IT Infrastructure

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Dear Capel Manor College,
 
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?

Yours faithfully,

Sue Crowe

Natalie Daniel-Tong, Capel Manor College

Dear Sarah
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act. The College consider the information you requested to be commercially sensitive and the reason for your enquiry is for commercial benefit (not public). Therefore, we have decided we cannot respond in the detail you have requested.
Kind regards
Dr Steve Dowbiggin

Dear Natalie Daniel-Tong,

I hope you are well.

The information requested is public information and therefore is no exempt.

Please could you review your decision not to respond.

Yours sincerely,

Sue

Sharon Finch, Capel Manor College

Dear Sarah
Thank you for your response.
The College is looking into this and will feedback to you shortly.
Regards
Sharon Finch

Sharon Finch, Capel Manor College

Dear Sue / Sarah

Please find below answers to the questions you requested.

Regards

Sharon

Dear Capel Manor College,
 
Please could you provide the following information?

General
· Number of Sites  - 5
· Number of Employees - 250
· Number of IT Staff - 2
· Annual IT Budget – £80K
Desktop
· Number of Desktops? - 750
· Do you use VDI? – No
· If so what platform do you use? – N/A
· Desktop Refresh date? - N/A
· Date support contract ends?  - N/A
· VDI refresh date (if relevant)? – N/A

 Datacentre
· Number of Windows Servers? - 50
· Number of UNIX/Linux Servers? - 5
· Server platform? – 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012 R2
· Virtualisation platform? - VMWARE
· What operating system do you use? – 7 & 8
· Virtualisation refresh dates?  - N/A
· Percentage Virtualised? - 85
· Server Refresh Date? – N/A
· Value of contract? – N/A
· Location of datacentre(s) - Enfield

· Volume of Data in TBs - 10
· Storage Vendor? - HP
· Storage Virtualisation?  - HP
· Storage Refresh Date?  - N/A
· Date Storage support contract ends? - 2017
· Value of contract? – N/A
 
· Tape vendor? – N/A
· Disk backup? - Yes
· What backup software do you use? - VEEAM
· Backup refresh date – N/A
· Date backup support contract ends - 2017
· Value of support contract -
· Disaster Recovery contract renewal date? – N/A
 
· Network vendor? - JICS
· Network speed? – 1GB
· Storage network? - HP
· Network refresh date – N/A
· Value of contract – N/A
· Do you use WAN optimisation? - No
· If so what product do you use? – N/A
· Network virtualisation? – N/A
  
Applications
· Database vendors? - SQL
· Email provider? - Microsoft
· CRM Provider? – N/A
· ERP Platform? – N/A
· Database Archival? – N/A
· Email Archival? – N/A
· File Archival? – N/A

Cloud
· Are you using or are interested in AWS/Google or Azure for cloud
services? – No
· Do you use any Cloud File Storage? If so, what? - No
· What automation tools do you use? - ?
· Do you outsource? - No
· Outsource contract renewal date? – N/A
 
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?

The College does not have an IT strategy and any other information is
available on our website.

Yours faithfully,

Sue Crowe

 

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Sharon Finch, Capel Manor College

Dear Sarah
I have responded by email to your request.
Regards
Sharon