NHS supply body overhauls IT for email compliance
New servers to meet government regulations
Health service supplies body NHS Logistics has overhauled its IT infrastructure to meet government regulations on the storage and management of email.
The supplier, which provides more than 51,000 different products to the NHS through its online ordering system, needed to upgrade to cope with legislation resulting from the Freedom of Information Act.
NHS Logistics has installed Dell servers and two storage area networks as part of the refresh.
‘The previous Dell 4400 servers were coming up to four years old and showing their age in that their storage space was limited,’ said Shawn O’Flanagan, NHS Logistics IT systems manager.
The new infrastructure, which will increase email storage capacity from 244GB to about 1TB, will provide better scalability and future-proofing of systems.
NHS Logistics will make savings by revising its three-year server replacement policy and reducing the number of servers it needs to buy in the future.
The infrastructure includes a three-node cluster of Dell Poweredge servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
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