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TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the Common Council
FROM: Mark A. Rohloff, City Manager
DATE: August 20, 2013
RE: Mass Storage Array Purchase
BACKGROUND
At their July 9, 2013 meeting the Common Council approved a professional services agreement
for Unitrends, Inc. for $33,465 to provide planning and installation solutions to address the
backup and recovery capability of the City's data storage infrastructure. I'm pleased to report
that working with our IT staff, Unitrends has successfully addressed our backup and recovery
capability and as requested, identified future storage capacity solutions that recommended a mass
storage array with ten terabytes of capacity to meet all current and foreseeable future needs for
the City's data. IT staff concurred with Unitrend's recommendation and solicited quotes from
vendors for this storage capacity.
ANALYSIS
After reviewing the quotes received, IT staff concluded the low quote of $10,564 from North
American Systems, Inc. for a Hewlett-Packard P2000 mass storage array met the required
specifications.
FISCAL IMPACT
The cost of this equipment was charged to A/N# 100-0110-7202-00000.
RECOMMENDATION
While this purchase does not require Council approval per our purchasing ordinance, it was a
recommendation related to our Unitrends, Inc. professional services agreement for this project
and as such, I felt we should report this to you. If you have any questions on this purchase please
contact me or IT Manager Tony Neumann.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mark A. Rohloff, City Manager
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