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Council Agenda Item Coverr <br />________________________________________________________________________ <br />MEEETING DATTE: <br />August 255, 2008 <br />AGEENDA ITEMM TITLE: <br />StorageAAccess Netwwork Devicee <br />AGEENDA SECTTION: <br />Consent <br />CANN THIS ITEMM BE RESCCHEDULEDD? : <br />No <br />BACCKGROUNDD REVIEWW: <br />Requestts for Quotees were solicited for thhe purchasse <br />of a StorageAAccess Netwwork (SANN) device foor the dataa center. Thhe SAN will <br />proviide 4 TB (terabytes)oof data storrage for thee City’s datta center off 12 serverrs <br />(exclluding the ppolice serveers). Each sserver can only carry a finite amount of harrd <br />diskstorage that must bee maintaineed on individual serveers and is subject to a <br />greatter percenttage of failuure and ressulting service disruption. Currenntly, the Citty <br />mustt purchase new serveers as storaage is usedd up. The SAN allowss storage tto <br />scalee easily at less expennse as neww servers do not neeed to be purchased tto <br />increease storagge nor do the disk drives fail as often. Data can be easilly <br />acceessed and managedcentrallyfrom the SAN verssus managging severaal <br />indivvidual serveers. It has the inherent ability too self heal disc problems and iis <br />desiggned with redundancy and replication feaatures not ffound on rregular harrd <br />drivees, minimiziing service disruptionto City data.A SAN is also an iinstrumentaal <br />compponent in data redundancy annd disasterr recovery planningwwhich IT iis <br />curreently studying. Funds planned foor the needeed expansioon of serveers are being <br />usedd for this purchase. <br />VendorBidPPrice <br />ServerCCentric Conssulting$ 300,390.00 <br />Xiotech$ 300,843.00 <br />WorldWWide Technoology$ 366,127.00 <br />RECCOMMENDAATION: <br />SStaff recommends awwarding the bid to Server Centriic <br />Conssulting at $30,390 beccause they provide thee best overrall solutionn at the leasst <br />cost.. <br /> <br />