Specifications include, but are not limited to: The West Virginia Purchasing Division is soliciting bids on behalf of the Tax Division to establish a contract for the one time purchase of an Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) or equal backup solution. This solution shall be a factory integrated, 2U form factor, rack mountable, scalable solution. This solution shall provide capacity expansion options, from 24TB to 96TB without the need to purchaseadditional hardware. Solution shall be standard nineteen (19) inch sizing so they may be installed in existing cabinets or racks. This is a turnkey solicitation, where the vendor will include and provide all the hardware components, software licensing, installation, configuration, implementation, support and training required to fully install and implement the IDPA solution or equal. The proposed solution will encompass service and support for hardware, software maintenance, and service level offerings shall be included to supplement and or replace support during and at expiration of warranty periods. 3.1.1.1 Solution must be able to capture a point-in-time copy (backup) and write the data to a secondary storage target. This will include the backup and recovery of operating systems, files, databases, and applications. 3.1.1.2 Solution must have a minimum of 24TB of backup storage. Must have the option to scale to 96TB without the need to purchase additional hardware. 3.1.1.3 Solution must be a factory integrated 2U form factor appliance, including backup application, protection storage, and reporting and search capabilities, managed by a single interface. 3.1.1.4 Solution must be to write backups directly to the appliance from enterprise applications including, but not limited to, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft SQL Server Studio, and Windows File Server.
