastructure outage that affected 27 of the Commonwealth's 89 agencies and caused 13 percent of the Commonwealth's file servers to fail. The failure was in the equipment used for data storage, commonly known as a storage area network (SAN). Specifically, the SAN that failed was an EMC DMX-3.
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