Data Storage Center buys foreign iron and software for 8 billion

On May 14, 2019, it became known that the subsidiary of Rostelecom"" - LLC Data storage center"" over the past two and a half months has significantly intensified in terms of purchases of foreign "iron" and, ON having launched four tenders with initial contract prices totaling 8.5 billion rubles. As the monitoring of the site shows, the state procurements company has not had other such concentrated spending over the past six years, noted in. CNews

In particular, on March 4, 2019, a request for quotations in electronic form for the supply of Hitachi Vantara equipment with a starting price of 2.8 billion rubles was launched. The winners were determined on April 10, 2019. They were two companies at once: Universal Technologies and Croke Incorporated, which proposed ratios for reducing the initial cost of goods of 0.9115 and 0.9143, respectively. That is, the required equipment will go to the customer for about 2.55 billion rubles.

On April 24, 2019, the Data Storage Center announced the purchase of Hewlett Packard equipment with an initial contract price of 3.5 billion rubles. Applications from applicants were accepted until May 14. The results will be announced on May 31, 2019.

On April 29, 2019, the customer posted a purchase notice from Croke Incorporated as the only possible supplier of Veritas software and its technical support for 261 million rubles.

On May 8, 2019, a tender was launched for the supply of equipment software Cisco and with a starting price of 1.95 billion rubles. Applications from applicants will be accepted until May 24, the winner is scheduled for June 14, 2019.

In a conversation with CNews, Rostelecom limited itself to indicating that these purchases "are aimed at maintaining and developing the current infrastructure." "These are framework agreements fixing prices for equipment for different periods - from year to several years. Moreover, without a redemption obligation, "the representative of the operator added.

As follows from the documents posted on the public procurement website, under Hitachi the Vantara brand "daughter" of Rostelecom, seven G 900 disk arrays are required for, Moscow DPCs as well as various elements for completing the G 900, G 800 and G 400 arrays.

Through Hewlett Packard, the customer intends to purchase many different servers (ML350, DL360, DL380, etc.) and blades, as well as Ethernet adapters, keyboards, monitors, etc.

In terms of software, Veritas "Data storage center" aimed at licenses for Netbackup backup programs and solutions. Cisco is talking about various network solutions - almost 9 thousand items in the delivery specification, CNews noted.^[1]

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