Data services

Tender description

SDNPA would like to procure an enterprise wide managed IaaS comprising of a thin client environment for approximately 185 users (circa 120 concurrent network logins) based at offices located in the South Downs National Park. SDNPA requires a solution that provides a secure, highly available and efficient network to run their applications and to store and manage their data. Nearly all of SDNPA’s business applications are currently accessed via, or run on, servers remotely located at the current supplier’s data centre and SDNPA’s users access the environment using remote desktop technology. The current remote environment is built up from a number of virtualised servers (circa 20) and these include a ‘farm’ of load-balanced remote desktop servers; an Exchange server; four webservers; a file server; a print server; a SQL server and three application servers. SDNPA would like to procure an enterprise wide managed IaaS comprising of a thin client environment for approximately 185 users (circa 120 concurrent network logins) based at offices located in the South Downs National Park. SDNPA requires a solution that provides a secure, highly available and efficient network to run their applications and to store and manage their data. Nearly all of SDNPA’s business applications are currently accessed via, or run on, servers remotely located at the current supplier’s data centre and SDNPA’s users access the environment using remote desktop technology. The current remote environment is built up from a number of virtualised servers (circa 20) and these include a ‘farm’ of load-balanced remote desktop servers; an Exchange server; four webservers; a file server; a print server; a SQL server and three application servers.