The city of San Jose on Tuesday proposed its $2.9 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2016-17. The budget includes details about proposed projects and spending in the city's IT department, which would have a $21.6 million budget:
- $500,000 in one-time funding to perform network upgrades at the city's remote facilities, such as community centers. "For those remote sites that provide wired and wireless access for public and private use, upgrading their network equipment to a single standardized platform significantly reduces the likelihood of security breaches and equipment failure, and reduces IT support demands," the city explains.
- $200,000 for server replacement, as part of a two-year plan to replace 25 of the city's 300 servers.
- $510,000 for virtual desktop infrastructure and Windows upgrades
- $250,000 would go toward completion of San Jose's secondary data center located at the Central Service Yard.
- $150,000 in ongoing funding to provide "direct connectivity to Microsoft and Amazon cloud services, allowing for rapid connectivity to Office 365 and enhanced security by separating critical operations from the Internet when the city comes under a cyber/denial of service attack"
- During 2016-17, the city also will continue a Microsoft 365 phased SharePoint deployment and a Customer Relationship/Service Request Management system.
