02/14/2020, Fri, 20:52, Moscow time
, Text: Denis Voeikov
VTB Bank allocated 4.32 billion rubles. on PAKs Dell Nutanix and Lenovo
Nutanix, on which it builds its infrastructure since the end of 2018. Last circumstance
It is presented as the reason for the non-alternative choice of models. On previous
similar tenders were won mainly by Technoserv, in which VTB
owns a share of 40%.
Dell and Lenovo for VTB
As CNews found out, VTB Bank is ready to spend 4.32 billion rubles. on the
hardware-software complexes (PAK) of the American company Dell and Chinese Lenovo
Using US developer’s virtualization software Nutanix.
In particular, on January 28, 2020, VTB launched a tender in the format
“Request for proposals” for the supply of Dell Nutanix complexes with an initial price
an agreement of 2.82 billion rubles. A few days later, on February 3, 2020, the bank
announced a similar purchase of Lenovo Nutanix complexes with a starting price of a lot in
1.5 billion rubles.
Acceptance of applications from bidders at both tenders has already been completed.
The winner in the first of them will be determined on March 6, 2020, in the second – 13
Martha.
VTB will spend on PAKs Dell and Lenovo to 4.3 billion rubles
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Purchased complexes are data storage solutions
for virtual machines. Describing the nature of integration in them, Nutanix calls Dell
and Lenovo OEM partners,
who purchase Nutanix as software (the company has its own PACs),
for installation on their platforms.
No alternative and
background
TK of both tenders states that the supply of server
equipment of other manufacturers is not provided. This is explained by
purchased “iron” will be used to expand the existing
VTB infrastructure on Dell Nutanix and Lenovo Nutanix respectively.
An analysis of the public procurement website shows that Dell complexes
Nutanix Bank purchases at least August 2018, Lenovo Nutanix – October
2019 True, as large as now, these purchases were not. The amount of initial
contract prices in the previous 10 thematic tenders discovered by CNews (eight in line
Dell and two – Lenovo) is 1.21 billion rubles.
Who can become
supplier
In the last three Nutanix purchases, LLC became the winner
TS Integration is one of the three legal entities of the Technoserv integrator,
registered on August 19, 2019, a few days after launch
Bankruptcy proceedings of his once key legal entity Technoserv AS (later
bankruptcy was terminated). Recall VTB Group acquired 40%
Technoserva in June 2018
In the fourth oldest procurement, TS Integration also
took part, but the victory went to IBS Platformics LLC – a legal entity
IBS integrator.
At the time of the fifth oldest procurement, TS Integration
didn’t exist yet. The contract went to Tekhnoserv A / S JSC – another Tekhnoserv legal entity.
Among other (besides IBS) competitors of this integrator
The participants in the five previous purchases considered were Krok, Servionika,
“Vostok-NN”, “Stepinform”, “daughter” of “Ai-teco” company – “Development of communication systems
and Energy ”(RACE), as well as the notorious one of these days for its suspension
billionth purchase of Russian Railways computers at Elbrus on the complaint to the FAS Smart company
technologies. “
What is buying right now
VTB
The supply list of the first of VTB’s new tenders spells out
92 complex Dell Nutanix XC640ENT. They include a motherboard
PowerEdge R640 with Broadcom Quad Port Daughter Card Support.
Processors Used – Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (2 GHz, 20 Cores / 40 Threads, 10.4
GT / s, 27 MB cache, Turbo, HT (125 W), DDR4 2 666 MHz). Also in their composition
includes 24 dual-rank RDIMMs (32 GB, 2666 MT / s) and six
2.4 TB hard disks each (10 thousand rpm, SAS 12 Gb / s, 512e, 2.5
inch hot swap).
In addition, the specification includes 181 similar complexes on
Intel Xeon Gold 6230 (2.1 GHz, 20 cores / 40 threads, 10.4 GT / s, 27.5 MB cache,
Turbo, HT (125 W), DDR4 2933 MHz) with 12 four-level LRDIMMs (64
GB, 2666 MT / s) and four 1.8 TB each hard drives. Similarly
220 systems are required on Intel Xeon Gold 6138 with 12 LRDIMMs, as well as
60 more complexes of three different configurations.
The nomenclature of deliveries of the second of VTB’s new tenders
56 LenovoNutanixThinkAgileHX3320 complexes registered
Appliance on two Xeon Gold 6230 processors with 12 ThinkSystem memory modules
64GB TruDDR4 2933MHz (2Rx4 1.2V) RDIMM, as well as 186 similar complexes of two
various configurations.
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