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Coolspirit, the data storage company, has been providing a range of disk
and tape technology to help an NHS Trust implement faster and smarter
backup and recovery systems. SNS-UK talks to Paul Kennelly, Senior
IM&T Technician at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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Lancashire Care NHS Lancashire Care NHS Symantec’s Backup Exec, a
KENNELL
Foundation Trust was Foundation Trust, helped to Quantum tape library and
established in April 2002 and implement one such outside Qlogic HBAs.
authorised as a Foundation project – a backup solution
Trust on 1st December 2007. located at a site in Security was a crucial factor.
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The Trust provides mental Warrington. One of the NHS As Paul explains: “The
health services for adults and organisations at this site has security of patient and clinical
older people and substance a responsibility for gathering data is of paramount
misuse services for a and analysing data on behalf importance – you don’t want
population of around 1.4 of a number of Primary Care any Tom, Dick or Harry seeing
million people in Lancashire. Trusts (PCTs) and in doing so it. We implement encryption
It also provides a range of had realised that their own on all our backup system –
other services such as backup solutions were backup takes places to the
psychological therapies, low inadequate. 256 bit encryption level. In
and medium secure care, fact, we’re something of a
forensic services and child Together with several other leader in this field as we’ve
and adolescent services. NHS organisations based at been implementing encryption
Approximately 3,700 staff the site they pooled their for years.”
work for the Trust from over budgets and commissioned
100 sites, within Lancashire’s Lancashire Care NHS Kennelly looked at both
five primary care trust areas: Foundation Trust’s IT Services Overland and HP when it
East Lancashire, West to build the backup solution, came to the tape libraries,
Lancashire, North Lancashire, hosted in Warrington. both of which had been used
Central Lancashire and Fylde on previous projects, but
Coast. Paul Kennelly explains: “The decided to use Quantum
Trust’s network infrastructure technology for this backup
The Trust’s corporate covers the whole of project.
headquarters is in Preston, Lancashire, so the SHA and
and it is from here that the other NHS organisations Paul summarises: “Quantum
organisation’s IT requirements came onto our network – file takes us to the next level. The
are coordinated. As well as servers, Exchange servers and tape library does everything
providing the software and the like. Once on our network, we want it to do, it is a
hardware necessary to we implemented the backup similar class to the Overland
underpin its own employees, strategy, which we now and HP options, but has extra
the IT department offers its run for them, monitoring features which we can use as
expertise to other NHS and changing the tapes as and when we need to scale-
organisations. necessary.” up.” In terms of the decision
Back in 2007, Paul Kennelly, The Fibre Channel backup to use Fibre Channel
Senior IM&T Technician at system incorporates connectivity, this was based
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