Bingham County approves Pure Storage purchase and multiple software renewals

IT Director Matt Galloway presented a multi-part plan to modernize the county’s server/storage and backup infrastructure and the Board approved the capital and subscription purchases described at the October meetings.

Galloway described why Pure Storage appliances were recommended and said a vendor discount reduced earlier quotes; the Board approved a $207,714.20 purchase split between the IT capital servers account ($150,000) and IT capital computers ($57,714.20). Planning Director Tiffany Olsen asked the Board to pay an OpenGov invoice originally budgeted in IT but placed into Planning & Development; she said that "there were no funds to cover the invoice for the OpenGov contract" in IT at the time, so the Board authorized payment of $25,553.00 from the Planning & Development software line. The Board also approved a ClearGov budgeting-suite renewal of $28,145 paid from the Clerk's imaging-contract fund.

At a later session IT staff requested renewals and a replacement backup product: a VMware renewal for $11,794.88 for the hypervisor and a Veeam subscription for $12,553.87 to replace the county's prior backup manager as the county brings new storage appliances online. All purchases and renewals were approved by unanimous motions and will be charged to the IT software and capital lines listed in the meeting record.