Crawford County IT Director Brandon Spaur presented the commissioners with the annual VMware maintenance renewal with a substantial increase in cost. In past years, the annual cost for cyber protection was $1,000 — this year, it skyrocketed to $13,680. Spaur said that one reason for the increase was the purchase of VMware by a larger corporation, BroadCloud, that requires a minimum core count purchase of 190. The county has only required 32. Core count is the amount of processing cores in a CPU and is an indication of how many tasks the CPU can handle simultaneously.
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