ICT Hosts and Storage Area Network - AWARD

This tender will address the following infrastructure 10 Hosts - these devices are large powerful server technologies which supply the business application servers in a virtual environment (vmWare). This allows ICT to maximise the use of these hosts CPU and Memory, giving the lowest cost per server delivery mechanism. It also allows ICT to deliver business application servers in the shortest time frames. Approx. 100TB of useable storage (Storage Array Network - SAN) - this device is a high-performance disk storage array which allows ICT to centralise the server / application storage requirements, maximising the use of the storage and giving the lowest cost per Terabyte. It also allows for additional application resilience / protection during upgrades via the use of clones (copies) and snapshots.