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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a lease-purchase agreement and related documents with Chase Equipment Finance, Inc. for the financing of disaster recovery technology in an amount not to exceed $505,340 over a five-year period, or $101,068 annually. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The City of Long Beach is dependent on its information technology infrastructure to deliver services. In the event of a disaster, it is critical that information systems are operational to ensure the City meets its responsibilities to the public and its employees.
The data center in the basement of City Hall is vulnerable to various types of disasters such as earthquake, flooding, and fire. Over the past three years, the Technology Services Department (TSD) has been implementing a strategy in a phased approach to recover systems and facilitate business continuation following a disaster. In 2008, based on a Request for Proposals (RFP) process, TSD entered into an agreement with IBM for off-site disaster recovery in a data center in Boulder, Colorado at an annual cost of approximately $60,000. The agreement provides TSD with the ability to run City mainframe applications critical to operations (financial management, human resource management/payroll, utility billing and billing and collections) at a remote facility. In 2009, TSD installed equipment at the City’s Emergency Communications and Operations Center (ECOC) on Redondo Avenue to back up data over the City’s network.
The requested agreement proposes to complete the disaster recovery strategy by installing technology to recover and operate non-mainframe, or open, systems at the ECOC. The listing below presents examples of the open systems housed on approximately 300 physical and virtual servers in the City Hall data center.
· Ambulance billing · Housing Authority property/payments
· Animal Care · Licensing and permitting
· Blackberry · Occupational Health
· Cashiering · Marina management
· City At...
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