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City council approves $29,907 for on‑premises disaster‑recovery servers after cloud cost debate
Summary
The East Hampton City Council approved a $29,907.49 transfer from free cash to buy servers and storage for a local disaster‑recovery data center after the IT director and councilors debated an alternative cloud option and lifecycle costs.
The East Hampton City Council voted to transfer $29,907.49 from free cash to buy servers and storage that officials say are needed to support a secondary, on‑premises data center for disaster recovery.
City IT staff presented the proposal during a May 6 public hearing, saying a local secondary data center would let the city switch operations immediately if the main data center was offline because of fire, a cyberattack or other catastrophe. The supplemental appropriation will pay part of the roughly $59,446.90 total project cost; the remainder will be funded from ARPA and other…
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