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Executive Representatives from synergIT and Washington County Present Completion of New Emergency 911 Center

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) September 25, 2009 -- synergIT Incorporated, a leader in Information Technology services presented at VMworld - 2009 in San Francisco the firm's ground-breaking renovation of Washington County's Emergency 911 call center and datacenter leveraging VMware's high availability virtual technology solutions. At the prestigious worldwide event, synergIT took center stage presenting the firm's project management and implementation role in completing one the most important Emergency Management projects in the state of Pennsylvania.

Operating from Washington, PA in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington County's Emergency 911 call center handles approximately 1,000 calls per day and is responsible for dispatching all Public Safety departments including Fire, Police and Hazmat on a 7x24 basis. With a growing population of over 200,000 residents, a new casino and several major interstates traversing the County, public safety incidents are magnified with the increased volume of traffic and development. Technologies like VMware played an important role in ensuring the day-to-day operations of the 911 call center were not affected. The capabilities of VMware provided synergIT the framework to perform the hardware and physical building upgrades while 911 operators were handling real-time emergency situations. Virtualization benefits are now being realized by the Center across several key areas including business continuance (the ability of the center to survive planned and unplanned outages through system and site level redundancies), increased efficiencies in system maintenance and reduced operating costs.

According to Mr. Bob Walker, Director of Enterprise Services at synergIT and the firm's featured speaker at VMworld - 2009, the challenges were many, but feasibl
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