Supervisors retroactively approve $103,782 emergency server purchase for Independence data center

Aug 19, 2025

County IT staff obtained board approval to retroactively ratify a $103,782 emergency purchase of Nutanix server nodes for a backup at Independence Data Center after overheating issues threatened mission-critical finance systems at the Bishop facility.

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Abhi (last name not stated), Acting Chief Information Officer, told the Board on Aug. 19 that a mission-critical finance system (Finance Enterprise) was at risk following environmental-control failures at the county’s primary data center in Bishop. To secure redundancy, the county made an emergency purchase of Nutanix server nodes for the Independence Data Center and sought retroactive board approval.

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