Information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I seek the following information about the
organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment:

1. What is your annual IT Infrastructure Budget for 2016, 2017 & 2018?
2. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
3. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? (Month/year)
4. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
5. What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
6. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
7. The total number of IT staff employed by the organization:
8. Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including
CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:
9. Please confirm if you are utilising desktop virtualisation technologies and if so how
many users do you provide services for?
10. What backup software do you use?
11. How much data do you backup in TB?
12. Number of servers?
13. What operating system(s) do you use?
14. Number of virtualised servers?
15. What percentage of your environment is virtualised?
16. If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.
17. Please also name all of the IT re-sellers that you work with and buy from, as well as the frameworks that you use for the release of any tenders etc.
18. Please also approximate the time spent managing your IT systems, specifically storage, per week in the unit of man hours. Also approximate the amount of time taken carving out LUNs and/or Volumes.
19. Please list any and all pain points that the IT teams, and organisation as a whole, experience with regard to the storage and usage of the virtualised workloads.
20. How is your storage connected, i.e. via Fibre Channel, Ethernet (NFS or ISCSi). If your storage is currently connected via Fibre Channel, do you have access to 10 GB Ethernet, or 1 GB ethernet, and if so, please declare which.

Yours faithfully,

Julie Hatchard

FOI Bridgewater, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Thank you for your request

The request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Further clarification may be required to ensure your request is dealt with appropriately if this is the case we will make further contact with you. In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, we will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you, and you will be required to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

As per the terms of the Freedom of Information Act we expect to have responded to you no later than 20 working days from the date received.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the reference number above.

Regards

Jackie

Jackie McKay l Information Governance Officer l Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust  l Spencer House, Dewhurst Road, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7PG l Tel 01925 867728 l email: [email address] l Secure email: [email address]

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Regards

Jackie

Jackie McKay l Information Governance Officer l Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust  l Spencer House, Dewhurst Road, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7PG l Tel 01925 867728 l email: [email address] l Secure email: [email address]

Information Governance Intranet page

www.twitter.com/Bridgewater_NHS
www.facebook.com/BridgewaterNHS

            

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