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County approves replacement of core storage array to avoid rising costs as vendor credit ends
Summary
IT Director Ken told commissioners county storage-array drives are end‑of‑life and a vendor buyback/credit program ends at month‑end; the array replacement was already budgeted and the board approved the purchase. Ken said the county can absorb roughly $3,000 of increased cost.
IT Director Ken told the board that the county’s primary storage array—"the backbone of IT"—uses drives that are at end‑of‑life and that the vendor’s trade‑in/credit program expires at the end of the month. He said the program reduces retail cost for replacement drives, and losing that credit would substantially increase the county’s replacement expense.
“...they're ending the buyback program for the drives. So, if we don't do it by, you know, July 30, 31st...we're gonna pay a substantial more for these drives than we currently have on our...budget,” Ken said. He told commissioners the purchase had been placed in this year’s capital expenditures and that the price increase since budgeting is about $3,000, which he said the department can absorb.
Commissioner (speaker 2) moved to approve the purchase; the motion was seconded, the clerk called the roll, and the motion carried 2–0. The vendor was referenced in the record as Zylogic (the county's VAR for the Pure Storage array).
Ken also described the array’s controllers and a history of replacement cycles, and said this is the first time in a decade the vendor has required drive replacement. The board instructed staff to proceed with the budgeted procurement and to finalize contract details with the vendor.
The approved action covers replacement drives and related services necessary to keep servers and county applications running; procurement files will contain the final cost and vendor documentation.
