Monaghan County Council wishes to tender for: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (HCI) Solution, Associated Equipment and Services, and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Supply and installation of a Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solution at the Monaghan County Council Datacentre in The Glen, Monaghan. The solution must include all relevant hardware and software to enable an active/active or active/passive deployment and meet the solution requirements detailed in Appendix 1. The Contracting Authority also requires an efficient and cost-effective Cloud based solution for data backup and disaster recovery, including backups and disaster recovery for physical and virtual machines, application aware and file level backup for business-critical applications, and live ransomware protection of the virtual machines running. In addition to this as part of the tender the contracting authority requires the supply and installation of a cloud based Secure Service Edge (SSE) solution that must meet the solution requirements detailed in Appendix 1.