The Hampshire Village Board unanimously approved the purchase of a bank of 100 general support hours at $90 an hour from Entre Computer Solutions, Machesney Park.
“The village has utilized the services of Entre Computer Solutions for (information technology) support for just over a year,” Lori Lyons, village finance director, told the board this week. “During that time, we have made great strides in being proactive in monitoring our servers at Village Hall and the police department as well as the workstations and laptops in all village of Hampshire locales. The village prioritized its needs and wants in developing and implementing an IT plan.”
Lyons said that over the past year, the village computer systems did experience one serious virus, but Entre was able to take care of it.
“To date, the experience with Entre has been great,” Lyons said. “Entre is providing network support, including monitoring of backups, supervision of software expirations, management of server software updates, managed anti-virus protection, and proactive monitoring of the two servers and workstations. The server upgrade and ToughBook laptops for the police department have been implemented with Entre’s assistance.”
Denise Moran is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.