The City of Riviera Beach is in need of increasing its storage capacity, backup and disaster recovery capabilities for on-site and off-site data availability, cyber-security, high-availability, failover, redundancy, and connectivity.  The City of Riviera Beach currently utilizes two Netapp FAS2200 series storage devices which consist of 80 terabytes usable across both appliances and these systems will soon be out of storage capacity as well as end-of-life and end-of-support as of December 20, 2018. 

As the City continues to build out our GIS, ERP, and application development the IT staff recommends a storage solution that not only increases its capacity, but infrastructure performance, resiliency, and elasticity within the City of Riviera Beach’s eco-system. The City Council approved Resolution No. 119-17 on October 18, 2017, which provides City staff with the ability to utilize other executed government contracts for City procurement needs.   City staff has identified existing contract vehicles suitable to fulfill existing data storage hardware needs.  The cost of essential hardware infrastructure is $734,275.31.  It is necessary to approve a three-year Installment Payment Agreement with “ePlus Group, Inc.” with annual payments of $266,139.59, totaling $798,418.77.

City staff recommends approval of this Resolution.