By Dan Ilett, 19 January 2006 12:20
NEWS
The Environment Agency has signed a three-year, £210,000 deal to upgrade its storage in a bid to improve weather warnings to the public.
To improve the speed of reporting and meet regulations, the agency has bought 43 terabytes of data space from CA. It will pilot the technology in Cardiff and then roll it out to 240 offices throughout the country.
Paul Sanderson, IT manager for the Environment Agency, told silicon.com: "This is slightly more expensive [than our previous deal with CA] but the business case is that it'll save us £43,000 on things like manual costs."
The Environment Agency department issues public information about the environment, such as air quality reports and flood warnings.
The upgrade will replace the current 22 terabyte deal with CA for around £40,000 per year. The new system is to increase a Microsoft Windows network by adding 200 critical servers over three years.
Sanderson said: "In the long term, it's a cheaper deal for us and it covers more of our environment. We needed more capacity for things like flood warnings and to enhance the service for the public."
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