Infrastructure - Data Storage

The request was refused by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

Dear FOI Team,

I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the FOI Act 2000.

Can you please provide an update on the following 4 questions regarding your Trust’s Infrastructure as it relates to the Data Storage element?

1. Please provide the following details about your Data Storage Cloud Provider:
Does your Data Storage use Cloud Provision (Yes / No)? –
Who is your main Cloud provider? –
Annual Spend 2020-21 (£’s) –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes – e.g. currently out for tender

2. Does your organisation plan to move your Data Storage to a cloud-based service in the next 2 years (Yes or No)? -
Main Supplier –
Additional Notes –

3. For each element detailed below, how does your organisation manage its data storage?

In-house data centre:
On Premise OR Off Premise (N/A if does not apply) –
Main Supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 (£’s) –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –

Shared service:
On Premise OR Off Premise (N/A if does not apply) –
Main supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 (£’s) –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –

Data Storage Management:
On Premise OR Off Premise (N/A if does not apply) –
Main supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 (£’s) –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –

Other (please specify)
On Premise OR Off Premise (N/A if does not apply) –
Main supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 (£’s) –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –

4. Does your Trust have an on-site data centre (Yes / No)? –
Do you plan to build an on-site data centre (Yes / No) –
If yes, what is the timeframe for this (Years) –
Who is your preferred supplier –

Thank you in advance for your time.

Kind regards,
Georgina Kovacs

FOI, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Ms Kovacs

We note we have received 3 requests from you within the last 60 days:

FOI 101303 - 26/05/2022
FOI 101327 - 08/06/2022
FOI 101358 - 21/06/2022

Under FOI law we are able to aggregate the costs of dealing with more than one request from the same person and therefore we intend to apply Section 12.

Under Section 12 of the Freedom of information Act does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

To identify this information would require a manual trawl of paper and electronic records which would exceed the timescales allowed by the Freedom of Information Act.

We estimate that the cost of complying with your request (in addition to the two previous requests) would exceed the appropriate limit of £450. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for NHS Trusts it is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 2½ working days in determining whether the Trust holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act the Department is not obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing your request further.

Jo

Jo Routley
Information Governance Assistant
Tel: 01823 344185 | Email: [email address]
https://somersetft.nhs.uk/| Twitter: @SomersetFT | Facebook: /somersetft

Information Governance Team, Unit J, Crown Close, Crown Industrial Estate, Priorswood, Taunton,TA2 8RX

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