Digital Strategy

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Dear Sea Fish Industry Authority,
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

foi, Argyll and Bute Council

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Dear Ms McDermot,

Thank you for your e-mail, Argyll and Bute Council is not a Sea Fish Industry Authority.

We can log your request for consideration for the Council if you wish?

Regards,

David

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Dear Argyll and Bute Council,

My apologies. Yes, please can you log this for Argyll and Bute Council.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Hannah

Administrator, Argyll and Bute Council


Dear Hannah McDermot

Request for information: Sea fish industry - digital strategy

Thank you for your information request which we have logged as reference
argyllbuteir:11377.

It has been passed to the relevant service(s) for attention and you should
receive a response under either the Freedom of Information (Scot) Act 2002
or the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 by 2020-03-26
00:00:00.

Please quote the reference number above in any correspondence you may have
with the Council in regard to this request.

Regards

FOI Officer

Privacy information: Any personal information you have provided in
relation to this request will be used only for the intended purpose -
please read the full privacy notice to find out more about how your
personal information will be handled, and your rights under data
protection legislation.

Anderson, Fiona, Argyll and Bute Council

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Dear Ms McDermot,

 

I would be grateful if you could clarify what information you are looking
for in relation to Q1 – Number of sites?

By sites do you mean the number of offices used by Argyll and Bute Council
employees?

 

Many thanks,

Fiona

 

 

Fiona Anderson [3]CSE Small (7)

Compliance and Regulatory Officer

Legal and Regulatory Support

Argyll and Bute Council

Kilmory

Lochgilphead

Argyll

PA31 8RT

Tel: 01546 604255

Email:  [1][email address]

 

[2]www.argyll-bute.gov.uk

Argyll and Bute - Realising our potential together

 

 

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Sinclair, David (Risk Management Assistant), Argyll and Bute Council

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Dear Ms McDermot

 

Request for information: Digital strategy

Reference: argyllbuteir:11377.

 

I refer to your request for information which was dealt with in terms of
the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).

 

1. Number of Sites - Response: 144

2. Number of Employees 4375

3. Number of IT Staff - Response: 55

4. Annual IT Budget for current financial year £3.551m Revenue and £0.908m
Capital
5. Number of Datacentres and locations, owned or third party - Response:
2, Lochgilphead and Helensburgh, both owned.

6. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use? - Response: IBM
(model details withheld due to security) a. When was the installation date
of above storage vendor(s)? - Response: Nov 2019 b. When is your planned
(or estimated) storage refresh date?  - Response : Nov 2024 c. What is
your estimated budget for the refresh? - Response: Information  not held
d. What date does your storage support contract end? (Month/year) -
Response: Nov 2024 e. What is the value of your storage support contract?
- Response: £98,860 over 5 years f. What is the capacity of the storage
data in TB? - Response: 100TB
7. What compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use? - Response: HP
(Model detail information withheld) a. Number of servers? - Response: 475
b. Virtualisation platform? - Response: VM Ware and Power 9 c. When is
your planned (or estimated) compute refresh date? (Month/year) -
Response:  Annual Refresh of % of compute estate from April 2020 d. When
does your compute support contract end? (Month/year) - Response: No
contract
8. Do you currently utilise VDI? - Response: No a. How many desktops do
you delivery VDI to? - Response: N/A b. What infrastructure underpins your
VDI environment? - Response: N/A c. What broker do you use for VDI -
Response: N/A
9. Do you utilise public cloud? - Response: No a. How much is your annual
spend on public cloud facilities? - Response: N/A b. What cloud provider
do you use? - Response: N/A

 

I have refused your request for the second part of question 7 under
section 30(c) of FOISA, which states that information is exempt
information if its disclosure would otherwise prejudice substantially or
be likely to prejudice substantially, the effective conduct of public
affairs.

 

The Council’s position in regard to these parts of your request is that
the release of this information into the public domain, would in our view
be likely to compromise the Council’s effective operation of its IT
security, as it would allow a determined individual to target attacks on
our systems more precisely and effectively and the disruption to our IT
systems as a result of a successful attack, would limit the Council’s
ability to conduct its business effectively.

 

In terms of the Data Protection Act 2018, the Council must take measures
to ensure the integrity and security of its IT system and to release the
information you have requested to the public at large, as we would be
doing be releasing it to you, would be counteractive to the obligation
placed on the Council by the 1998 Act.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request for information
has been dealt with you are entitled to request a review by writing to the
Executive Director Customer Services, Argyll and Bute Council, Kilmory,
Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8RT, or by email to [Argyll and Bute Council request email].

 

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correspondence, specify the request for information to which your request
for review relates and why you are dissatisfied with the response. 

 

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the expiry of the 20 working day period for response to your initial
request by the Council, or not later than 40 working days after the
receipt by you of the information provided, any fees notice issued or any
notification of refusal or partial refusal.

 

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decision you are dissatisfied with or within 6 months of the expiry of the
period of 20 working days from receipt by the Council of your request for
review.

 

Yours sincerely

 

David Sinclair

Compliance and Regulatory Assistant

Legal and Regulatory Support/Compliance

Argyll & Bute Council

Kilmory

PA31 8RT

Tel:01546604352

 

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Dear Sinclair, David (Risk Management Assistant),

Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,

Hannah