Request
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
Outcome
Information withheld.
Response
I can confirm that The National Archives holds information relevant to your request.
We are unable to provide you with this information in this response because it is covered by the exemption at section 21 of the FOIA. For further information about why an exemption has been applied, please see the Explanatory annexe at the end of this letter.
The information you have requested is exempt under Section 21 of the FOI Act as it is already published in the public domain and is contained in a previous FOI response and published on our website. The answers to the questions in this previous FOI request remain the same. To assist you in locating this information, please review the link below:
Telephony/UC, Microsoft and Storage – Freedom of Information (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
Explanatory annexe
Exemptions applied
Section 21: Information readily available to the applicant by other means
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) does not oblige a public authority to provide information if it is already reasonably accessible by other means. In this case the exemption applies because the information is already available.
Further guidance can be found at: Information accessible to the applicant by other means (section 21) | ICO