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Delray Beach IT highlights disaster recovery, cybersecurity and digital services in budget briefing

3431623 · May 21, 2025
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Chief Technology Officer Jay Stacy described investments in disaster recovery, cybersecurity, cloud telephony, online permitting, and live-streaming, and said the department’s budget rose about 4% largely for personnel and overtime tied to meeting support.

Jay Stacy, Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Information Technology Department, told the commission on May 20 that the department has expanded services and infrastructure over the past five years and that most recent investments aim to ensure continuity and security.

Stacy described a hardened colocation arrangement in Tallahassee that mirrors mission-critical systems so the city can fail over if the local data center is lost to a disaster. “We are renting space in a hardened colocation center in Tallahassee, where we back up…

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