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Colleyville staff outlines Microsoft Azure government-cloud migration and three-year licensing costs
Summary
City IT staff presented a proposal to move Colleyville's Microsoft licensing and services to the Microsoft Azure Government cloud, showing a three-year cost comparison, projected hardware life span, and recovery implications for first responders; council will discuss sensitive details in executive session.
Patrick, an information-technology staff member for the City of Colleyville, told the City Council at its Sept. 16 work session that staff is recommending a migration of the city’s Microsoft licensing and services into the Microsoft Azure Government cloud.
The proposal, presented as a three-year cost analysis, compares continuing with on‑premise servers and perpetual licenses to moving to subscription-based licensing hosted in Microsoft’s government cloud. Patrick said the on‑premise estimate for the coming year would be about $182,463 and that the staff obtained three vendor bids for a full cloud migration and project work.
The cost comparison was presented as: an on‑premise annual estimate of approximately $182,463 for the first year;…
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