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When moving into new offices recently, the trust entered into contracts with manufacturers Dell and APC which has allowed them to review several key areas and reduce spending.

Mark Austin, associate director of information management and technology at the trust, said: “The move was a great opportunity to identify potential savings and design an innovative, energy-efficient data centre from the ground up. We were on a tight deadline to complete the project and because of out relationship with Dell, we knew they could help us create a streamlined high density infrastructure that would be scalable and energy efficient. It was critical the new centre met the environmental objectives set out by the Government and aimed at reducing the NHS’s overall carbon emissions.”

Under the contract Dell and APC worked together to build a customised, high density infrastructure composed of rack-mounted blade servers and cooling solutions. The PCT installed Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers, which are specially designed for high-density environments and are one of the most energy efficient on the market. In addition, a VMware virtualised environment resulted in a 10% consolidation of physical servers, immediately reducing the footprint of the installation and cutting energy costs.

Check out this article illustrating how this health trust has used server consolidation, virtualization and appropriate data center racks and cooling to reduce their energy costs by 25%. It’s always great to see what people are doing to meet their requirements, whether it’s in terms of empowerment and flexibility through virtualization or energy efficient and cost reduction.

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