Case Study: Travis County achieves secure, cost-effective, scalable, disaster-resilient IT infrastructure with CyrusOne

County Government Selects Colocation For Expanding IT Infrastructure

Travis County, Texas — the state’s fifth-largest county serving about 1.1 million residents — faced a critical IT challenge: a cramped, aging basement data center prone to flooding, water damage and infrastructure strain, with insufficient room for growth and difficulty meeting CJIS security standards. The county relied on roughly 190 applications for courts, public safety, tax and social services, so any outage threatened core government operations.

Travis County migrated its critical systems to CyrusOne’s Austin data centers using a cost-effective colocation model. CyrusOne provided disaster-hardened facilities, redundant dual power feeds with on-site generators and UPS, advanced fire detection, multi-layered physical security and carrier‑neutral, dual‑feed connectivity, while optimizing footprint layout to free up growth space. The move delivered improved compliance capabilities, higher reliability (100% uptime service level), reduced operational risk and lower overall cost compared with building and operating a county-owned data center.

Travis County

Walter LaGrone

IT Operations Director