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9. EXCEPTION TO THE TECHNOLOGY FINANCE PROGRAM Approve an exception to the Technology Finance Program (TFP) to allow the Clerk of the Superior Court (160) to purchase six servers with required software and peripheral equipment outright with one-time FY 2008-09 savings in the Clerk of the Superior Court's Judicial Collection Enhancement Fund (208) operating budget (0000). The hardware and software will be used to enhance the capacity, flexibility, and availability of the production servers hosting the primary applications and databases of the Clerk's Office. The current production server system in the Clerk's Office is not configured or configurable to support an environment of load balancing or high availability that new WEB applications require. The new Cash Receipting application has need of several servers to afford load balancing, easy expansion, fail-over capacity, and is required to run on SQL 2005 versus the existing SQL 2000 database server. With the current WEB server limitations and the need for Hot Site redundancy, additional server capacity is necessary for the mission critical Cash Receipting application. The purchase of the SQL 2005 database servers and blade servers will provide increased capacity and flexibility to handle several new applications and provide the necessary server flexibility and redundancy. (C-16-09-006-2-00)