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a. Approve and authorize the Contracts Purchasing Officer or the Contracts Purchasing Supervisor to execute a State and Local Agency Server and Cloud Enrollment Agreement with Insight Direct USA, Inc. (Insight), a Microsoft licensing reseller, for the purchase of government services, data storage subscriptions and associated maintenance/support, for the period of December 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 in the maximum amount of $1,000.00; and
b. Accept non-standard contract provisions as recommended by the Director of the Information Technology Department.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Contracts Purchasing Officer or the Contracts Purchasing Supervisor to execute a State and Local Agency Server and Cloud Enrollment Agreement with Insight Direct USA, Inc. (Insight), a Microsoft licensing reseller, for the purchase of government services, data storage subscriptions and associated maintenance/support, for the period of December 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 in the maximum amount of $1,000.00; and
b. Accept non-standard contract provisions as recommended by the Director of the Information Technology Department.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Since 1985, the Information Technology Department (ITD) has been backing up County data locally to tape, and storing a second copy of the data tapes offsite at a secure facility operated by Iron Mountain. With the County's move to server-based applications and away from mainframe-based systems, the amount of data stored, the disk space required, and number of tapes required to store County data has grown exponentially. Although tape technology has improved over time, there are still occasional tape media and drive failures. In addition, the current data backup process is extremely time consuming, requiring significant investment of ITD staff resources.
ITD seeks to purchase Microsoft data backup software subscriptions and associated maintenance/suppo...
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