Provision of Enterprise Data Back Up Solution

Tender description

UCD IT Services provides all central IT applications, support and infrastructure for staff and students throughout the University. As part of our annual refresh of critical Infrastructure equipment, UCD IT Services have the following requirement: UCD IT Services are looking to upgrade or replace our existing on-campus Backup Solutions. The main objective being to move UCD to one backup solution that includes backup to disk and archive to cloud. The overall solution must include Enterprise class backup software to backup our physical and virtual servers, an on-campus backup to disk deduplication device, as well as native archive to cloud capability. The Cloud solution must also provide a good level of future proofing for backup/data retention policies. The solution should also include a native solution to manage the cloud based backup data only; this should include archival to cloud and automatic cloud storage tiering. Lot 1: UCD IT Services provides all central IT applications, support and infrastructure for staff and students throughout the University. As part of our annual refresh of critical Infrastructure equipment, UCD IT Services have the following requirement: UCD IT Services are looking to upgrade or replace our existing on-campus Backup Solutions. The main objective being to move UCD to one backup solution that includes backup to disk and archive to cloud. The overall solution must include Enterprise class backup software to backup our physical and virtual servers, an on-campus backup to disk deduplication device, as well as native archive to cloud capability. The Cloud solution must also provide a good level of future proofing for backup/data retention policies. The solution should also include a native solution to manage the cloud based backup data only; this should include archival to cloud and automatic cloud storage tiering. Please refer to the tender documentation.