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Dear Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please could you provide me with the following information;
1) Your total annual budget
2) Your current number of full time employees.
3) Your annual IT budget.
4) A copy of your current ICT strategy document.
5) What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
a. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)?
b. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
c. What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
d. What date does your storage support contract end? (Month/year)
e. What is the value of your storage support contract?
f. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
6) What backup software do you use?
a. How much data do you backup in TB?
b. When is your planned (or estimated) backup software refresh date? (Month/year)
c. What is the estimated budget for your backup software refresh?
d. When does your backup support contract end? (Month/year)
e. What is the value of your backup support contract?
7) What compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
a. Number of servers?
b. Virtualisation platform?
c. When is your planned (or estimated) compute refresh date? (Month/year)

Yours faithfully,

Mark Minor

Sandwell MBC, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Mr Mark Minor
 
 
Your request for information has been passed to an investigating officer.
 
Your reference is FS-Case-11238235
 
 
Thank you
 
Sandwell MBC

Anita Foxroberts, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

 

Dear Mark Minor,

 

 

Freedom of Information Request – FS11238235

 

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 4th January, 2017.

 

In order to process your request further I am seeking clarification from
you in regards to:

 

1)            Your total annual budget – are you referring to Sandwell MBC
or ICT?

2)            Your current number of full time employees – are your
referring to Sandwell MBC or ICT?

 

Once we receive clarification from you, we will begin to process your
request and respond to you within the 20 working day time limit.

 

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authority need not comply with a request unless any further information
reasonably required to locate the information is supplied. If I do not
receive clarification from you by 18th January, 2017 your request will be
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Yours sincerely

 

 

Anita Fox-Roberts

Service Management Analysis

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Anita Foxroberts,

Both refer to Sandwell MBC.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Minor

Sandwell MBC, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Mark Minor,
 
Information Request - FS-Case-11238235
 
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. In response to your
request I can confirm the following:
 
 
1) Your total annual budget
http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/downloads/dow...
2) Your current number of full time employees. • SMBC = 4986 3) Your
annual IT budget. • £8,036,900.00 4) A copy of your current ICT strategy
document. • ICT strategy 5) What storage vendor(s) and model do you
currently use? • Nep App - FAS35250 &FAS2552 • Nep App – FAS2520 • HP –
P4500 2 a. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)?
• 2012 – 2016 b. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date?
(Month/year) • 2018 – 2020 c. What is your estimated budget for the
refresh? • Not known d. What date does your storage support contract end?
(Month/year) • March 2019 e. What is the value of your storage support
contract? • Approx. as some procurement was undertaken by BT as per Joint
Partnership between SMBC and BT. = £135k f. What is the capacity of the
storage data in TB? • 120TB Corporate NetApp • 120TB Backup Filer 6) What
backup software do you use? • NetApp SNAPVAULT • SNAPMIRRORING a. How much
data do you backup in TB? • Approx. 112TB over 7 days b. When is your
planned (or estimated) backup software refresh date? (Month/year)
• 2018-2020 c. What is the estimated budget for your backup software
refresh? • No Known d. When does your backup support contract end?
(Month/year) • November 2017 – March 2019 e. What is the value of your
backup support contract? • NetApp SnapVault are within the main
hardware/software support and is not split. • NetBackup = £2,400. 7) What
compute vendor(s) and model do you currently use? • HP & Oracle • HP
DL360, DL365, DL380, BL460, BL465, BL685, T4-2, T5-2, M10, T2000 a. Number
of servers? • Approx. 200 Physical • Approx. 400 VM's b. Virtualisation
platform? • VMWARE c. When is your planned (or estimated) compute refresh
date? (Month/year) • 2018-2020
 
 
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Yours sincerely
 
Sandwell MBC