NextiraOne has completed a second major contract from East Anglia’s James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to build additional dedicated data centre facilities.
Worth over £1.5 million, the contract included providing an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system expected to achieve a 25% reduction in energy costs. The overall goal is to provide an even more resilient communications platform that will help deliver better patient services and reduce the Trust’s power consumption. The new Data Centre at the James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth, completes “a highly resilient network infrastructure”, supporting storage area networking and server virtualisation, which will underpin a growing range of administrative functions, clinical applications, and admission-critical systems for A&E and theatre, including a PACS digital X-ray system, and links to the national patient records system. The Trust is migrating to virtualised blade servers and “employing the latest environmental technologies” to help meet its carbon reduction objectives. The contract includes a three-year managed services operational support agreement covering both the new and the existing Data Centre equipment and networking. Now fully operational, the installation followed NextiraOne’s successful implementation of the first phase – the “Nexus suite” – in 2008. The new Data Centre completes the consolidation and transfer of all the Trust’s IT and communications technology into dedicated, purpose-built facilities. It incorporates Cisco’s latest NEXUS 5000 switches and Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance, plus a centralised UPS system, new fibre cabling, and upgraded data switching infrastructure. NextiraOne has supplied in-row cooling in a self-contained rack solution and free-cooling air conditioning (pictured), plus a UPS with generator back-up. The free cooling air conditioning’s power consumption profile should provide a payback within two years of the system’s installation. The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services for around 230,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas.
