Primary Department: Universal Services
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Sindhu Menon - Executive Director and CIO
Managing Department: Universal Services
Managing Department Head/Elected Official: Sindhu Menon - Executive Director and CIO
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Investment Memo
Investment Memo Type: Final Investment Memo
Project Name: Mission Critical Systems to Cloud Disaster Recovery Infrastructure
Project ID (if applicable): NI052
Vendor Legal Name (if applicable): N/A
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWBE Current Achievement (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): Choose an item.
Incremental Authorization Requested: $1,700,000
Total Estimated Project Cost: $2,850,000 (FY26-FY27)
Request Summary:
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Request for approval of a Final Investment Memo for the Mission Critical Systems to Cloud Disaster Recovery Infrastructure project, for an incremental amount of $1,700,000, for a total authorization of $2,596,400, and commercial paper funding in the amount of $1,100,000 for a total allocation of $2,000,000.
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Project Description:
This project is for Mission Critical Systems to be replicated in the Information Technology Disaster Recovery Cloud environment as a redundant backup. This investment will help restore mission critical systems and data, minimizing downtime and potential data loss and allow IT infrastructure to continue operations in case of a major incident, cyber-attack, natural or human-made disaster.
This project will focus on design, develop, migrate, deploy, and manage the mission critical applications in Cloud Infrastructure, along with the different services that are needed to run Harris County Information Technology operations seamlessly. The project will cover top-tier Harris County applications and plan...
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