Information technology infrastructure equipment - Find a freedom of information request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I write to obtain the following information about the organisation's information technology infrastructure equipment:

1. What is your annual IT Budget for 2020, 2021 & 2022?

2. Storage:

a. What storage vendor(s) and models do you currently use?

b. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB & How much of this is utilised?

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

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

e. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?

f. What is your estimated budget for the storage refresh?

3. Server/Compute:

a. What server vendor(s) and models do you currently use?

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

c. When is your planned (or estimated) server refresh date? (Month/Year)

d. What is your estimated budget for the server refresh?

e. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?

f. Which operating systems are used?

4. Security:

a. What security solutions are being utilised?

b. Do you have a SIEM?

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

d. Is it 24/7?

e. Name and role for IT Manager(s) / Officer(s) primarily responsible for cybersecurity

f. Names of all cyber security vendor(s) you use g. Cost, duration and end date for the above contract(s)/license(s)

5. Backup, DR and BC:

a. What device/system do you use for your daily backups (e.g tape or disk)

b. What backup software do you use?

c. How much data do you backup, in TB?

d. Do you use a third party to provide a Business Continuity service (e.g. office workplace recovery or infrastructure ship-to-site solutions)?

e. When is your estimated backup refresh?

f. Do you already backup into the cloud?

g. Do you back up M365?

6. Number of Physical servers?

7. How far are you in your cloud strategy?

a. Not considering Cloud for the foreseeable future

b. Interested in Cloud, but have not started looking into it

c. Research Stage

d. Meeting with Suppliers

e. Consultancy

f. Started to integrate

g. Fully integrated

8. Do you use Azure or Amazon Web Services?

9. Which IT services do you outsource? When do the contracts end?

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

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

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.

13. Who is Head of IT? - Please provide contact details

14. Who is Head of Procurement? - Please provide contact details

15. Do you have a managed/shared service with any other councils?

16. Do you normally purchase equipment and services as a capital investment (Cap-Ex) or ongoing operational charges (Opex)?

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. The budget for IMT was: • 2020 - £14,805k • 2021 - £14,706k • 2022 - £14,646k

2. a. HPE, 3PAR.

b. 743 TB, 73% in use, for on Premise.

c. 2018/12.

d. TBC, currently have no planned refresh dates.

e. Yes with HPE.

f. See question 2(d).

3. a. HPE, Proliant range.

b. 2018/12.

c. TBC, currently have no planned refresh dates.

d. See question 3(c).

e. HPE.

f. Lincolnshire County Council considers that the information requested under question 3(f) is exempt information under Section 31(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act and should not be disclosed. *

4. Lincolnshire County Council considers that the information requested under question 4 is exempt information under Section 31(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act and should not be disclosed. *

5. Lincolnshire County Council considers that the information requested under question 5 save 5(e) is exempt information under Section 31(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act and should not be disclosed. *

e. TBC, currently have no planned refresh dates.

6. 95.

7. Lincolnshire County Council have a number of partners and solutions in various cloud solutions, and predominately uses a best fit, thus some services are in Azure, some on prem and some with third parties and their cloud solutions. The council is well advanced in its provision so are heading towards g (Fully Integrated).

8. Yes.

9. All IT Services are outsourced to Serco. The contract will end 31 March 2024.

10. Softcat, Computacenter, Spherica Business Solutions Ltd, RM3733, GCloud, RM1599, RM6167, RM3808.

11. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) are not actively moving applications/infrastructure as a specific project but as new applications/systems are procured or systems/applications are re-engineered the Authority will look to cloud hosting as a preference in line with LCC IMT "Cloud First" strategy. John Wickens as Assistant Director IMT & Enterprise Architecture is responsible for IMT strategy.

12. 32.

13. John Wickens, contact customer services on 01522 552222.

14. Sophie Reeve, procurement.lincolnshire@lincolnshire.gov.uk

15. No.

16. Lincolnshire County Council uses both CapEx and OpEx depending on the type of purchase they are making.