Council approves $750,000 purchase to replace public-safety hyperconverged system
City staff told council the proposed hyperconverged infrastructure will replace an aging Dell VxRail system with a five-year expected life; CIO Kishla Penney said the $750,000 purchase will come from the capital improvement project fund and is intended to keep public-safety systems running with redundant power and cybersecurity protections.
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Kishla Penney, the city's chief information officer, briefed the council on a proposed hyperconverged infrastructure for the public-safety data center to replace the existing Dell VxRail system. Penney said the existing system has been in use about five years and the proposed replacement is expected to have a similar five-year useful life; the system will remain housed in the public-safety data center and be protected by the city's cyber security layers and backup power systems.
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