Disclosure Scotland telephony and storage systems: FOI release
- Published
- 25 February 2025
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400411193
- Date received
- 25 April 2024
- Date responded
- 14 May 2024
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
Information about "Telephony and Storage".
1. Telephony and UC/ Collaboration
Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place
When is your contract renewal date?
Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones?
MS Teams and Slack
2. Microsoft
What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5?
Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant?
Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which?
3. Storage
Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both?
Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer.
Please confirm your cloud storage provider.
What is your annual spend on cloud storage?
How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service.
Response
1. Telephony and UC/ Collaboration
Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place.
Mitel.
When is your contract renewal date?
New contract in place now which is active until 8th November 2024 with the option of two 12 month extensions.
Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
Daisy Corporate Services Trading (Ltd).
Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones?
MS Teams and Slack.
2. Microsoft
What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5?
We use a managed service from central Scottish Government.
Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant?
We use a managed service from central Scottish Government.
Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which?
We use a managed service from central Scottish Government.
3. Storage
Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both?
Both.
Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer.
We use a managed service from central Scottish Government.
Please confirm your cloud storage provider.
Amazon AWS.
What is your annual spend on cloud storage?
$739,218.92 > £589,704.50 per year and exchange rate currently 0.80 as of 13/05/2024.
How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service.
AWS EBS-Other and S3. We use a managed service from central Scottish Government for non AWS infrastructure.
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Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG