“With around 22 million active user accounts, ELSTER is the most successful eGovernment process in Germany and the digital flagship of our tax administration – made in Bavaria! In order to ensure continuous, trouble-free functionality for citizens, ELSTER’s reliability and reliability are our top priority. With the new ELSTER location at our partner noris network AG in Aschheim, we are protecting ourselves as best as possible against conceivable regional failure scenarios in the future. The setup during ongoing operations was a mammoth project for those involved: around 350 servers had to be set up, wired and put into operation. I am delighted to be able to officially open the ELSTER location today after 1.5 years of construction and renovation work,” emphasized Finance and Home Affairs Minister Albert Füracker at the commissioning on Tuesday (3 September) in Aschheim together with the President of the Bavarian State Office for Taxes, Paul König, and the Board of Directors of noris network AG, Joachim Astel.
Paul König, President of the Bavarian State Tax Office: “Our new location in Aschheim is another important step towards the availability of ELSTER and the beginning of a forward-looking partnership between business and administration.”
Joachim Astel, CEO of noris network AG: “We are proud that we, as a Bavarian IT service provider, were able to convince ELSTER with our highly secure, modern and sustainably operated data center in Munich East! ‘Mia san sicher'”
Since 2007, Bavaria has been operating the nationwide KONSENS ELSTER process in the Bavarian State Tax Office’s own data center at two independent locations in Nuremberg. In order to ensure trouble-free IT operations in the future and in particular to be optimally protected against elementary hazards such as heavy rain events or long power outages, the KONSENS network decided to set up another independent, georedundant location. Georedundancy is a decisive factor in ensuring operations even in the event of possible major regional damage events due to spatial distance. The data stock of the data centers is identical, so that each location can take over the function of the other without affecting functionality for users.
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