Commission Meeting Date: 5/4/2021 |
Requested Action by Commission: Approve the purchase of an Exagrid EX36-SEC encrypted backup storage appliance from Transource Services Corp in the amount of $58,718.31. |
Explanation of Request: The Police Department currently performs an offsite disk-to-disk backup using a legacy eight-year-old storage area network (SAN) that is no longer supported for the offsite backup solution. The Exagrid solution has proven reliability and performance as City I.T.S. is currently using an Exagrid appliance at the City’s main data center.
This purchase satisfies the City’s purchasing requirements by utilizing the State of Florida Alternate Contract #43211500-WSCA-15-ACS for the purchase. |
How will this affect city programs or services? The backup appliance will increase storage capacity and performance for Police system backups and will add encryption for an additional level of security. |
Fiscal Impact: Budgeted Funding has been approved from CIP funds utilizing account # 303-4199-580.64-15 and Project #PD2107 in the amount of $58,718.31. |
Alternatives: Not approve this purchase and operate with unsupported equipment that will soon have insufficient capacity and reliability for current operations. |
Strategic Plan: Building Wealth in the Community |
Strategic Plan Application: This purchase will continue efforts to build and maintain ‘wealth in the community’ by protecting the reliability and longevity of the City’s computers systems and backup data. Failure to maintain, backup, and protect the Police departments data would have a detrimental impact on Police services provided to the community. |