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Council approves $82,004 data backup system to boost city disaster recovery
Summary
The council approved an $82,004 purchase from SHI International Corp for a consolidated backup and recovery system to replace legacy servers, centralize data protection across city services and improve disaster recovery; funding will come from the computer replacement fund.
City staff recommended and the council approved purchase of a centralized backup and disaster-recovery system from SHI International Corp for $82,004. Staff said the city's existing public-safety and city-hall backup systems were last replaced in 2019 and now need additional processing power and storage.
The presenter described the purchase as consolidating two legacy systems into a single standardized backup solution to protect files and configurations and allow rapid recovery after hardware failure, ransomware or accidental deletion. Funding is available in the computer replacement fund and the council approved the item by voice vote (7 yes).
The city manager and staff said the system is intended to increase reliability across public-safety and municipal applications.
