Nuffield moves to private cloud

Computing.co.uk writes.

The charity has more than 300 facilities across the UK, including private hospitals, gyms and medical centres.

Information Age says Nuffield had already adopted VMware-based virtualisation in its primary data centre, but it has commissioned a new, secondary site in a collocation facility, where it is building its new private cloud infrastructure.

"We decided our legacy platform was no longer fit for purpose," said interim enterprise architect Mike Rowland.

"As a charity, we have quite a lean IT operation, so we need to have a flexible, easy-to-manage IT infrastructure."

Changing from rack-mounted servers to HP server blades will also save floor space and costs, Computer World notes.

The 10Gb Ethernet modules will allow Nuffield Health's IT team to fine-tune network bandwidth at the server edge, allowing just the right amount of bandwidth based on application needs and enabling greater virtualisation.