Jisc Services Ltd Tiered Storage - Competitive Dialogue

Tender description

JSL wishes to provide Jisc members (covered under the Janet Eligibility Policy in section 1.1 of the PQQ document) with a national Tiered Storage Service which would provide storage for different applications including research data management; research information management; digital asset management and library management systems; backup and disaster recovery; preservation and curation archiving; secure data storage; enterprise data and systems (e.g. financial, personnel, academic records, estate management, human resources, corporate affairs, public relations); virtual learning environments; data staging for high performance computing; private cloud virtual infrastructure (such as Hyper-V or VMWare). In our initial forecasts, JSL would anticipate the service initially providing a total storage capacity of 0.75PB of hot storage and 2.5PB of cold storage to around three Jisc members in the first year, and scaling to 35PB hot storage/110PB cold storage and serving thirty Jisc members in year five. Keywords: Storage, Software, National, Tiered, Jisc, Cloud