Finance Committee — 01/19/2022 Page 15
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Thank you Mr. Mayor. Nick Miseirvitch, Chief Information Officer for the City of Nashua. This project was actually
requested by Mayor Donchess back in Fiscal Year 2020. Unfortunately we could not start it at that point in time because
that’s when we were hit with COVID. As everyone is aware, everything just went crazy for the following year. We are
able to now get back to that and proceed with implementing that disaster recovery site. | am looking to replace all of the
servers not just the ones for the disaster recovery site to get everything consistent and also to streamline the process of
upgrading our virtual software. If | have all the servers now, | can build a brand new environment and then migrate
everything at the end instead of doing it piecemeal throughout a several month time. It’s going to reduce the time of
implementation from several months down to several weeks. This happens to be Dell’s year end so we are getting
extremely aggressive pricing such that this pricing is less than what their (inaudible) or value added resellers can get. The
savings is over $20,000. So we’re basically getting two servers for free.
Mayor Donchess
Now explain a little bit about the disaster recovery aspect of the project.
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
The city currently does not have a disaster recovery site so if something happens to our primary data center, that’s it. We
cannot operate. We can’t do anything. We can’t process payroll, we can't process tax bills, we can’t do motor vehicle
registrations. The city is pretty much dead in the water.
Mayor Donchess
For example if we were hacked and like some communities have been and ransom is requested, we need a backup site
so that we can duplicate what was there despite the interference by a criminal hacker.
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Correct. We can go to a previous point in time before the damage occurred and get up and running in a short amount of
time.
Mayor Donchess
This is going to be located away from City Hall and separate not connected to the normal IT system so that hacking the
main system wouldn't have access to this backup site.
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
There will be network inactivity but it will be disabled until needed. So they will not be able to get to the backup site.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Mr. Miseirvitch. In a previous lifetime, | worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs. | worked in their IT
Department. We had an offsite. We used another VA and they might use us and so on. We did it as often times the
physical offsite was to protect it and god forbid | hate to say this out loud but if anything physically happened to this
building and so on, it protected us and gave us a whole other backup as well as not just for someone hacking our system
but for someone physically infiltrating our system if they got into the IT department and so on. That is also part of this
whole plan?
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Absolutely.
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
