SOURCES SOUGHT
D--D -- LIveState Licenses
- Notice Date
- 8/19/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Austin Automation Center, (00D), 1615 Woodward Street, Austin, Texas 78772
- ZIP Code
- 78772
- Solicitation Number
- 200-162-06
- Response Due
- 8/29/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, Austin Automation Center, Acquisition Management Services, Austin, TX 78772 has a requirement for LiveState solutions software. The Government will consider other software that has the same functionality described below: Specific capabilities of LiveState that, collectively, make it uniquely suited to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), HIPS project are: Provides disk-imaging based solutions that have proven to work with all major components of the ISS HIPS system (Win 2003 Enterprise, MS SQL, IBM RAID, ISS software), regardless of their file or disk usage patterns. Permits recovery of selected files, folders, or the entire disk structure, restoring the complete system state (operating system, application, configuration, and datasets) to any of multiple ?recovery points?, quickly recovering from most conceivable hardware or software failure scenarios. LiveState has native support for partitioning of backup images. This provides the capability to create backup images to specific sizes allowing for storage various forms of portable media for off-site storage (ex: DVD, tape). LiveState has demonstrated superior capabilities in the ability to restore backed up images on systems with storage volumes that vary from the original in both configuration and in size. This is a vital capability given the variations that exist at the hardware level (especially number of drives per system) for the VA HIPS deployment, also in the event of attempting to recover from large scale hardware failure this level of flexibility can reduce the amount of time required to restore a system (by removing the need to get an exact drive & RAID configuration match). LiveState has demonstrated the capability to install the required components of their solution remotely. Benefit being that implementation should not require travel cost for set up, and requires only minimal participation of local staff for initial configuration. The recovery process for ?bare metal? restores is both very simple and very flexible, providing support for both local and network based system recoveries. AES encryption of backup data is available (and would be used for any backup data going off-site). Network bandwidth throttling is supported to limit network impact of backing up very large datasets (ex: HIPS databases are typically 60GB or larger). Intelligent automatic use of differential analysis and built-in compression reduces the size of backup datasets to much smaller than the original file space. Supports restoration of a complete file system (with operating system) into a virtual machine (VMWARE) that would permit temporarily combining functions if an extended hardware outage was anticipated.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Dept of V.A., 810 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20420
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 20420
- Record
- SN01120423-W 20060821/060819220307 (fbodaily.com)
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