Information about the organisations information technology team and infrastructure equipment

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Dear North East London 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 Cornish

Jethwa Jaina, North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Julie

Thank you for your request.

Please find below our response:

1.What is your annual IT Infrastructure Budget for 2016, 2017 & 2018?
2016 – £700K
2017 – £700K
2018 - £700K
2. What storage vendor(s) and model do you currently use?
HP / Nutanix
3. When was the installation date of above storage vendor(s)? (Month/year)
HP - December 2013
Nutanix – To be installed
4. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/year)
December 2018
5. What is your estimated budget for the refresh?
Not yet set – however estimate between £500K- £800K
6. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB?
350 TB
7. The total number of IT staff employed by the organization:
80 - 90
8. Please list and provide contact details for the IT senior management team including CIO, IT Director and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:
Umesh Gadhvi – Director of Healthcare Informatics
Darren Nottage – Service Delivery Manager
Mohmed Manager – Network Infrastructure Manager
Sajid Hussain - Server Infrastructure Manager
9. Please confirm if you are utilising desktop virtualisation technologies and if so how many users do you provide services for?
Yes – however only for remote access users – around 100 Staff
10. What backup software do you use?
Veeam – D2D
CA – To Tape
11. How much data do you backup in TB?
160TB
12. Number of servers?
300+
13. What operating system(s) do you use?
W2k8, W2K12
14. Number of virtualised servers?
250+
15. What percentage of your environment is virtualised?
85%
16. If you outsource your IT works, please provide who it is with and when the contract started and ends.
AmicusITS – November 2016 – October 2018
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.
CDW
Phoenix Software Ltd
Cygnia
AmicusITS
ITB Ltd
CBC Computer Systems Ltd
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.
2 hours
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.
None
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.
Fibre Channel\10GB

Kind regards

Jaina Jethwa
Information Governance, Data Protection & FOI Manager
NELFT
Goodmayes Hospital
Information Governance Team
Barley Lane
Ilford. Essex. IG3 8XJ

Internal Dial: 64425
External Dial: 0300 555 1201 Ext: 64425
Fax: 0844 931 0105

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