Storage and Software Products

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network seeks to purchase additional storage and software products for performance monitoring, thin provisioning, and data encryption.  The current FinCEN IT Modernization and future Cross Border infrastructure maintains an all HP storage area network (SAN) for its production, development and disaster recovery sites.  Thus, the HP product line was established as the technical standard for IT Modernization to consolidate and minimize maintenance and support requirements, to minimize the cost of technician training and to ensure compatibility within the existing IT MOD environment.  This procurement is adding to the existing environment to support IT Modernization data conversion and, as such, it is required that the devices integrate fully into the existing environment of HP devices.  Offerors are to propose "brand name or equal to" the salient characteristics in this RFQ.  Equal solutions must fully integrate and vendors are to provide documentation fully supporting their rationale.