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<br />1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date:May 19, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.6-h <br />SUBJECT: <br />Storage Area Network Upgrade <br />No <br />DEPARTMENT:PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />Information Technologies <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Installment Payment AgreementJim Northrup, 919-245-2276 <br />PURPOSE: <br />Topurchase new equipment to increase the processing capacity andincrease the <br />storage capacityof the County’s storage area network(SAN) while reducing the annual <br />maintenance costs. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The SAN (storage area network) is ahighly redundant and large array of hard <br />disks that can be segregated to appear as single drives to any connected server. This <br />technology consolidates most of the County’s servers’storage. Since FY 2011 Orange County <br />Information Technologies has spent anaverage of approximately $70,000per year to maintain <br />and improve this technology. Based on current storage needs and future storage projections, <br />this trend should continue. <br />Purchase SAN Hardware MaintenanceTotal <br />OrderProcessor/Storage <br />1101924-00FY2011Q4$79,603 $9,824 FY2011$89,427 <br />1200616-00FY2012Q1$45,274 $4,168 FY2012$52,881 <br />1202017-00FY2012Q4$3,439 <br />1300220-00FY2013Q1$20,911 FY2013$71,376.37 <br />1300731-00FY2013Q2$48,044 $2,421 FY2013 <br />1400469-00FY2014Q1$25,195 FY2014$78,244 <br />1400632-00FY2014Q1$48,605 $4,444 <br />1500594-00FY2015Q1$35,414 FY2015$64,389 <br />1501472-00FY2015Q3$27,586 $1,389 <br />Total FY11 through FY15$356,316.44 <br />Yearly Average$71,263.29 <br /> <br />