Currently SSC have 9,000 HP/UX servers in its datacenters. For this procurement process 380 HP/UX instances on 190 physical servers running a variety of applications from multiple client departments will need to be migrated over a 2-year period from contract award to a new computing processing equipment provided by the Supplier.
Eleven departments have been identified as potential clients for these services.
These 190 physical servers are currently located in various Data Centers across Canada.
SSC estimate that about 15% of these servers have critical applications running on them that have redundant computer processing equipment located in different data centres.
SSC would like the selected Vendor to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with the following objectives:
Full transparency regarding consumption
Efficient use of capital
Free up SSC resources from infrastructure tasks
High availability and prevention of downtime
Flexibility and agility for future capacity requirements
