Wessex Water has gone out to tender with a contract for data storage services worth an estimated £1.2 million.
The contract covers the provision of storage and backup services for the following two Lots:
Lot 1: Enterprise Storage Services
Lot 2: Enterprise Backup, Recovery and Archive Services.
The water company’s current storage and backup services are based on a number of technologies distributed across key sites within the YTL Utilities (UK) estate. This includes NetApp, IBM, HP and Brocade technologies that provide various Storage Area Network and Direct Attached Storage services and backup and recovery capabilities.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 21st April 2017 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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