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FROM: William Walker, M.D. Health Services Director Costa
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DATE: October 14, 2008 °°ST '`�v� Cjo u my
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SUBJECT: Purchase of Virtual Servers
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Health Services Department, to execute a
Purchase Order, in an amount not to exceed $235,000, for the purchase of six IBM Virtual Servers to provide
additional capacity to the Departments various data applications.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Total cost of$235,000 is budgeted in the Enterprise I. This purchase will save up to eight times the cost of
purchasing standard servers.
BACKGROUND/REASON(S) FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
This purchase will allow the Department to purchase six new powerful high performance servers. These servers
will allow the capacity to be increased because they can handle connections to more individual personal
computers than the standard server. A virtual server allows the partitioning a physical server computer into
multiple servers such'that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine.
Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted
The purchase of these servers will ultimately save the department six to eight times the cost of purchasing
standard servers to handle the same capacity and improve disaster recovery capabilities.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: -YES— SIG TURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
A—APPROVE OTHER
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS: I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
_( UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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CONTACT: Bill Sorrell 5-6541 DAVID TWA,CLERK OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
CC: County Administrator's Office
Health Services Department
GSD Purchasing
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