Cloud Infrastructure and Data Storage
Case reference FOI2025/01171
Received 18 June 2025
Published 14 July 2025
Request
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your council’s IT infrastructure, with a specific focus on data storage and cloud adoption. Please provide responses to the following questions:
1. Data Centres and On-Premise Facilities
1a. How many data centres, server rooms, or similar on-premise facilities are currently operated or managed by the council?
1b. Please provide a breakdown of each type.
2. Data Storage
2a. What is the breakdown of the council’s data stored across the following environments?
Please provide either the percentage or numerical breakdown for each type:
- On-premise
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid (a mix of on-premise and cloud)
3. Cloud Migration
3a. Has the council migrated any data or services to the cloud in the past three years?
3b. If applicable, can you provide a list of systems migrated (e.g., HR, CRM, Finance, etc.)?
3c. If applicable, please could you provide the cloud service provider(s) used for each migration?
4. Cloud Adoption Policy
4a. Does the council have a formal cloud adoption policy?
5. Cloud Data Location Monitoring
5a. Does the council monitor the physical location of its cloud-hosted data (answer yes or no)?
5b. If applicable, please can you provide how this is tracked?
6. Financial Information on IT Infrastructure
6a. For the past five years, can you provide the annual spend on your IT Infrastructure?
6b. If applicable, please provide the breakdown of spend for each year of the last 3 years and for each of the following categories:
- Hardware (Servers, Computers, Network Devices, Storage Systems)
- Software
- Networks
- Data Centres
- Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Security Systems
- IT Service Management
- External consultancy for cloud migration or IT modernisation
Please provide all data and responses in an editable Excel spreadsheet format (.xlsx).
Response
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your council’s IT infrastructure, with a specific focus on data storage and cloud adoption. Please provide responses to the following questions:
1. Data Centres and On-Premise Facilities
1a. How many data centres, server rooms, or similar on-premise facilities are currently operated or managed by the council?
1b. Please provide a breakdown of each type.
2. Data Storage
2a. What is the breakdown of the council’s data stored across the following environments?
Please provide either the percentage or numerical breakdown for each type:
- On-premise
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid (a mix of on-premise and cloud)
3. Cloud Migration
3a. Has the council migrated any data or services to the cloud in the past three years?
3b. If applicable, can you provide a list of systems migrated (e.g., HR, CRM, Finance, etc.)?
3c. If applicable, please could you provide the cloud service provider(s) used for each migration?
4. Cloud Adoption Policy
4a. Does the council have a formal cloud adoption policy?
5. Cloud Data Location Monitoring
5a. Does the council monitor the physical location of its cloud-hosted data (answer yes or no)?
5b. If applicable, please can you provide how this is tracked?
6. Financial Information on IT Infrastructure
6a. For the past five years, can you provide the annual spend on your IT Infrastructure?
6b. If applicable, please provide the breakdown of spend for each year of the last 3 years and for each of the following categories:
- Hardware (Servers, Computers, Network Devices, Storage Systems)
- Software
- Networks
- Data Centres
- Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Security Systems
- IT Service Management
- External consultancy for cloud migration or IT modernisation
Please provide all data and responses in an editable Excel spreadsheet format (.xlsx).
Answer: Please see the attached FOI2025 01171 Response Spreadsheet, as requested.
Documents
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