Digital Strategy
Dear Scottish Sports 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?
7. What compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
a. Number of servers?
b. Virtualisation platform?
c. When is your planned (or estimated) compute refresh date? (Month/year)
d. When does your compute support contract end? (Month/year)
8. Do you currently utilise VDI?
a. How many desktops do you delivery VDI to?
b. What infrastructure underpins your VDI environment?
c. What broker do you use for VDI
9. Do you utilise public cloud?
a. How much is your annual spend on public cloud facilities?
b. What cloud provider do you use?
Yours faithfully,
Hannah McDermot
Dear Hannah,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. This has been
acknowledged and we will respond by 27th March 2020.
Kind regards
Tamsin
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Tamsin Nankivell | Senior Legal Officer | sportscotland Doges | Templeton
on the Green | 62 Templeton Street | Glasgow | G40 1DA
t: 0141 534 6601 | m: 07721118126
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Jennifer
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Jennifer Edmonstone | Senior Legal Officer | sportscotland
Doges | Templeton on the Green | 62 Templeton Street | Glasgow | G40 1DA
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Good morning,
sportscotland is committed to openness, transparency and accountability,
as always, but both our business and staff have been impacted by
Covid-19. This has meant a delay in our ability to respond to your
request within the usual 20 working day timelines. We apologise and
appreciate your understanding at this time.
Please therefore find answers to your queries below:-
Please could you provide the following information?
1. Number of Sites - 12
2. Number of Employees - 400
3. Number of IT Staff - 13
4. Annual IT Budget for current financial year - £1,483,900 (including
salaries)
5. Number of Datacentres and locations, owned or third party - Two data
centres, Glasgow & Edinburgh, owned
6. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use? Dell VXRail &
Netapp
a. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? VXRail -
May 2019, Netapp May 2018
b. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
VXRail - May 2024, Netapp May 2023
c. What is your estimated budget for the refresh? No budget assigned.
d. What date does your storage support contract end? (Month/year)
VXRail - May 2024, Netapp May 2023
e. What is the value of your storage support contract? No separate
cost. Included with h/ware costs for manufacturer warranty
f. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB? 74 Tb
7. What compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use? Dell VXRail,
Dell, HP
a. Number of servers? 10 VXrail Nodes, 10 standalone servers
b. Virtualisation platform? VMWare
c. When is your planned (or estimated) compute refresh date? (Month/year)
May 2024
d. When does your compute support contract end? (Month/year) May 2024
8. Do you currently utilise VDI? No
a. How many desktops do you delivery VDI to? n/a
b. What infrastructure underpins your VDI environment? n/a
c. What broker do you use for VDI n/a
9. Do you utilise public cloud? Yes
a. How much is your annual spend on public cloud facilities? £84, 000
b. What cloud provider do you use? Microsoft
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Kind regards,
Jennifer
Jennifer Edmonstone | Senior Legal Officer | sportscotland
Doges | Templeton on the Green | 62 Templeton Street | Glasgow | G40 1DA
t: 0141 534 1175| m: 07817 288 763
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