The NHS IT Security Specialists
Server and Storage Virtualisation
Server and Storage Virtualisation
Most NHS Trusts have identified the need to reduce costs and realise associated benefits, these objectives can be found in most Trust strategic plans. Typical Trust objectives would be to - provide high levels of patient care, guarantee the delivery of safe services, deliver effective and efficient services, introduce cost savings and commit to reducing carbon footprints.
Our experience in working with NHS Trusts means that we implicitly understand these objectives and we have been able to contribute to Trusts achieving them through the adoption of technology solutions thereby:
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Introducing cost savings and significant return on investment
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Increasing data stability and security to Trust infrastructure and patient data
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Reducing the contribution to the Trust’s carbon footprint
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Releasing the IT team from ‘fire fighting’ which allows them time to innovate
These are derived from:
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A better use of existing infrastructure and technology
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Reduced power consumption
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Reduced administration time
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Improved utilisation
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Re-alignment of support costs
There is a continuing and unfaltering growth in the volume of information and images required to be stored by NHS Trusts. This growth is causing existing data storage systems to creak and groan with the strain. Furthermore, increasingly, Trust staff need to access critical and sensitive information around the clock, 365 days a year.
One of the most common ways that NHS Trusts are developing their IT infrastructure is to implement virtualisation of servers, storage and applications, thereby addressing the above whilst also reducing the physical footprint of the current IT estate.
For Trusts to realise the full benefits, and to take advantage of full virtualisation, a fully resilient platform can be implemented, this will consolidate disparate hardware and control server and storage sprawl improving manageability. A variety of hardware and software technology solutions can be considered to meet these requirements including storage and blade arrays with high availability and resilience.
Rapid deployment and provisioning of infrastructure and the ability to have automated fail-over proves invaluable to NHS Trusts, ensuring that the lights stay on and data is not lost.
Server and storage virtualisation will provide:
- Improved IT infrastructure performance
- Ease of system management - requiring little or no troubleshooting
- Contain server sprawl
- Improve server utilisation
- Reduce application provisioning time
- Reduce costs – capital costs, on-going power consumption, resource to manage
- Reduce carbon footprint – on-going power consumption
For more information see
HP Converged Infrastructure Seminars
Quickspecs
Care Pack