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County IT to repurpose $60,000 switch budget for jail virtualization cluster; UPS replacement bid underway
Summary
Muscatine County IT staff told supervisors Feb. 3 that $60,000 budgeted for a switch refresh may be used instead to replace an undersized virtualization cluster serving the jail (estimated cost about $57,580). Staff said four to five switches are nearing end-of-support and the county will continue with planned UPS replacement bids.
County information-technology staff reported Feb. 3 that capital funds budgeted this fiscal year for network switches may be redirected to replace a virtualization cluster serving the jail after system growth exceeded earlier projections.
"They just grew faster than we anticipated in the five-year window of time that we had allotted for that," said Bill, an IT staff member (first name…
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