Backup and Storage Infrastructure Upgrade

Descriptions

1.1.Due to a need to facilitate Agile/Smarter Working, Business Continuity and improve Data Protection compliance the Council intends to replace its existing backup system, move the majority of its servers to a virtual environment, and migrate existing file server data to SAN storage.1.2.The existing Anglesey County Council Production Storage is now also End of Availability (NetApp 2040) with the vendor and is limited in expandability to provision for future council application workloads. The Council requires more shared storage to provision more applications on the Production Data Centre infrastructure taking advantage of high service availability and lower application deployment costs.NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=16703.The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.