Information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment

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Dear Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS 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

Dear Julie Hatchard,

 

We are writing to acknowledge your request for information under the
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.  Your request was received in our office
on: 17/01/2017

 

We are considering your request and will reply more fully in due course. 
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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information Office

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

 

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Dear Julie Hatchard,

 

Thank you for your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information (FOI) Act 2000.

 

We are now in a position to respond to your request.

 

Your request:

 

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.

 

Our response:

 

Under Section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act, the Trust can
confirm that it holds information relevant to your request and this has
been provided where possible below.

 

1.  2016/17 = £2.8M; 2017/18 = 3M

2.  HP Lefthand, 3PAR;

3.  2012-2015

4.  April 2018

5.  £300,000

6.  200 TB

7.  54.8 wte

8.  Gary Steen, Assistant Director of IT – [1][email address];
Bruce Wheatley, Interim CIO - [2][email address].  All staff
can be reached via the Trust’s main switchboard – 01273 696955.

9.  MDOP; 50 users

10.  DPM / NetBackup

11.  185 TB

12.  135

13.  Linux, Windows

14.  400

15.  75%

16.  Not applicable

17.  CCS Frameworks and other NHS agreements

18.  Approximately 350 hpw

19.  Cyber threats

20.  Both

 

 

If you require clarification or if we can be of any further assistance to
you, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [3][BSUH request email]

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Freedom of Information Office

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

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