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36. EXCEPTION TO TECHNOLOGY FINANCE PROGRAM FOR REFRESH PURCHASE OF SUPERIOR COURT DATA STORAGE REPOSITORY Approve an exception to the Technology Finance Program (TFP) to allow Court Technology Services (CTS) of the Superior Court to purchase data storage repository equipment named Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) through a one-time expenditure from fund balance in the Superior Court Special Revenue Fund (259). Total cost estimated not-to-exceed $19,300. In addition, pursuant to A.R.S. § 42-17106, transfer expenditure appropriation in the amount of $19,300 from Non-Departmental (470) Non-Departmental Grants Fund (249) Non-Recurring (0001) Potential Expenditures from Fund Balance line to Superior Court (800) Superior Court Special Revenue Fund (259) Non-Recurring (0001). CTS last expanded the data storage repository about eighteen months ago after analyzing available disk space and rate of space consumption. Ultimately, CTS purchased enough additional disks to last this period of time. CTS has consumed the projected amount of space and must make additional storage available to allow for the iCIS database to grow as expected. The price of the quoted drives, with tax, is $19,202 and will provide 4.8 TB terrabytes (1.0 terrabyte equals 1,000 gigabytes) of additional raw disk space or approximately 3.6 TB of usable space. This amount of space will allow the EVA to store data until the EVA reaches end of life and is completely replaced with a new unit along with other iCIS related hardware. As the EVA storage solution is the primary data storage repository, running out of disk space on the CTS Enterprise Data Storage system would be catastrophic as without expansion, iCIS would cease to function. (C-80-10-002-2-00)