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A resolution abandoning, partially abandoning and transferring $2,000,000 in funds from various General Fund accounts/projects and Capital Improvement Fund projects to the Information Technology operating department for remediation
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From:
Steve Cox, Chief of Staff/Chief Administrative Officer
Summary:
After an assessment in early 2014, the Information Technology (IT) operating department identified several initial short-term remediation and support activities required to provide a safer, more efficient and more effective environment for all its customers. In short, the City must begin the process of redesigning and rebuilding its network to address several issues, and ensure the City has proper support in place for its key IT systems (both core systems and business systems including the financial system). The network redesign/rebuild is necessary as the current network is architecturally broken - the network has not been working reliably and several resources appear to be at capacity - there has been a high frequency of failure, and currently there are multiple single points of failure (which must be reduced to near zero to provide the level of safety and reliability the City requires). This assessment of the current network architecture has been confirmed by Gartner, ISC, Cisco TAC, and Hogan Lovells.
The proposed rebuilding or remediation entails work in the following areas: network mitigation (phase 1, including BURA - backup, recovery and archive), data center relocation (including virtual servers and storage), enterprise IT security program, IT service management (including process development, 24x7 service desk and tool support), PeopleSoft (financial system) mitigation. Effective implementation of additional IT mitigation projects are dependent in part on the currently unfunded design, mitigation and remediation efforts listed above. Additional IT priority projects include: Active Directory redesign, Office 365 imp...
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