County IT reports server consolidation plan, Microsoft licensing savings and .gov rollout

Jul 20, 2026

Chris Martin reported a plan to consolidate physical servers into a $20,000 VM server, expects roughly $3,600 in licensing savings through a Microsoft partner, and described a phased rollout of .gov email addresses due to integration complexities.

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Chris Martin, leading the county's IT work, presented operational metrics and budget items including a plan to consolidate several aging physical servers into a single virtual machine (VM) server budgeted at about $20,000; he said this is more resilient and cost-effective than replacing multiple servers.

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