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Freedom of Information request Datacentre Information

Response published: 18 March 2025

FOI Request

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information regarding the datacentre(s) maintained by your NHS Trust: 1. Which technology vendors provide the trusts primary data storage arrays? E.g Dell/Netapp/Tintri/Pure/Storage/HPE//Nutanix etc. 2. What is the size in Terabytes of the primary storage environment? 3. When does the current support contract expire on the primary data storage arrays? 4. What data storage array technology does the trust use to house the PACS environment? 5. What is the size in Terabytes of the PACS storage environment? 6. When does the current support contract expires on the primary storage arrays? 7. Which PACS provider does the trust use? 8. What Electronic Patient Record technology does the trust use? 9. Which backup technology does the trust use? E.g Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik 10. When does the current support contract expire on the backup technology? 11. Does the trust use public cloud storage? - Azure/AWS/Google Cloud 12. Does the trust use Azure VmWare Solution? 13. Does the trust have any stateless applications? 14. Does the trust use containers? 15. Does the trust use kubernetes? 16. Which frameworks does the trust tend to use to purchase hardware for the datacentre? 17. Which partners does the trust tend to use to purchase hardware for the datacentre?

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: 342-2025

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.

You asked:

1. Which technology vendors provide the trusts primary data storage arrays? E.g Dell/Netapp/Tintri/Pure/Storage/HPE//Nutanix etc.

Our response:

Nutanix

You asked:

2. What is the size in Terabytes of the primary storage environment?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

3. When does the current support contract expire on the primary data storage arrays?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

4. What data storage array technology does the trust use to house the PACS environment?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

5. What is the size in Terabytes of the PACS storage environment?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

6. When does the current support contract expires on the primary storage arrays?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

7. Which PACS provider does the trust use?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

8. What Electronic Patient Record technology does the trust use?

Our response:

RiO EPR, SystmOne, IAPTus, Lilie, SOEL

You asked:

9. Which backup technology does the trust use? E.g Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik

Our response:

Veeam

You asked:

10. When does the current support contract expire on the backup technology?

Our response:

The Trust does not store any PACs data

You asked:

11. Does the trust use public cloud storage? – Azure/AWS/Google Cloud

Our response:

Azure

You asked:

12. Does the trust use Azure VmWare Solution?

Our response:

Yes

You asked:

13. Does the trust have any stateless applications?

Our response:

Yes

You asked:

14. Does the trust use containers?

Our response:

No

You asked:

15. Does the trust use kubernetes?

Our response:

No

You asked:

16. Which frameworks does the trust tend to use to purchase hardware for the datacentre?

Our response:

GBE Converge is procured via the ‘Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework Agreement RM6100 Technology Services 3’

You asked:

17. Which partners does the trust tend to use to purchase hardware for the datacentre?

Our response:

GBE Converge

Next steps:

Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:

Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk

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