REPORT/RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
AND RECORD OF ACTION
March 11, 2025
FROM
LYNN FYHRLUND, Chief Information Officer, Innovation and Technology Department
SUBJECT
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Contract with Consiliant Technologies LLC for Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform Upgrade, Maintenance, and Support Services.
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RECOMMENDATION(S)
Recommendation
Approve Contract with Consiliant Technologies LLC to provide upgrade, maintenance, and support services for the Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform, in a not-to-exceed amount of $1,000,000 for the period of March 11, 2025, through March 10, 2028.
(Presenter: Lynn Fyhrlund, Chief Information Officer, 388-5501)
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COUNTY AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Improve County Government Operations.
Operate in a Fiscally-Responsible and Business-Like Manner.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Approval of this item will not result in the use of Discretionary General Funding (Net County Cost). The Innovation and Technology Department's (ITD) operating costs are recovered via service rates approved annually by the Board of Supervisors (Board). The cost to upgrade to and maintain support of the Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi) Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) in the not-to-exceed amount of $1,000,000 will allow ITD to obtain upgrades, maintenance, and support services for the VSP as needed over the life of the contract.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ITD manages and maintains the County's Hitachi storage platforms, which provide data storage for critical County applications such as FileNet, the County Sheriff's Jail Information Management System, and various other database systems on the enterprise server. Support and maintenance for this infrastructure is critical to the continuous operations of these County systems, as well as the County's disaster recovery and business continuity efforts. ITD has used Hitachi storage platforms maintenance and support services since March 2015.
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