Plymouth Healthcare Communityhas
deployed a more cost efficient data storage system in its
datacentre.
The Plymouth Healthcare Community comprises Plymouth Hospitals
NHS Trust, Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust and around 50 GP
practices.
It has deployed the
FalconStor IPStor system in its 18Tbyte datacentre.
The NHS community estimates that its IPStor
virtualisation platform has reduced labour costs and time by
the equivalent of one storage administrator, while the flexibility
of the storage system has directly saved £100,000 of capital
investment through the redeployment of existing equipment and the
capability to use cheaper storage.
Rob Harder, ICT infrastructure manager at Plymouth ICT Shared
Service, said, "The IPStor virtualisation platform has given us the
flexibility to deliver a cost effective data storage solution
across our enterprise, enabling us to mix our limited capacity,
high performing and relatively expensive disk arrays, with our
lower-end, inexpensive disk arrays in a highly resilient and high
availability environment."
He said management and support overheads of the previous
traditional storage area network have been reduced and routine
maintenance access has improved.