Information about telephony and storage

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.23.028698

I note you seek access to the following information:

Dear Metropolitan Police Service (MPS),

1. Telephony and UC/ Collaboration
a. Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place
b. When is your contract renewal date?
c. Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
d. Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones?

2. Microsoft
a) What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5
b) Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant?
c) Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which?

3. Storage
a. Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both?
b. Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer c. Please confirm your cloud storage provider d. What is your annual spend on cloud storage?
e. How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Q1 - Telephony and UC/ Collaboration
A - Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place.

Avaya and Cisco

B - When is your contract renewal date?

April 2024

C - Who maintains your telephony system(s)?

British Telecom (BT)

D - Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools, if so which ones?

No Information Held

Q2 - Microsoft
A - What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5

E5

B - Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant?

Capgemini

C - Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which?

Both.

Q3 - Storage
A - Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both?

On-premise

B - Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer

Dell EMC

C - Please confirm your cloud storage provider

No Information Held

D - What is your annual spend on cloud storage?

No Information Held

E - How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service?

On-premise to long retention disk