Leeds virtualise servers with CSA Waverley
- 30 May 2007
Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has chosen CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure.
CSA Waverley will be installing a new solution to the trust that will consolidate storage to one central location and will virtualise all servers. The aim is to bring business agility and operational efficiencies to the trust.
The trust needed the new system to ensure that they met the business continuity and disaster recovery elements of their IT strategy.
Dave Shelley, head of ICT, said: “CSA Waverley has been creative in its response to our brief with a value for money solution, reusing our existing hardware to operate as shadow servers for business continuity purposes.
“The team is also delivering automated tape back up system and library technology. In addition, they will be implementing the very best HP blade server technology and VMware to virtualise and simplify our complete infrastructure.”
The aim of the new system is to ensure that Leeds can serve its patients and staff seamlessly in the event of a system failure.
Shelley added: “Our IT team no longer has to worry about backup as a daily task, we can actually focus on our core role of managing and maintaining the system to help users deliver a better service to the public.
“The change from physical to virtual servers will enable us to maximise our existing technology investments, respond faster to changing operational growth, save us time space and wastage. Our new system will use rather than three rather than 30 physical servers.”
By implementing this technology, the trust will ensure its daily operations will continue regardless of any later data issues that may arise.
CSA Waverley’s managing director, Andrew Boyle, said: “Our expertise is in serving the NHS and our work with Leeds MHT is further proof we can provide innovative, value for money ‘best-in-class’ solutions that will help any NHS organisation make significant steps towards hitting efficiency targets.”
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