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Preview <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />F �FLO¢ S <br />firm OF 5UN Abp <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach <br />18070 Collins Avenue <br />Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 <br />(305) 947 -0606 City Hall <br />(305) 949 -3113 Fax <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commission <br />FROM: Minal Shah, Assistant City Manager- Finance <br />DATE: 3/15/2012 <br />RE: Purchase a Backup and Storage Server. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff is recommending Commission approve the attached resolution authorizing the <br />purchase of a Backup and Storage Server appliance from Unitrends in an amount not to <br />exceed $30,000. <br />REASONS: <br />As staff is assessing our current IT system, immediate concerns were identified and <br />required addressing such as a new tapeless backup system. <br />The City's existing tape backup system wis aging, slow, and very difficult to maintain. <br />After several complicated restore jobs that directly impacted the staff's ability to provide <br />reliable computer services to the City, IT deemed it necessary to find a solution. Existing <br />tape backup equipment was placed into service in 2007. <br />The Unitrends Recovery Appliance will provide hour -by -hour continuous, deduplicated, <br />tapeless backups for Government Center and Police Department servers, the current tape <br />system backups once a day. The new backup appliance being proposed will greatly <br />reduce downtime when restoring data from failed servers from two days to a few hours. <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />Funding is available in account number 10 -559 -5645. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />Agenda Item (O 0. <br />Date 3— X5.121 <br />http: / /sibagenda. sibfl.net /agenda /Preview. aspx ?ItemID= 726 &MeetingIl <br />