Published date: 3 April 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 April 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer storage units - 30233100

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

Replacement Storage Area Network Storage as a Service

Published date

3 April 2017

Closing date

21 April 2017

Contract start date

31 May 2017

Contract end date

30 May 2022

Contract type

Not specified

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Rossendale currently utilises two IBM N-Series (Net App) Storage Area Network (SAN) systems to provide storage to our virtualised VMware infrastructure. The SANs connect to our vSphere hosts via iSCSI over our Cisco network switches. The SANs are hosted at the Node4 Tier 3 Data Centre.
The SAN is used to connect to the DraaS service that provide the disaster Recovery service for the organisation. All back is performed disk to disk there are no tape storage devices.

There is potential to use the additional functionality built-in to SAN technology, particularly in terms of tiering and the benefits of using SSDs and flash. The ability to easily scale-up available storage without having to periodically invest in large amounts of capital expenditure is also required.

The full tender documentation and required specification can be found on the Rossendale Borough Councils website http://www.rossendale.gov.uk/downloads/download/713/provision_of_storage_area_network_storage_as_a_service

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About the buyer

Address

The Business Centre
Futures Park
Bacup
OL13 9NX
England

Email

procurement@rossendalebc.gov.uk

Website

www.rossendale.gov.uk