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Dear Fife Council,

Please could you provide the following information:

1. Number of Sites
2. Number of Employees
3. Number of IT Staff
4. Annual IT Budget for current financial year
5. Number of Datacentres and locations, owned or third party
6. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
a. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)?
b. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
c. What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
d. What date does your storage support contract end? (Month/year)
e. What is the value of your storage support contract?
f. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
g. Is your storage hosted by a third party or onsite?
7. What backup software and hardware do you use?
a. How much data do you backup in TB?
b. When is your planned (or estimated) backup software refresh date? (Month/year)
c. What is the estimated budget for your backup software refresh?
d. When does your backup support contract end? (Month/year)
e. What is the value of your backup support contract?
f. Is your backup hosted by a third party or retained onsite?

8. What compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
a. Number of servers?
b. What operating system(s) do you use?
c. What percentage is virtualised?
d. Virtualisation platform?
e. When is your planned (or estimated) compute refresh date? (Month/year)
f. When does your compute support contract end? (Month/year)
g. What is the value of the compute support contract?
h. Is this hosted by a third party or onsite?

9. If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.

10. In addition, please provide a copy of your current IT Strategy and an organisation chart depicting the IT department with contact names and telephone numbers.

Yours faithfully,

Carol

Fife Council

Dear Carol,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Thank you for your information request received on 12/06/2019, IT Systems, our ref: 27463. This is being dealt with in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

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Yours sincerely,

K. Henderson

Kay Henderson, Fife Council

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Dear Carol,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

I refer to your email dated and received 12/06/2019, our ref 27463. 

 

I am pleased to enclose the information you requested and trust that it
meets your requirements.

 

Request

Please could you provide the following information:

1. Number of Sites - 491 networked sites

2. Number of Employees  - 17,000+

3. Number of IT Staff - 230

4. Annual IT Budget for current financial year -  Approx £13.6m

5. Number of Datacentres and locations, owned or third party - 2 owned,
Glenrothes and Dunfermline

6. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?

 

o Netapp E5624
o Netapp E2712
o DELL/EMC Centera
o DELL/EMC VNX5400
o DELL/EMC VNX5600

     a. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? 2016
     b. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date?
(Month/year) c. What is your     

         estimated budget for the refresh? 2022. Budget estimate is
unknown.
     d. What date does your storage support contract end? (Month/year) e.
What is the value of    

         your storage support contract? 2022. Support included in original
purchase.
     f. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB? 592 TB
     g. Is your storage hosted by a third party or onsite? Onsite

7. What backup software and hardware do you use? Commvault Simpana v11
, Netapp E2712.

     a. How much data do you backup in TB?  112.5 TB
     b. When is your planned (or estimated) backup software refresh date?
(Month/year)  06/21 

     c. What is the estimated budget for your backup software refresh?
£150k
     d. When does your backup support contract end? (Month/year) 06/21

     e. What is the value of your backup support contract? incl in
software subscription
     f. Is your backup hosted by a third party or retained onsite? Onsite
subscription

8. What compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use? Scottish
Procurement Framework

     a. Number of servers? 930
     b. What operating system(s) do you use? Windows & Solaris
     c. What percentage is virtualised? 86%
     d. Virtualisation platform? HyperV, Solaris
     e. When is your planned (or estimated) compute refresh date?
(Month/year) 10/2019

     f. When does your compute support contract end? (Month/year)
05/2020. 

     g. What is the value of the compute support contract?  £25,149
     h. Is this hosted by a third party or onsite? 3rd Party

9. If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when
the contract started and ends. We do not outsource our IT Works

10. In addition, please provide a copy of your current IT Strategy and an
organisation chart depicting the IT department with contact names and
telephone numbers.

 Please find attached ICT Strategy, BTS Structure and BTS Manager contacts

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Kay Henderson

Information Specialist

Information Management & Requests

Customer Experience Service

Communities Directorate

1st Floor

Fife House

North Street

GLENROTHES

Fife

KY7 5LT

 

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