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RESOLVED: Cabinet authorised
the Chief Information Officer to award a contract for the provision
to the Council of replacement SAN equipment and services, in
compliance with the Council’s procurement processes, contract
procedure rules, and procurement legislative requirements; said
contract to replace existing provision supplying services to the
Council.
 
REASONS RESOLVED:
1.   
The existing SAN equipment was inherited from our
one of our predecessors and is going end-of-life, meaning it will
not be supported by the manufacturer. This will pose increasing
security risks to our data and services, as well as make repairs
and replacements harder to source, unless we replace the
equipment.
2.   
At this time, our data management processes are not
mature enough to consider a Cloud option without incurring
substantially more expense than our present costs; ergo,
replacement of physical hardware is the most cost-effective choice
at this juncture.
 
ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS:

·        
Option 1 – Do Nothing. It is possible
to continue running the equipment and opt for no support, negating
any capital costs of replacement and reducing our revenue cost.

·        
Option 2 – Renew maintenance only. We may be
able to seek a further extension of the maintenance agreement from
our existing supplier.

·        
Option 3 – Replacement. Commence the
replacement of both sets of equipment and services as described in
this paper.