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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Kenneth Nelson
DATE: October 31, 2014
SUBJECT:
Resolution Authorizing the Purchase of Cisco computing and networking equipment for the Police Department in the amount of $109,441.77 from Sentinel Technologies, Inc.
PURPOSE:
This purchase includes three separate projects. The first project involves the annual replacement of one third of the Police Department's oldest server equipment. This was an approved 2013 decision package. The server replacement portion of this purchase request amounts to $24,967.47 this includes a 5% contingency.
This new hardware will replace the current physical servers used to deploy a large number of virtualized servers for a variety of Police and Fire Department applications. These servers will specifically be located in the DR (Disaster Recovery) site. New faster more capable server equipment is needed both for increased overall performance of the existing virtual systems and for the addition of new virtual servers coming on-line. This purchase also continues the move to a more consolidated architecture. This consolidates and/or reduces the amount of infrastructure needed to support the virtual servers in use, increases reliability and redundancy and streamlines the server deployment cycle.
The second project included in this purchase relates to the replacement of Cisco network storage equipment used to connect the SAN (Storage Area Network) to the servers which use said storage. This will replace Cisco MDS switches which were installed in June of 2008 with Cisco Nexus 5Ks. The MDS switches are over 6 years old and have reached the end of their usable life. This replacement will also greatly improve the speed at which we can operate, and will be another step towards improving our overall DR strategy. The MDS Fabric switch replacement portion of this project amounts to $79,333.51 this includes a 5% contingency.
The third project is to purchase a switch for use at a core si...
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