Leeds NHS virtualises infrastructure

Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has appointed CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure after identifying business continuity and disaster recovery as critical elements of its ICT strategy, reports Public Technology.

The move will ensure Leeds MHT can serve its patients and staff seamlessly in the event of a system failure at the same time as improving ICT infrastructure costs, saving space and reducing complexity.

Leeds MHT is leading other NHS organisations in becoming fully compliant with the latest information governance guidelines produced by the NHS.

A new report by Tier1 Research shows the global multi-tenant Internet data centre market has shown significant growth in the past 12 months, according to a company statement issued via BusinessWire.

While data centre demand is up 12.53% on a global basis, supply has only increased by 4.23% - contributing to an already lopsided supply/demand curve but benefiting data centre operators.

Tier1 Research is an independent research firm that analyses the financial and industry implications of developments affecting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet sectors.

InMage Systems has released an updated version of DR-Scout, a disaster recovery and continuous data protection software solution, reports Computer Technology Review.

Version 4.0 of DR-Scout supports major platform upgrades for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and 64-bit computing environments. The enhancements to DR-Scout enable local recovery and failover of Exchange 2007 systems.

The solution enables medium and large enterprises to achieve instantaneous recovery of data with transactional integrity, which ensures least disruption to business operations, the company said.