ICT Infrastructure

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Dear Brighton and Hove City Council,

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? If so, to which organisation?
• Outsource contract renewal date?

In addition please could you provide a copy of your most recent ICT strategy document and an Organisation chart depicting the IT department with names & contact details?

Yours faithfully,

Sam Lewis

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