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1. What is your annual IT Budget for 2020-2022;
a) 2020/21: £2,163,470
b) 2021/22: £1,591,250
c) 2022/23: No budget information available yet.

2. Storage:
a) What storage vendor(s) and models do you currently use?
HP MSA 2040 SAN.

b) What is the capacity of the storage data in TB & How much of this is utilised?
118.9 TB 39.7% Utilised.

c) What were the installation dates of the above storage vendor(s)? (Month/Year)
July 2015.

d) When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/Year)?
August 2021.

e) Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?
Park Place Technologies.

f) What is your estimated budget for the storage refresh?
£50,000.

3. Server/Compute:
a) What server vendor(s) and models do you currently use?
HP Proliant.

b) What were the installation dates of the above server vendor(s)? (Month/Year)
April 2021.

c) When is your planned (or estimated) server refresh date? (Month/Year)
2026 unless 100% cloud by then.

d) What is your estimated budget for the server refresh?
No budget, we purchase via Capital when/if required.

e) Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?
Park Place Technologies.

f) Which operating systems are used?
Windows 2019.

4. Security:
a) What security solutions are being utilised?
Various, unable to provide specifics in case it highlights vulnerabilities or opens to attack attempts.

b) Do you have a SIEM?
Yes.

c) Do you have a SOC? If so, is it in house or outsourced?
Hybrid.

d) Is it 24/7?
Some areas are.

e) Name and role for IT Manager(s) / Officer(s) primarily responsible for cybersecurity
Colin Belcher, Security Engineer; David Clifton, Jazmin Halloran, Infrastructure Engineers; James Bull, Infrastructure Archictect.

f) Names of all cyber security vendor(s) you use
Microsoft.

g) Cost, duration and end date for the above contract(s)/license(s)
Cost based on usage so difficult to report, end of contract 2024.

5. Backup, DR and BC:
a) What device/system do you use for your daily backups (e.g tape or disk)
Azure backup & Disk.

b) What backup software do you use?
Azure and Veeam.

c) How much data do you backup, in TB?
Varies depending on type of back up performed, e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, and moved to cloud basked backups now.

d) Do you use a third party to provide a Business Continuity service (e.g. office workplace recovery or infrastructure ship-to-site solutions)?
No.

e) Does your current recovery solution meet your stakeholder’s RTO/RPO expectations?
yes.

f) Do you already backup into the cloud?
Yes.

g) Do you have a documented disaster recovery & business continuity plan in place?
Yes.

6. Number of Physical servers?
Fifteen with eight due to be decommissioned in the next six months.

7. How far are you in your cloud strategy?
Fully integrated

8. Do you use Azure or Amazon Web Services?
Azure.

9. Which IT services do you outsource? When do the contracts end?
None.

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

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

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.
Seventy.

13. Who is Head of IT? – Please provide contact details
Glynn Davies. 0118 974 6000. imt.procurement [at] wokingham.gov.uk

14. Who is Head of Procurement? – Please provide contact details
Paul Ohsan-Ellis, 0118 974 6000. Procurement [at] wokingham.gov.uk

15. Do you have a managed/shared service with any other councils?
No.

16. Do you normally purchase equipment and services as a capital investment (Cap-Ex) or ongoing operational charges (Opex)?
Cap-Ex for one off 1st yr Costs, Opex for ongoing recurring costs.

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