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Dear Sir/Madam,

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?

Many Thanks,

Gordon Adams

Freedom of Information, East Sussex County Council

Dear Mr Adams

FOI Request ref: 7502 / IT Infrastructure

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Amilia Holland
Customer Information Adviser

East Sussex County Council
Communities Economy and Transport Directorate
W1D, County Hall
St Anne’s Crescent
Lewes
East Sussex BN7 1UE

Phone: 01273 482913
Fax: 01273 481208
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Freedom of Information, East Sussex County Council

 

 

Dear Mr Adams

 

FOI Request ref: 7502 / IT Infrastructure

 

Thank you for your request for information about the above. We always aim
to respond as quickly as possible, but we do need you to clarify your
request before we will be able to process it.

 

 Number of IT Staff – Does this include contractors or just FTE staff?

 

 What automation tools do you use? – Please define “automation tools”

 

Your request is on hold pending receipt of your clarification. Please
quote the above reference number in any communication regarding this
request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Jeremy Coleman

Customer Information Officer

 

East Sussex County Council

Communities Economy and Transport Directorate

W1D, County Hall

St Anne’s Crescent

Lewes

East Sussex BN7 1UE

 

Phone: 01273 482913
Fax: 01273 481208

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Hi Jeremy,

Number of IT Staff – Does this include contractors or just FTE staff?

Both contractors and FTE, please highlight each separately

What automation tools do you use? – Please define “automation tools”

Tools capable of automating process such as SCCM and vRealize

Yours sincerely,

Gordon Adams

Freedom of Information, East Sussex County Council

Dear Mr. Adams,

 

 

FOI Request ref: 7502 / IT Infrastructure

 

Thank you for your request for information about the above. Your clarified
request was received on 22/08/2016 and I am dealing with it under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

The amended due date for this response is 22/08/2016, notably today, and
we will look to get this response to you as soon as possible.

 

Please quote the above reference number in any communication regarding
this request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Rebecca Harper

Customer Information Advisor

Communities, Economy & Transport | East Sussex County Council

W1D, County Hall

St Anne’s Crescent

Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1UE

 

Phone: 01273 482913

Fax: 01273 481208

Email: [email address]       Web:
www.eastsussex.gov.uk

 

         

 

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Dear Mr Adams

 

FOI Request ref: 7502 / IT Infrastructure

 

Thank you for your request for information about the above, which has been
dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Your request and our response are set out below. Please note that any
information we provide is subject to the copyright and reuse of
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REQUEST

 

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?

 

RESPONSE

 

General

•           Number of Sites 145

•           Number of Employees – June 2016 (latest available
data) headcount 10,844 of staff directly employed by ESCC

•           Number of IT Staff –

Substantive staff 163
Vacancies due to secondments 4
Vacancies 14
Vacancies (Maternity Leave) 2
Agency (covering vacancy) 3
Agency/Contract (additional posts) 21

 

•           Annual IT Budget

Desktop

•           Number of Desktops? 4706 laptops and 2195 desktops

•           Do you use VDI? - Yes

•           If so what platform do you use? - Citrix

•           Desktop Refresh date? – Ongoing refresh cycle

•           Date support contract ends?

•           VDI refresh date (if relevant)?N/A

 

Datacentre

•           Number of Windows Servers?400

•           Number of UNIX/Linux Servers?10 – appliance based.

•           Server platform?Dell

•           Virtualisation platform?Dell

•           What operating system do you use?VMware

•           Virtualisation refresh dates?

•           Percentage Virtualised?70%

•           Server Refresh Date?Ongoing

•           Value of contract?

•           Location of datacentre(s) Lewes & Eastbourne

 

•           Volume of Data in TBs 90TB

•           Storage Vendor? EMC

•           Storage Virtualisation?N/A

•           Storage Refresh Date?

•           Date Storage support contract ends?

•           Value of contract?

 

•           Tape vendor? N/A

•           Disk backup? Yes

•           What backup software do you use?Netbackup

•           Backup refresh date N/A

•           Date backup support contract ends N/A

•           Value of support contract

•           Disaster Recovery contract renewal date?

 

•           Network vendor? Cisco

•           Network speed? Up to 10Gb

•           Storage network? EMC

•           Network refresh date.

•           Value of contract

•           Do you use WAN optimisation?No

•           If so what product do you use?N/A

•           Network virtualisation?Yes

 

Applications

•           Database vendors? Microsoft

•           Email provider? Microsoft

•           CRM Provider?Microsoft

•           ERP Platform? SAP

•           Database Archival?n?A

•           Email Archival?Enterprise Vault

•           File Archival?N/A

 

Cloud

•           Are you using or are interested in AWS/Google or Azure for
cloud services? - Yes

•           Do you use any Cloud File Storage? If so, what? - No

•           What automation tools do you use? – SCCM

•           Do you outsource? - No

•           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?
Attached…Please note that the names and contact details of staff are
personal data, as defined by Section 1 data Protection Act 1998. This
information is exempt from disclosure under the FOIA by Section 40(2)

 

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Jeremy Coleman

Customer Information Officer

 

East Sussex County Council

Communities, Economy and Transport

W1D, County Hall

St Anne’s Crescent

Lewes

East Sussex BN7 1UE

 

Phone: 01273 482913
Fax: 01273 481208

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