Information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment
Dear Education Authority, Northern Ireland,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I seek the following information about the
organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment:
1. What is your annual IT Infrastructure Budget for 2016, 2017 & 2018?
2. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
3. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? (Month/year)
4. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
5. What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
6. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
7. The total number of IT staff employed by the organization:
8. Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including
CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:
9. Please confirm if you are utilising desktop virtualisation technologies and if so how
many users do you provide services for?
10. What backup software do you use?
11. How much data do you backup in TB?
12. Number of servers?
13. What operating system(s) do you use?
14. Number of virtualised servers?
15. What percentage of your environment is virtualised?
16. If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
Yours faithfully,
Julie Cornish
20 December 2016
Dear Ms Cornish
Re: Information Request received on 18 December 2016. Our Ref: RFI/1054
I write further to your recent information request which is receiving
attention.
We are currently considering your request in more detail and will forward
a response to you as soon as possible.
If for any reason this situation changes, we will notify you.
Yours sincerely
Alberta Park
Information Officer
Education Authority
South Eastern Region
Grahamsbridge Road
Dundonald
BT16 2HS
T: 028 9056 6297
E: [1][email address]
W: [2]www.eani.org.uk; [3]www.seelb.org.uk
17 January 2017
Dear Ms Cornish
Re: Information Request received on 18 December 2016. Our Ref: RFI/1054
I write on behalf of the Education Authority to request a short extension
in order to respond in full to your request for information.
The Authority is currently collating the requested information and this
will be forwarded to you as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
Alberta Park
Information Officer
Education Authority
South Eastern Region
Grahamsbridge Road
Dundonald
BT16 2HS
T: 028 9056 6297
E: [1][email address]
W: [2]www.eani.org.uk; [3]www.seelb.org.uk
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27 January 2017
Dear Ms Cornish
Re: Information Request received on 18 December 2016. Our Ref: RFI/1054
I write on behalf of the Education Authority further to your recent request for information. Please find detailed the following information:-
1. Copy of your initial request.
2. The following information as per your request:
Please refer to the attached Education Authority response.
I trust you find the information provided helpful.
Please note that in relation to question 16 of your request for information, the Education Authority, having considered your request in full, is engaging Section 12 of the Freedom of Information of Information Act 2000 as the volume of possible IT re-sellers renders this question unanswerable as it exceeds the appropriate limit for responding to an FOI request under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act. The time involved in responding to question 16 has been determined as extensive as it involves collating information from five legacy organisations over an indeterminable period of time. This would involve determining whether information in held, locating, retrieving, and extracting the information and considering any third party obligations.
If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of this response or the handling of your request you have the right to appeal it by writing directly to the Head of Communications at the address below, within two calendar months of the date of this response.
Head of Communications
40 Academy Street
Belfast
BT1 2NQ
In the event that you remain dissatisfied, you have the right to complain further to the Information Commissioner’s Office at the address below:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely
Alberta Park
Information Officer
Education Authority
South Eastern Region
Grahamsbridge Road
Dundonald
BT16 2HS
T: 028 9056 6297
E: [email address]<mailto:[email address]>
W: www.eani.org.uk<http://www.eani.org.uk/>; www.seelb.org.uk<http://www.seelb.org.uk/>
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