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Dear London North West Healthcare 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 Cornish

FOI (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Dear Julie

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Natalie
FOI Officer
London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
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MORAN, Natalie (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Apologies Julie - your reference number is 035-17
Kind regards
Natalie

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MORAN, Natalie (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Ms Cornish

 

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust is responding to your Freedom of
Information request received on 21/03/2017.

FOI Ref: 035-17

 

You asked:

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.

 

In response:

1. The Infrastructure budget includes Pay, Non-pay and Capital are
included within the many elements of the IM&T budgets.  It is not possible
to separate out every individual component of the Infrastructure costs.

2. DELL EMC   VNX5400, VNX5300,VNXE3100

3.Installed over a period of 4 Years  Latest part installation  June 2017

4. No Date Planned

5. Not Allocated

6. Approximately 200TB

7. 103 including Telecoms and Switchboard

8. Names will not be disclosed of staff who are not director level and
therefore this information is exempt under section 40 (personal
information) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 , as the information
constitutes third party data. Section 40(2). Under the FOI Act disclosure
of this information would breach the fair processing principle contained
in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), where it would be unfair to that
person and is confidential.
[1]http://www.lnwh.nhs.uk/about-us/the-trus....

9. Not Used

10. Veam, Commvault, Samantec

11. 120TB

12. 513

13. Most Commercial Systems

14. 446      

15. 86.9%

16. In-house

17. See Attached Spreadsheet. We use multiple framework agreements
although we are more than likely going to use agreements managed by the
following bodies; Crown Commercial Services,

London Procurement Partnership, North of England Commercial Procurement
Collaborative, NHS Shared Business Services, HealthTrust Europe, NHS
Supply Chain. 

18. Information requested is Not Recorded

19. Subjective

20. We have access to 10GB but not currently using it.

 

We trust this is now complete and thank you for your interest in London
North West Healthcare NHS Trust.

 

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Kind regards

 

FOI Team

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

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