TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Peter D. Lear, CPA, CGMA, City Manager
TITLE: Technology Service Agreement Amendment #2 with Sarasota County for a recurring annual fee of $11,527.68.
Recommended Action
Approve the Technology Service Agreement Amendment No. 2 with Sarasota County to allow North Port servers and related disaster recovery infrastructure to continue to be hosted at the Sarasota County datacenter for a term of one (1) year at an annual cost of $11,527.68.
Background Information
This proposed amendment reflects a modification of an existing agreement with Sarasota County. The amendment addresses additional North Port equipment placed in the Sarasota County datacenter, resulting in additional annual cost of $128.76. There is one additional Police server that is being placed at the Sarasota datacenter for disaster recovery purposes. The original agreement, submitted via agenda item No. 14-1010. was approved by Commission on June 22, 2015.
Sarasota County's Information Technology Department provides datacenter hosting services to regional partners. These hosting services are non-profit based, and the tenant costs are much less than can be found with commercial vendors. There is an existing fiber network connecting North Port City Hall to the Sarasota County datacenter network.
Planning for disaster recovery is very important to ensure continuity of operations for City services. With the approval of the Technology Service Agreement, North Port will place its own servers, data storage array and network switches at the Sarasota County datacenter in support of a plan to recover from a disaster with the City's datacenter.
The following are some examples of organizations which are using Sarasota's datacenter hosting services:
* Sarasota County School Board
* Sarasota Memorial Hospital
* Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections
* Tax Collector
* Sarasota County Sheriff
* Property Appraiser
* Town of Longboat Key
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