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Approve and authorize the Director of the Information Technology Department to execute Amendment No. 1 to the non-standard agreement with a State and Local Agency Server and Cloud Enrollment Agreement with Insight Direct USA, Inc. (Insight), a Microsoft licensing reseller, to increase the Agreement by $80,000.00 to cover additional services for Microsoft government services, data backup software subscriptions and associated maintenance/support, in the maximum amount of $176,859.80.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Approve and authorize the Director of the Information Technology Department to execute Amendment No. 1 to the non-standard agreement with a State and Local Agency Server and Cloud Enrollment Agreement with Insight Direct USA, Inc. (Insight), a Microsoft licensing reseller, to increase the Agreement by $80,000.00 to cover additional services for Microsoft government services, data backup software subscriptions and associated maintenance/support, in the maximum amount of $176,859.80.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The current agreement with Insight Direct USA, Inc. (Insight), a Microsoft licensing reseller of the Microsoft Azure Government Shared Server product provides data backup solution storing a copy of all backed up data in the Microsoft Government Cloud to facilitate recovery of data services should a disaster render the County's existing ITD infrastructure useless.
Due to additional usage the quarterly amount has exceeded the original budgeted amount by $15,000. The proposed increase will meet the current backup-recovery services, and provide additional funds in the event the projected storage needs of the County increases.
The proposed Amendment with Insight to increase the contract amount will enable Monterey County ITD to continue to store data backups offsite. This will ensure that we can recover data in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure/disaster.
The proposed Amendment continues to allow the...
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