Information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment

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Dear University of Huddersfield,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I seek the following information about the
organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment:

1. What is your annual IT Infrastructure Budget for 2016, 2017 & 2018?
2. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
3. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? (Month/year)
4. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
5. What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
6. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
7. The total number of IT staff employed by the organization:
8. Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including
CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:
9. Please confirm if you are utilising desktop virtualisation technologies and if so how
many users do you provide services for?
10. What backup software do you use?
11. How much data do you backup in TB?
12. Number of servers?
13. What operating system(s) do you use?
14. Number of virtualised servers?
15. What percentage of your environment is virtualised?
16. If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.
17. Please also name all of the IT re-sellers that you work with and buy from, as well as the frameworks that you use for the release of any tenders etc.
18. Please also approximate the time spent managing your IT systems, specifically storage, per week in the unit of man hours. Also approximate the amount of time taken carving out LUNs and/or Volumes.
19. Please list any and all pain points that the IT teams, and organisation as a whole, experience with regard to the storage and usage of the virtualised workloads.
20. How is your storage connected, i.e. via Fibre Channel, Ethernet (NFS or ISCSi). If your storage is currently connected via Fibre Channel, do you have access to 10 GB Ethernet, or 1 GB ethernet, and if so, please declare which.

Yours faithfully,

Julie Cornish

Freedom of Information requests, University of Huddersfield

Dear Ms Cornish,

I acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request, received on 12 January 2017.

Your request is being considered and you will receive the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, as defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the information not being exempt.

If the information you request contains reference to a third party then they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or not to release the information to you.

Yours sincerely

Tracey Buxton
FOI Administrator

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Freedom of Information requests, University of Huddersfield

Dear Ms Cornish,

Having considered your request further, we require further information from you to progress our response. Under Section 1(3) of the Act we are able to seek further clarification from you in order to identify and locate the information you have requested. Please note that the statutory 20 working day time limit does not commence until such clarification is received.

With regard to question 1, could you please confirm whether you are referring to capital expenditure and/or on-going maintenance. Subject to your clarification, we are proposing to provide this information by financial year (1 August - 31 July) and presume that this is acceptable to you.

Further information about the Freedom of Information Act can be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, http://www.ico.gov.uk/Home/what_we_cover....

Yours sincerely.

Tracey Buxton
FOI Administrator

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Freedom of Information requests, University of Huddersfield

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Dear Ms Cornish,

Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Buxton
FOI Administrator

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