O-2014-3516 amend City of La Porte FY2013-2014 Budget

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Wolny, Shelley From: Suggs, Jeff Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 9:14 AM To: Dolby, Michael; Wolny, Shelley Cc: Leach, Traci Subject: Budget Amendment - SAN Replacement The Storage Area Network (SAN) is a budgeted item in the Technology Fund. It is crucial to upgrade the SAN sooner than later for 5 main reasons: 1.SAN End of Life (earlier than expected), 2. One Solution Implementation, 3. Currently out of Space (crucial) , 4. ISE Implementation (critical cyber security protection), and 5. Core Equipment End of Life (hardware servers). The most critical reason to move forward with the upgrade would be that the equipment is end of life August 2014. This means they will quit supporting the hardware that is the core of our network. One Solution is a huge implementation that will take the majority of our staff for 18+ months. It is coming up very soon and we will not be able to upgrade the SAN during this time. There will be a long period of time where we have both OneSolution and Naviline, we will have to support both systems. We do not have the space to have both cache of data running at the same time. Another critical reason we need to upgrade sooner than later is the fact that we are out of space for current machines in use. This prevents current projects in process from being fully implemented as well as preventing future expansion and services provided. There are several new technologies that are becoming popular like BYOD (bring your own device) and as the technology is brought into the city we need to be able to manage and accommodate it while not compromising network integrity or security. The ISE (Identity Services Engine) project required a virtual server. Since we started rolling out ISE we have been receiving performance issues that sometimes even causes the ISE service to lapse. We need to move the ISE server to the primary SAN at the PD, but it is out of space. This is a huge security concern. The final reason is that the SQL servers are nearly 7 years old and will be end of life soon. The server SQL02 is a physical machine that we are considering moving to the SAN as a virtual server. That will require more resources and storage. A# s EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR/ INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER City of La Porte, Texas 281470 0010 office 281470 0009 direct 713 408 1329 cell 2814701590 fax www.Ipoem.org TEXTING & DRIVING... It Can Wait. Take the pledge today and pass it on.