You asked
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I seek the following information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment:
What is your annual IT Infrastructure Budget for 2016, 2017 & 2018?
What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? (Month/year)
When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
The total number of IT staff employed by the organization:
Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:
Please confirm if you are utilising desktop virtualisation technologies and if so how many users do you provide services for?
What backup software do you use?
How much data do you backup in TB?
Number of servers?
What operating system(s) do you use?
Number of virtualised servers?
What percentage of your environment is virtualised?
If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.
Please also name all of the IT re-sellers that you work with and buy from, as well as the frameworks that you use for the release of any tenders etc.
Please also approximate the time spent managing your IT systems, specifically storage, per week in the unit of man hours. Also approximate the amount of time taken carving out LUNs and/or Volumes.
Please list any and all pain points that the IT teams, and organisation as a whole, experience with regard to the storage and usage of the virtualised workloads.
How is your storage connected, i.e. via Fibre Channel, Ethernet (NFS or ISCSi). If your storage is currently connected via Fibre Channel, do you have access to 10 GB Ethernet, or 1 GB ethernet, and if so, please declare which.
We said
Many thanks for your request. The answers to you questions are as follows;
What is your annual IT Infrastructure Budget for 2016, 2017 & 2018?
Approx 4-5M
What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
EMC - VNX
When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? (Month/year)
07/16
When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
07/22 at earliest
What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
n/a - storage in terms of hybrid/private/fullyblown cloud provision and Central Government/departmental strategy will influence this
What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
circa 2.5PB
The total number of IT staff employed by the organization:
circa 250
Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:
Please confirm if you are utilising desktop virtualisation technologies and if so how many users do you provide services for?
Not currently (one small bespoke VDI implementation has existed for circa 75 users)
What backup software do you use?
Veritas Netbackup
How much data do you backup in TB?
175TB
Number of servers?
750
What operating system(s) do you use?
windows, linux, esx, aix
Number of virtualised servers?
600
What percentage of your environment is virtualised?
80
If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.
n/a
Please also name all of the IT re-sellers that you work with and buy from, as well as the frameworks that you use for the release of any tenders etc.
Tech Products 2, rm1054 etc; resellers are appointed based on successful tenders; there are no incumbent resellers.
Please also approximate the time spent managing your IT systems, specifically storage, per week in the unit of man hours. Also approximate the amount of time taken carving out LUNs and/or Volumes.
Less than 15 hours per week in these BAU storage activities
Please list any and all pain points that the IT teams, and organisation as a whole, experience with regard to the storage and usage of the virtualised workloads.
None
How is your storage connected, i.e. via Fibre Channel, Ethernet (NFS or ISCSi). If your storage is currently connected via Fibre Channel, do you have access to 10 GB Ethernet, or 1 GB ethernet, and if so, please declare which.
Fibre Channel, 10GB