The procurement concerns various data center and infrastructure equipment (e.g. servers, storage and backup equipment, integrated solutions and data center network equipment) as well as the purchase of related accessories and support services.

The acquisition is described in more detail in the attachments to the call for tender.

The procurement targets various data center infrastructure equipment (e.g. servers, storage and backup equipment, integrated solutions and data center network equipment) as well as the purchase of related accessories and maintenance and support services.

Aalto University was founded in 2010. The university consists of six schools, 25,000 students, 5,000 employees and about 2,000 visitors.

The main product areas of the agreement are:

• Servers

• VMware hyperkonvergenssilaitteet

• Azure Stack HCI hyperkonvergenssilaitteet

• Fibre channel-laitteet

• Infiniband switches

• 100GE-datacenter -kytkimet

• Scale-out-WORM NAS-laitteet

• LTO-9 tape libraries and LTO-9 strips

• UPS devices

• UPS-generaattorikontit

• parallel generators

Datacenter devices play a key role in serving Aalto University's 10,000 workstations, 2,000 servers and over 30,000 users. Aalto University's research requires a high-quality IT infrastructure and the ability to increase capacity flexibly. Aalto University's research activities are computing and data intensive, such as the Science-IT infrastructure, where, for example, a computing server for 10,000 processor cores with 2 PiB storage capacities attached.

The acquisition is described in more detail in the attachments to the call for tender.