Council authorizes purchase of cloud-based hyperconverged infrastructure

Council adopted Resolution 2026-01 on Jan. 5 to authorize purchase of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to replace the city’s aging server storage and virtualization environment.

Councilmember Abernathy introduced the resolution and said the current server environment is past its useful life and increasingly costly to maintain: “It’s more cost efficient and, honestly, just better for the city as a whole to just get a whole new system together.” Staff answered questions about security and whether the new system would be cloud-based; staff said the procurement would use a state contract and indicated the infrastructure will be cloud-hosted. Council moved and seconded the resolution and approved it by roll-call vote.

Staff said the HCI purchase is a budgeted item and will modernize computing, storage and virtualization for city operations; no timeline for deployment beyond staff’s assurance that lead times through the state contract looked reasonable at the time of the meeting.