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ANS to install FlexPod solution for UHSM
Tue 8th Nov 11 - 13:41
ANS Group, the Manchester and London based FlexPod expert, has announced that it will be working with University Hospitals South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM) to install a brand new infrastructure. Using the award winning Infrastructure 3.0 network architecture, already successfully installed at other NHS sites such as Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust and Milton Keynes PCT, ANS will build a new next-generation infrastructure that will future-proof the Trust’s desktop solution for the next 3-5 years.
UHSM is a major acute teaching hospital trust that provides services for adults and children at Wythenshawe Hospital and Withington Community Hospital. They are recognised as a centre of clinical excellence and provide district general hospital services and specialist tertiary service to the local community. The Trust is recognised for the quality of its teaching, research and development, with major research programmes focussing on cancer, lung disease, wound management and medical education. The Trust’s sound financial management in recent years has seen it generate annual revenue surpluses that are re-invested in services.
ANS won a tender to provide an end-to-end infrastructure for a 550 terminal services solution for the Trust to replace its legacy desktops; this will include an upgrade of the server-based infrastructure and will deliver increased resilience in storage array network services across two data centres, with a third site used for archiving purposes.
Using NetApp, Cisco UCS, VMware technology the Trust will implement a compute & storage platform capable of replacing the entire desktop estate through a hybrid VDI & Terminal Services solution that provides much improved disaster recovery between two data centres, centralises all of the storage requirements, reduces the physical server count, reduces the carbon footprint, improves and simplifies backup requirements and empowers end-users with the ability to perform file level recovery.
Mark Wright, Head of IT at UHSM, said, “We were looking for a new infrastructure that could not only replace our existing desktop solution but significantly improve it. We were very impressed when we saw the capabilities of Infrastructure 3.0 and, even after a thorough search of the market place, nothing else came close for ROI or technological benefits. The combination of cost savings and technology improvements is significant and we look forward to reaping the benefits of this installation.”
Paul Sweeney, MD at ANS Group, said, “The ANS FlexPod solution is going from strength to strength in the NHS and as ever we are very proud to be able to help to improve the health services available through the organisations that we partner with. The combination of financial and operation benefits that we can provide are impressive and we are glad that UHSM will now benefit from them.”