IT Infrastructure

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Dear The Institute of Cancer Research,

Please could you provide the following information?

General
· The number of Sites
· The number of Employees
· The number of IT Staff
· The amount of the annual IT budget
Desktop
· The number of Desktops?
· Do you use VDI?
· If so what platform do you use?
· When is the desktop Refresh date?
· When is the date support contract ends?
· When is the VDI refresh date (if relevant)?

 Datacentre
· The number of Windows Servers?
· The number of UNIX/Linux Servers?
· What technology is the server platform?
· What technology is the virtualisation platform?
· What operating system do you use?
· What is the virtualisation refresh dates?
· What percentage of the environment is Virtualised?
· When is the server Refresh Date?
· What is the value of contract?
· Where are the datacentres?

· What is the volume of Data in TBs
· Which storage vendor/manufacturer do you use?
· Do you use Storage Virtualisation?
· When is the Storage Refresh Date?
· When does the Storage Support contract end?
· What is the value of contract?
 
• What is the Tape vendor branch used?
• Do you use disk backup?
• What backup software do you use?
• When is the Backup refresh date?
• What is the value of support contract?
• When is the 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
· What are the Database vendors ued?
· What is the Email provider used?
· What is the CRM Provider used?
· What is the ERP Platform used?
· What is the Database Archival used?
· What is the Email Archival used?
· What is the File Archival used?

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?
· When is the 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?

Yours faithfully,

Sue

foi, The Institute of Cancer Research

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