TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Meg Ragan, Chief Technology Officer - Information Technology Services
REPORT BY: Elena Guzm?n, Staff Services Analyst II
SUBJECT: Authorization of Capital Asset and Budget Amendment to expand Storage Area Network capacity
RECOMMENDATION
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Authorize the purchase of a capital asset expanding Storage Area Network capacity to support the continued growth of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) data; and approve a Budget Amendment with appropriation authority for Information Technology Services department. (Fiscal Impact: $190,000 Expense; ITS Fund; Not Budgeted; Discretionary)
[4/5 vote required]
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BACKGROUND
Information Technology Services has identified the need to expand the Storage Area Network (SAN) capacity to support the continued growth of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) data for application initiatives requiring the movement, duplication, and retention of large data sets. During prior project planning efforts, budgeted funds allocated for Informatica and Infoverity consulting services should have been at least partially directed toward the acquisition of additional hardware storage infrastructure necessary to support the volume of data required for the project. Due to insufficient available storage capacity, complete data sets could not be fully copied to the network environment, which limited the ability to fully utilize contracted consulting resources earmarked for vendor engagement.
The current ECM storage environment is approaching maximum capacity, increasing the risk of degraded transactional performance, reduced data availability, and operational instability due to limited storage overhead. In addition, constrained capacity increases recovery risk by extending point-in-time restore operations in the event of data corruption or system failure.
While transaction performance remains within acceptable thresholds today, planned initiatives and continued ECM growth will significantly increase storage dem...
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