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Purchase of a Disk Backup System (Replacing Disaster Recovery Tape System) for the Information Technology Department (Citywide)
The current tape library system for disaster recovery uses a tape format that is three generations old and near end-of-life. The annual maintenance cost of this system is becoming cost prohibitive and the risk of unreliable backups has been increasing. This purchase will replace the system with the same disk-based system currently in place at the Data Center providing the redundancy needed for the City's backup data at a separate location and eliminating the cost of the tape library maintenance, tapes and transport of these tapes to an off-site location.
The Information Technology Department and Purchasing recommend authorizing the purchase using the Mohave Educational Services Cooperative contract with Safari Micro, Inc., at $70,682.84.