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Committee approves IT infrastructure contracts, including $2M data-center phase and multi-year software agreements
Summary
Ottawa County’s committee approved several network and software contracts — a $1.998 million phase-two data center refresh with People Driven Technologies, router and switch refreshes with Sentinel Technologies, and a five-year PowerDMS contract — prompting discussion about VMware licensing costs and vendor choices.
The Finance and Administration Committee voted to forward multiple IT infrastructure contracts to the Board of Commissioners, including a $1,998,156 contract for phase two of the county’s data-center refresh and separate contracts to refresh network switches and routers and to consolidate PowerDMS licensing.
The most expensive item, a phase-two data-center refresh with People Driven Technologies, was discussed at length. The committee voted to forward the People Driven Technologies contract for phase two of the data center refresh, with Commissioner discussion focused on cost drivers, vendor selection and software licensing costs tied to VMware.
Why it matters: the refresh is part of a multi-year capital plan to modernize Ottawa County’s core IT infrastructure; the data-center work and…
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