This Sources Sought (SS) notice / Request for Information (RFI) is not a Request for Quote. The responses received will be treated as information for planning purposes, meaning no contract will be awarded based on this SS Notice / RFI alone; the responses are not considered offers and will not be accepted to form a binding contract.
The Library of Congress seeks unified storage system for its Tier-1 and Tier-2 data that provides both Block and NAS storage. These systems will be hosted in Library's (On-Prem) datacenters and will be used to store and manage Library’s applications data to include:
VMWare Datastores
Multiple databases
Splunk Data/Indexes
Application data hosted on Linux and Windows that require disaster recovery ability
Network file shares (NFS, CIFS and Mixed-Protocol)
Other salient characteristics, per the attached.
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