Information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment

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Dear South Gloucestershire Council,

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, South Gloucestershire Council

Dear Ms Cornish

Thank you for your recent request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I have sent your request to our IT department who will provide a response to your request.
The 20 day period for considering your request commenced on 04 May 2017.

In the event that the information you have requested is to be disclosed, it will be sent to you no later than 02 June 2017. If we cannot respond by that date then we will write to you again.

Yours sincerely
Jo-Anne Parker
Customer Relations Support Officer
South Gloucestershire Council
Chief Executive & Corporate Resources Department
Finance & Customer Services
 
Telephone: 01454 86 6208
Email: [email address]
Post: PO Box 300, Customer Relations, Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 0DS

My working days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

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