vendor-agnostic 3rd party advice
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONSEstimated Value
£2,000 – £5,000
Deadline
16 June 2015
Published
10 June 2015
Type
Not specified
Overview
The scope of this project is to engage with a vendor-agnostic 3rd party to advise TPR of any shortcomings or potential improvements with our current backup solution(s). TPR currently uses a number of different products to backup and replicate data, some of which have not been updated for over a year.
TPR runs a 99% virtualised environment using VMWare products and when the backup solution was implemented in 2007, physical servers were still in use. There may a case for investigating more efficient backup methods and architectures.
We would therefore like consultation on the following areas: - recommended best platform or process for backup of SQL servers – Netbackup agent/maintenance plan/other technology - is Netbackup still best suited to our environment? we currently have a mix of the following technologies: 1. Netbackup v7.5 2.
Additional details
Veeam 3. Datacore replication 4. SQL mirroring - TPR is still using LTO3 tapes – any benefit of upgrading to LTO6? - Set up/tweak retention periods in line with best practice – currently a lot of time spent manually expiring backup tapes - Check for duplicate backups, and backups of backups. - Check Falconstor setup and version – also deduplication and replication schedules – upgrade if needed - Check Veeam setup and version – upgrade if needed
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- 1
IBM UK Ltd
2 contracts wonlatest 29 Sept 2025£23m
total awarded
- 2
IBM United Kingdom Limited
1 contract wonlatest 20 Aug 2026ends 19 Aug 2028£3m
total awarded
- 3
Trustmarque Solutions Limited
1 contract wonlatest 12 Jun 2026ends 14 Mar 2031£18m
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- 4
Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, UK Branch
1 contract wonlatest 1 Jun 2026ends 30 Nov 2027£3m
total awarded
- 5
Cognizant Worldwide Ltd.
1 contract wonlatest 3 Apr 2025£4m
total awarded
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Department For Work and PensionsKey Dates
Published
10 June 2015
Submission deadline
16 June 2015
Renewal expected50% confident
January 2017
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