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County approves $118,617 primary storage appliance to speed backups
Summary
The board approved purchase of a replacement electronic storage appliance (Pure Storage via Marco) for $118,617 to reduce weekend backup windows and provide five years of supported capacity.
Clay County approved a purchase of a replacement primary storage appliance for backups at a cost of $118,617 (Pure Storage, purchased through Marco of Fargo) at its March 11 meeting.
Rory, an IT staff member, told the board the county’s backup window was stretching into the work week under current hardware and that the new appliance would reduce the backup window and provide capacity headroom for an estimated five years. The device will replace aging storage appliances and the county will continue off‑site replication and cloud archival as part of its layered backup strategy.
Rory said the county tiers data by criticality: tier‑1 servers are replicated every few hours and have multiple off‑site copies, while older archival data is stored in the cloud. The board asked whether body‑worn camera or security‑camera data were part of the stored payload; Rory said the sheriff’s office and juvenile/corrections camera systems use cloud storage dedicated to those vendors, and security cameras are retained on site for seven days according to county video retention policy and not backed up long term.
Funding and procurement: the cost will be covered by the county’s internal service funds and the appliance includes five years of warranty, support and maintenance. The board approved the purchase by voice vote.
Ending: IT staff said they expect the device to carry the county’s backup needs for five to six years and will return with future replacement plans when the support term nears its end.
