T23/007 Further Competition for Smart Storage under SSSNA LOT 2 Storage

Description

Northumbria University has run a Mini-Competition under SSSNA Lot 2 Framework for a partner to help design and support the implementation of an expandable Enterprise Grade Storage Solution for Research data delivered by dedicated storage appliances. The solution will have four major elements to it: The solution must provide simultaneous multi-protocol access including SMB/NFS/S3/Restful APIs/HTTPS/ and SCP/SFTP and Rsync. Intelligent Tiered Storage (Hot, Standard, Archive) with the ability to move data between the tiers based on policy and activity. Lot 1: Northumbria University has run a mini-Competition under SSSNA Lot 2 for a partner to help design and support the implementation of an expandable Enterprise Grade Storage Solution for Research data delivered by dedicated storage appliances. The solution will have four major elements to it: The solution must provide simultaneous multi-protocol access including SMB/NFS/S3/Restful APIs/HTTPS/ and SCP/SFTP and Rsync. Intelligent Tiered Storage (Hot, Standard, Archive) with the ability to move data between the tiers based on policy and activity.