Lotterywest seeks new enterprise data backup solution

Games operator Lotterywest has invited technology providers to bid for the replacement of its legacy enterprise backup solution

The Western Australian government agency released a tender last week, detailing requirements for a contemporary backup system to serve its diverse corporate systems across on-premise, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services environments.

The tender outlines how Lotterywest aims to minimise information and communications technology security risks and business continuity threats through this procurement.

Lotterywest is committed to minimising ICT security and business continuity risks associated with data loss, resulting from events including natural disasters, cyber-attacks, hardware failures and human error, the document states.

The current backup infrastructure involves Veritas 5250 Tape Library units located at NextDC P1 and P2 data centres, with an additional Dell TL4000 Tape Drive.

This setup currently hosts approximately three months of data before archiving to LTO tapes.

A key objective of the new solution is eliminating tape-based media for long-term data retention, while ensuring backup data can be hosted on immutable storage for recovery in case of ransomware attacks.

Other requirements include providing data replication functionality between data centres, simplified management through a "single pane of glass" interface, and support for potential future growth into cloud-based workloads.

The solution must also help Lotterywest comply with the Australian Signals Directorate's Essential Eight cyber security framework at Maturity Level One.

A shortlisting phase followed by a Proof of Concept (PoC) stage with a preferred respondent may form part of the selection process.

Lotterywest has indicated they will remunerate the preferred respondent for the PoC work regardless of whether a final contract is awarded.

The contract term will be three years with two one-year extension options.

Interested providers must submit their offers electronically via the Tenders WA website by 2:30pm local time on 30 April 2025.