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AGENDA ITEM
December 8, 2015
TO: Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Council
THRU: Rick Otto
City Manager
FROM: William M. Kolbov��
Finance Director
ReviewedNerified By:
City Manager
Finance Direct
To Be Presented By: Will Kolbow
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1. SUBJECT 7771
Approve the purchase and installation of a new Storage Area Network ( "SAN ") for Civic
Center and increase the capacity of the SAN at the Police Department.
2. SUMMARY
The Civic Center's centralized data storage system has reached its end -of -life. In addition, the
Police Department storage system has less than 10% of capacity remaining. As such, it is
recommended that the City install a new storage area network ( "SAN ") at the Civic Center and
increase the capacity of the Police Department SAN. The equipment will be purchased from and
installed by Sidepath, Inc., which has been the City's partner in the installation of both existing
SAN's.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
Authorize the purchase and installation of a new Storage Area Network for the Civic Center and
the purchase and installation of additional storage capacity in the SAN at the Police Department
from Sidepath, Inc. of Irvine, CA in the amount of $373,980.33.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
Funds are available for this purchase in the following account:
790.1601.5 603 3.19640
IT Fund
$373,980.33
5. STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL(S)
2a. Be a fiscally healthy community — Expend fiscal resources responsibly.
4a. Provide outstanding public services — Enhance technology to improve public accessibility to
information and services.
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6. GENERAL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Not applicable.
7. DISCUSSION and BACKGROUND
The City of Orange acquired a Compellent storage area network (SAN) in June of 2010 in order
to consolidate, expand, increase performance, and provide continuous data availability for all of
its electronic storage needs. The City went through a competitive process to procure the solution
and ultimately selected Sidepath as its partner. In January of 2011 the Orange Police Department
(OPD) also acquired a Compellent SAN from Sidepath and the two systems were connected
together in order to provide a real -time disaster recovery solution. The City has realized many
benefits by implementing the Compellent SAN including:
• Increased storage capacity
• Increased storage performance
• Reduced administration
• Continuous data availability
• Virtualized data center (67 physical servers reduced to 14)
The City has not invested in additional storage since the original purchases were made, but we
have reached a point where it is necessary to re- invest in our storage platform. Most of the
Compellent solution at the Civic Center is reaching its end -of -life in terms of continued vendor
support and must be replaced. In addition, both Civic Center and OPD storage systems have less
than 10% of capacity left and must be increased in order to continue operating. All of the City's
critical data is stored on the SAN including: financials, permits, business license, utility billing,
GIS, e -mail, city documents, fire and police records management, etc. The City has been very
satisfied with both Compellent as a storage solution and Sidepath as a trusted partner for
implementation and support.
Xerox staff is recommending an upgrade of the Civic Center Compellent SAN and an expansion
of the OPD Compellent SAN. This will increase both performance and capacity in both
locations and provide continued (and improved) operation of the City's storage platform. Civic
Center storage will increase from 58 terabytes to 115 terabytes and OPD will increase from 62
terabytes to 82 terabytes. As Sidepath is the registered partner with the City of Orange they
receive preferred pricing from Dell and have continually demonstrated value to the City in both
product purchases as well as professional services.
8. ATTACHMENTS
Statement of Work
Quotation from Sidepath, Inc.
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