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- The Executive & Finance Committee authorized up to $350,000 from 2025 bond funds to replace end-of-life server hardware and software, directing the IT director to proceed with procurement. - The IT director reported the virtualized system purchased in 2022 faces production end-of-life by 2030, with VMware software renewal costs rising from $25,000 to $40,000 annually. - The county plans to migrate production workloads to new equipment and repurpose the old system for backups, archives, and emergency redundancy, targeting a solution that lasts through 2035. - The IT director estimated the new solution could cost $300,000 to $350,000,…

- IT Director Jim Matowski told the Finance Committee the city will shut down both its data centers by 2029, moving nearly all systems to the cloud when VMware licenses expire. - The city's aging HPE storage area network is now maintained by third-party Parkplace Technologies because HP warranty is unavailable on the 10-year-old equipment. - VMware licensing costs jumped from $2,000 to $28,000 under Broadcom, prompting a five-year strategy document and a mandate to migrate or change virtualization platforms. - The committee reviewed a $275,000 SharePoint migration project funded with $70,000 in 2027, plus 2028 and 2029 allocations, to move…