FOI - IT Infrastructure

Please could you provide the following information?



General

� Number of Sites

� Number of Employees

� Number of IT Staff

� Annual IT Budget



Desktop

� Number of Desktops?

� Do you use VDI?

� If so what platform do you use?

� Desktop Refresh date?

� Date support contract ends?

� VDI refresh date (if relevant)?



Datacentre

� Number of Windows Servers?

� Number of UNIX/Linux Servers?

� Server platform?

� Virtualisation platform?

� What operating system do you use?

� Virtualisation refresh dates?

� Percentage Virtualised?

� Server Refresh Date?

� Value of contract?

� Location of datacentre(s)



� Volume of Data in TBs

� Storage Vendor?

� Storage Virtualisation?

� Storage Refresh Date?

� Date Storage support contract ends?

� Value of contract?



� Tape vendor?

� Disk backup?

� What backup software do you use?

� Backup refresh date

� Date backup support contract ends

� Value of support contract

� Disaster Recovery contract renewal date?



� Network vendor?

� Network speed?

� Storage network?

� Network refresh date

� Value of contract

� Do you use WAN optimisation?

� If so what product do you use?

� Network virtualisation?



Applications

� Database vendors?

� Email provider?

� CRM Provider?

� ERP Platform?

� Database Archival?

� Email Archival?

� File Archival?



Cloud

� Are you using or are interested in AWS/Google or Azure for cloud services?

� Do you use any Cloud File Storage? If so, what?

� What automation tools do you use?

� Do you outsource?

� Outsource contract renewal date?



In addition, please could you provide a copy of your IT Strategy for 2017 and an Organisation chart depicting the IT department with contact names?