IT Systems
Dear London North West Healthcare NHS Trust,
New FOI:
Please could you provide the following information:
Number of Employees
Number of IT Staff
Number of sites
Annual IT Capex Budget
Annual IT Opex Budget
Key dates:
Storage Refresh date
Backup Refresh date
Network Refresh date
Server Refresh date
Virtualisation refresh date
Desktop refresh date
VDI refresh date
DR Contract renewal
IT Outsource contract renewal
Desktops:
Number of Desktops
VDI vendor
Servers:
Number of Windows Servers
Number of UNIX/Linux Servers
What operating system do you use?
Percentage Virtualised?
Server platform?
Current server supplier?
Current support expiry date?
Storage:
Volume of data:
Primary Storage Vendor:
Date of Purchase:
Backup Software:
Date of Purchase:
Storage support end date:
Backup Support end date:
Network:
Network vendor:
Network Speed:
Network Support end date:
Applications:
Which healthcare specific apps do you use?
Database vendors
Email provider
PACS Provider
VNA Provider
SSO Provider
EPR Provider
Which services do you outsource?
When does your outsource contract refresh?
Who are your providers?
Do you use any Cloud services?
If yes, which ones?
How far are you in your cloud strategy?
a) Not considering Cloud for the foreseeable future
b) Interested in Cloud, but have not started looking into it
c) Research Stage
d) Meeting with Suppliers
e) Consultancy
f) Started to integrate
g)Fully integrated
Yours faithfully,
Felicity Myres
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Natalie
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London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
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Dear Ms Myres
London North West Healthcare NHS Trust is responding to your Freedom of
Information request received on 20/04/2017.
FOI Ref: 080-17
In response:
Number of Employees 8572
Number of IT Staff
79
Number of sites
39
Annual IT Capex Budget
£4,000.000.00
Annual IT Opex Budget
£7,184,530.00
Key dates:
Storage Refresh date
Not Defined
Backup Refresh date
Not Defined
Network Refresh date Not
Defined
Server Refresh date
Not Defined
Virtualisation refresh date Not
Defined
Desktop refresh date
Not Defined
VDI refresh date
N/A
DR Contract renewal
Not Defined
IT Outsource contract renewal N/A
Desktops:
Number of Desktops
7467
VDI vendor
N/A
Servers:
Number of Windows Servers 537
Number of UNIX/Linux Servers 41
What operating system do you use? Microsoft, HP
Unix,
Percentage Virtualised? 87%
Server platform?
Dell / HP
Current server supplier?
Varies dependent on system requirements
Current support expiry date? There are
over 300 systems with various support terms
Storage:
Volume of data:
250TB
Primary Storage Vendor: N/A
Dell EMC
Date of Purchase:
2016
Backup Software:
Comvault/Veeam/Semantic
Date of Purchase:
2015
Storage support end date: On
going No planned refreshment date set
Backup Support end date: On
going No planned refreshment date set
Network:
Network vendor:
Predominantly Cisco Active Equipment
Network Speed:
On average the Lan id 10Gb with 1 Gb to the desktop
Network Support end date: 90% of
the network is supported in house the remainder is supported by Cisco with
a contract end date of 31^st March 2021
Applications:
Which healthcare specific apps do you use?
Database vendors
Oracle / Microsoft
Email provider
NHS E-mail
PACS Provider
Sectra
VNA Provider
N/A
SSO
N/A
EPR Provider
N/A
Which services do you outsource? Printing
When does your outsource contract refresh? 2019
Who are your providers?
Vision PLC
Do you use any Cloud services? Yes
If yes, which ones?
ESR, Rostering
How far are you in your cloud strategy? Interested in
Cloud, but have not started looking into it
We trust this is now complete and thank you for your interest in London
North West Healthcare NHS Trust.
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