Dear West College Scotland,

Please could you provide the following information:

General

• Number of Sites

• Number of Employees

• Number of IT Staff

• Annual IT Budget

Datacentre

• Location of datacentre(s)

• Number of Servers

• Number of Windows Servers

• Number of UNIX/Linux Servers

• What operating system do you use?

• Percentage Virtualised

• Virtualisation platform

• Server Vendor

• Server Refresh Date

• Date Server Support contract ends

• Value of contract

• Volume of Data in TBs

• Storage Vendor

• Storage Refresh Date

• Date Storage support contract ends

• Value of contract

• What do you Backup to (hardware)?

• What backup software do you use?

• Software contract end date

• Volume of backup data TB

• Cost of software per TB

• Date backup support contract ends

• Value of support contract (annually)

• What networking equipment do you use in the Datacentre?

• Refresh date

• Date support contract ends

• Value of contract

• Do you use WAN optimisation?

• If so what product do you use?

Desktop

• Desktop vendor

• Number of Desktops

• Do you use VDI?

• If so what platform do you use?

• Desktop Refresh date

• Date support contract ends

Applications:

• Database vendors

• Email provider

• Number of mail boxes

• ERP Platform

• CRM Provider

• Database Archival

• Emaill Archival

• File Archival

In addition please could you provide a copy of your IT Strategy for

2016 and an Organisation chart depicting the IT department with

contact names?

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Smith