IWB, storage infrastructure

With this tender, IWB aims to identify three competent, efficient and customer-oriented block storage suppliers (hereinafter providers) for long-term cooperation. The three providers should deliver the block storage systems and support them in the event of an error (support in accordance with the SLA requirements in Section 1.4 below). Specific order call-offs are made in accordance with the mini-tender procedure described in section 1.4. The awarding authority is pursuing the following goals with this procurement: 1) Modernizing the existing storage infrastructure 2) Modern, powerful, scalable, highly available storage solution 3) High transparency regarding utilization and configuration of the storage solution 4) Efficient operational processes in operation, maintenance and support of the storage solution 5) Transparent, comprehensible and easily predictable costs in the event of further expansions 6) High level of maturity of the support organization of the storage solution itself, but also with regard to his experience in planning highly available or disaster-tolerant solutions. The intention is to conclude a framework agreement with three providers for the procurement of new storage systems over the next 5 years. The current status is listed in Appendix C1 Storage Inventory. From this, the providers can see that IWB has generally used systems from IBM for block storage. IWB intends to replace the entire storage inventory and provide it with corresponding new SLAs over the next five years. These or comparable equivalent systems are to be offered. Below are the block storage manufacturers we currently use: · HPe · IBM