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IT director seeks $21,000 annual increase for cloud backup replacement product
Summary
IT Director Kevin Warren said the vendor's replacement cloud backup product is about $21,000 per year more than last year’s quote, increasing estimated annual costs to roughly $55,600; staff said the service secures backups in a cloud repository but is not an instant failover recovery solution.
Kevin Warren, IT Director, requested board approval for a replacement cloud backup product after the vendor informed the county last year’s quoted product is end‑of‑life. Warren said the vendor’s new product increases the county’s annual backup cost by about $21,000, bringing the projected annual total to roughly $55,600.
Staff described the cloud service as a secure offsite repository that will protect backups in the event of hardware loss or ransomware; recovery of very large datasets will require time to restore and replacement equipment. Warren said the vendor’s quote is time‑limited and that his team is seeking authorization to proceed so the county can implement cloud backups this year.
Commissioners asked about alternate vendors, recovery‑time expectations and whether the county could negotiate pricing; Warren said the county is staying with the current vendor for continuity and that the quoted product is intended to prevent long multi‑week outages rather than provide immediate hot failover.
