IT Infrastructure

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Dear University of Essex,

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?
 
• Which network vendor is used?
• What is the network speed?
• What storage network is used?
• When is the network refresh date?
• What Is the value of the contract?
• Do you use WAN optimisation?
• If so what product do you use?
• Network virtualisation?
  
Applications
· What are the Database vendors used?
· 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

Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Sue

Thank you for your enquiry. Please take a look at our answers to frequently asked FOIs at http://www.essex.ac.uk/it/about/default..... If you have any specific questions that are not covered by this information, please let me know.

Best wishes
Clare

Freedom of Information Team
IT Services
University of Essex
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Essex
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