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2 <br /> <br />As this equipment ages,maintenance costs increase, thereby increasing the projected annual <br />expenditures up to over $80,000annually. Information Technologies is proposing that Orange <br />County enter into a no interest financing agreement with Eplus in order to reduce both the <br />annual maintenance costs and the annual hardware costs over the next three years. <br /> <br />Existing Projection FY16 FY17 FY18 <br />Current Software/Hardware Maintenance $41,000.00$44,000.00 $47,000.00 <br />Current Storage Growth$30,000.00$32,400.00 $34,992.00 <br />Total Cost Per Year $71,000.00$76,400.00 $81,992.00 <br /> <br /> Total Projected Cost FY16-FY18 $229,392.00 <br /> <br />Proposed ProjectionFY16FY17FY18 <br />Refresh Software/Hardware Maintenance$31,000.00$31,000.00 $31,000.00 <br />Refresh Storage Growth$24,000.00$24,000.00$24,000.00 <br />Total Cost Per Year $55,000.00$55,000.00 $55,000.00 <br /> <br /> Total Projected Cost FY16-FY18 $165,000.00 <br /> Total cost Savings $64,392.00 <br /> <br />It should be noted that in the above Existing Projection, maintenance costs increase due to the <br />fact that only hard disks will be purchased. This will add to the storage capacity, but will not buy <br />new processing capacity. In the above Proposed Projection, both storage and processing <br />power are purchased. Existing storage will be retained, i.e., the older hard diskarraycan still <br />be kept in service. Boththe storage and processing hardware can be rolled into a new <br />maintenance agreement. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: <br /> By entering into the attached 3-year agreement,the projected savings <br />should exceed $60,000for all SAN purchases. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): <br />The Manager recommends that Board approve and authorize the <br />Manager to sign the attached agreement and any future amendments. <br /> <br />