Data Centres

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Dear Forth Valley College,

Under the Freedom of Information Act I would gratefully request the provision of the following information:

How many Data and/or Disaster Recovery Centres does your
organisation currently use, if this facility is not centralised but is distributed throughout your network please provide the total number of facilities in use for this purpose.
If supplied through a contract, who is the operator of the
facility.
If supplied through a contract, what is the start and end dates of the contract, please include any contract extensions available within the contract.
General location of data centre (the town/city, not specific
address).
Total available space (square foot and data capacity).
Total space used (square foot and data capacity).
Power consumption per data centre.
Do you have any plans related to your Data and/or Disaster Recovery Centres such as increasing the number or outsourcing the services.

Number of desktops in the organisation.
Number of users of ICT within the organisation.
Number of sites connected to your Wide Area Network.
What e-mail system do you currently utilise.
What server OS do you currently utilise (Windows, UNIX, LINUX) and in what numbers (i.e number of UNIX servers in use etc).

Yours faithfully,

Joseph King

FOI, Forth Valley College

Dear Mr King,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request which we received on Friday 10 February 2012.

Our response will be sent within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely
Stephen Jarvie
Policy and Planning Officer

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linda.mckay, Forth Valley College

Dear Mr King,

 

Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 1992. Please find below our responses to your questions.

 

How many Data and/or Disaster Recovery Centres does your organisation
currently use, if this facility is not centralised but is distributed
throughout your network please provide the total number of facilities in
use for this purpose. – There is one facility used for this purpose.

 

If supplied through a contract, who is the operator of the facility. –
This is not supplied through a contract.

 

If supplied through a contract, what is the start and end dates of the
contract, please include any contract extensions available within the
contract. – Not Applicable

 

General location of data centre (the town/city, not specific address). -
Alloa

 

Total available space (square foot and data capacity)- 1 TB, 26m squared

 

Power consumption per data centre. – Power consumption data is not held in
a manner that allows identification of data centre use.

 

Do you have any plans related to your Data and/or Disaster Recovery
Centres such as increasing the number or outsourcing the services. – No

 

Number of desktops in the organisation. – 1800

 

Number of users of ICT within the organisation. – 18,490

 

Number of sites connected to your Wide Area Network. – 4

 

What e-mail system do you currently utilise. – Microsoft Exchange

 

What server OS do you currently utilise (Windows, UNIX, LINUX) and in what
numbers (i.e. number of UNIX servers in use etc.). – Linux and Windows
2008 R2, 5 Linux servers(2 physical and 3 virtual)  and 61 windows servers
(physical and virtual)

 

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Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle,
Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS.  Telephone 01334 

464610.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Linda McKay

Principal

 

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