Finance Committee — 01/19/2022 Page 16
Alderwoman Timmons
Thank you Mayor Donchess. | have one questions. The backup site is that one location within the city or are you looking
outside of the city?
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
It is within the city.
Alderwoman Timmons
The one location?
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Correct. One location.
Alderman Gouveia
Yes just one quick question. So of the 15 servers, how many are for just the primary use and how many for the disaster
recovery?
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Ten for the primary and five for the offsite.
Alderman Gouveia
Okay, thank you.
Alderwoman Timmons
| do have on question. You said there’s two of the servers will be free, right? So you have fifteen plus two or is it thirteen
plus two?
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Well buying 15 but at the pricing that they’re giving us, we’re effectively getting two for free for the regular price.
Alderwoman Timmons
Okay.
Alderman Cathey
Thank you Mr. Mayor. Just a sort of an inquisitive question about the servers. How long do you expect them to last? |
know the old ones you said are ten plus years old. Is that a typical lifespan or how long do you expect before another
upgrade would then be needed?
Nick Miseirvitch, ClO, Information Technology
Generally servers should be upgraded every five years. The city doesn’t have the operating budget to do that. We get
every ounce of life out of these as we can. That’s why | target ten years and anything over ten years is we’re really
pushing the boundaries.
Alderman Gouveia
Just a follow up on the breakdown of servers. So if ten are the primary servers and five are backups, what data is
primarily in the backup servers and which data would you lose by not having the same amount of servers as both the
backup and primary.
