Infrastructure Environment

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Derby City Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Gabrielle Gibbons

Dear Derby City Council,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I write to obtain the following information about the organisation’s information technology infrastructure equipment:

1. What is your annual IT Budget for 2020, 2021 & 2022?
2. Storage:

a. What storage vendor(s) and models do you currently use?
b. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB & How much of this is utilised?
c. What were the installation dates of the above storage vendor(s)? (Month/Year)
d. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/Year)?
e. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?
f. What is your estimated budget for the storage refresh?

3. Server/Compute:
a. What server vendor(s) and models do you currently use?
b. What were the installation dates of the above server vendor(s)? (Month/Year)
c. When is your planned (or estimated) server refresh date? (Month/Year)
d. What is your estimated budget for the server refresh?
e. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?
f. Which operating systems are used?

4. Security:
a. What security solutions are being utilised?
b. Do you have a SIEM?
c. Do you have a SOC? If so, is it in house or outsourced?
d. Is it 24/7?
e. Name and role for IT Manager(s) / Officer(s) primarily responsible for cybersecurity
f. Names of all cyber security vendor(s) you use
g. Cost, duration and end date for the above contract(s)/license(s)

5. Backup, DR and BC:
a. What device/system do you use for your daily backups (e.g tape or disk)
b. What backup software do you use?
c. How much data do you backup, in TB?
d. Do you use a third party to provide a Business Continuity service (e.g. office workplace recovery or infrastructure ship-to-site solutions)?
e. When is your estimated backup refresh?
f. Do you already backup into the cloud?
g. Do you back up M365?

6. Number of Physical servers?

7. How far are you in your cloud strategy?
A. Not considering Cloud for the foreseeable future
B. Interested in Cloud, but have not started looking into it
C. Research Stage
D. Meeting with Suppliers
E. Consultancy
F. Started to integrate
G. Fully integrated

8. Do you use Azure or Amazon Web Services?

9. Which IT services do you outsource? When do the contracts end?

10. Please also name all of the IT re-sellers that you work with and buy from, as well as the frameworks utilised.

11. Are you actively moving any applications/infrastructure into a cloud environment? If so who is responsible for this?

12. What is the total number of IT staff employed by the organization: Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable.

13. Who is Head of IT? – Please provide contact details

14. Who is Head of Procurement? – Please provide contact details

15. Do you have a managed/shared service with any other councils?

16. Do you normally purchase equipment and services as a capital investment (Cap-Ex) or ongoing operational charges (Opex)?

Yours faithfully,

Gabrielle Gibbons

FOI, Derby City Council

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Derby DE1 2FS | Telephone 01332 640763 | Minicom 01332 640666 | Web:
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Dear Gabrielle,

I acknowledge your request for information received on 07 July 2022 about
Infrastructure Environment.

Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team | Information Governance | Corporate Resources
Directorate | Derby City Council, Council House, Corporation Street, Derby
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Dear Gabrielle,

 

The Council confirms it holds information that falls within the
description of your request.  However, part of the information is covered
by an exemption under Freedom of Information Act 2000.  We have attached
part of the information and this email is a part Refusal Notice.

 

The exemption applied is Section 31: Law Enforcement

 

This exemption applies to question 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, 11,  because We
can neither confirm or deny we hold this information - please see the IT
security/cyber security guidance published on our website at
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for more information about non-disclosure reasons.

 

The exemption applied is Section 21: information reasonably accessible by
other means.

 

This exemption applies to question 10 because Under Section 21 of the
Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request
if it is already reasonably accessible to you.  The information you
requested is available at
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For your information this request has cost the Council £25.00 to process.

 

You can ask for the decision not to disclose the information to be
reviewed under the Council’s FOI Complaints Procedure.  Please send your
appeal reasons within 40 working days to the …

 

Information Governance Officer (FOI)
Derby City Council
The Council House
Corporation Street
Derby
DE1 2FS

Telephone 01332 640763 or e-mail [3][Derby City Council request email]

 

You may also apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision under
section 50 of the Act but he may decline to deal with your application if
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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information Team | Corporate Resources Directorate | Derby City
Council | The Council House| Corporation Street |Derby | DE1 2FS
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