IT Infrastructure

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Dear North West Kent College,

Please could you provide the following information?
General
• Number of Sites
• Number of Employees
• Number of IT Staff
• Annual IT Budget

Datacentre
• Location of datacentre(s)
• Number of Servers
• Number of Windows Servers
• Number of UNIX/Linux Servers
• What operating system do you use?
• Percentage Virtualised
• Virtualisation platform
• Server Vendor
• Server Refresh Date
• Date Server Support contract ends
• Value of contract

• Volume of Data in TBs
• Storage Vendor
• Storage Refresh Date
• Date Storage support contract ends
• Value of contract

• What do you Backup to (hardware)?
• What backup software do you use?
• Backup refresh date
• Date backup support contract ends
• Value of support contract

• What networking equipment do you use in the Datacentre?
• Refresh date
• Date support contract ends
• Value of contract
• Do you use WAN optimisation?
• If so what product do you use?

Desktop
• Desktop vendor
• Number of Desktops
• Do you use VDI?
• If so what platform do you use?
• Desktop Refresh date
• Date support contract ends

Applications:
• Database vendors
• Email provider
• Number of mail boxes
• ERP Platform
• CRM Provider
• Database Archival
• Emaill Archival
• File Archival

In addition please could you provide a copy of your IT Strategy for 2015 and an Organisation chart depicting the IT department with contact names?

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Sue Crowe

Joanna Lewis,

Dear Sue

The following is our response to your FOI request received on 7 December
2015.

You may wish to note that the College name was changed in September 2015
to NORTH KENT COLLEGE

Our responses are as follows:

 

    Please could you provide the following information?
    General
    • Number of Sites   - 5
    • Number of Employees - 499
    • Number of IT Staff - 8
    • Annual IT Budget – Commercially sensitive

    Datacentre
    • Location of datacentre(s) – Dartford and Gravesend College campus
    • Number of Servers – circa 60
    • Number of Windows Servers – circa 60
    • Number of UNIX/Linux Servers – circa 2
    • What operating system do you use? – Windows 7
    • Percentage Virtualised - 10
    • Virtualisation platform - Microsoft
    • Server Vendor – Commercially sensitive
    • Server Refresh Date - Internal
    • Date Server Support contract ends – Commercially sensitive
    • Value of contract - Commercially sensitive

    • Volume of Data in TBs - 12
    • Storage Vendor - Commercially sensitive
    • Storage Refresh Date- Internal
    • Date Storage support contract ends- Commercially sensitive
    • Value of contract - Commercially sensitive

    • What do you Backup to (hardware)? – Data Centre
    • What backup software do you use? - Veeam
    • Backup refresh date - Internal
    • Date backup support contract ends - Commercially sensitive
    • Value of support contract - Commercially sensitive

    • What networking equipment do you use in the Datacentre? - Cisco
    • Refresh date - Internal
    • Date support contract ends - Commercially sensitive
    • Value of contract - Commercially sensitive
    • Do you use WAN optimisation? - no
    • If so what product do you use? – n/a

    Desktop
    • Desktop vendor - Stone
    • Number of Desktops - 2500
    • Do you use VDI? - Yes
    • If so what platform do you use? - Microsoft
    • Desktop Refresh date - Internal
    • Date support contract ends - Commercially sensitive

    Applications:
    • Database vendors - None
    • Email provider - Microsoft
    • Number of mail boxes - Commercially sensitive
    • ERP Platform - None
    • CRM Provider - None
    • Database Archival - None
    • Emaill Archival - None
    • File Archival - None

    In addition please could you provide a copy of your IT Strategy for
    2015 and an Organisation chart depicting the IT department with
    contact names?  - Commercially sensitive

 

As you can see a number of responses are deemed to be commercial in
confidence such that the College will not be providing the information
requested.

 

The College will tender for new contracts as and when required. These will
be advertised at the time.

 

I believe this completes your FOI request.

 

Joanna Lewis

FOI Officer

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