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Lea County IT director outlines virtualization, Starlink backup and monitoring upgrades
Summary
Information technology director Robert Francis told the commission he plans server virtualization across county facilities, enterprise Starlink satellite service as tertiary Internet backup, and SolarWinds monitoring; some purchases must be made soon to meet grant timing and will be ratified later.
Robert Francis, the Lea County information technology director, presented a multi‑part plan May 8 to modernize county IT infrastructure with server virtualization, enterprise satellite failover and centralized monitoring.
Francis said virtualization will consolidate many physical servers onto virtual machines, reduce recovery time (he projected full server farm recovery within two hours in…
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