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Due to be commissioned over the next few weeks, the purpose-built Data Centre will consolidate the Trust’s IT and communications services into one state-of-the-art facility and pave the way for the major £400M hospital building programme due to open in 2013.

NextiraOne’s Intelligent Building Services (IBS) division has been involved in the North Bristol NHS Trust’s Data Centre project from the outset and helped the Trust to formulate its ICT strategy and choose the dedicated data centre approach. Working with the Trust’s architects and other building and specialist suppliers, NextiraOne’s IBS team provided a continuous range of consulting and expert services: from the initial definition and scoping to the construction and fit-out of the new Data Centre based at Southmead, housing the data and voice requirements of the two acute hospital sites and other local healthcare services.

NextiraOne experts also helped with the full design and installation of the physical infrastructure – from power supply, cooling and light, to security and access control. Of particular importance to the Trust was the need to reduce its carbon footprint and this will be achieved by consolidating servers and using blade technology where possible. The data centre will also have the latest technology in environmentally sensitive lighting and energy-efficient cooling systems, which in themselves will cut power consumption by an estimated 40-70%.

It’s always interesting to see the range of requirements and technologies used in the public sector to deliver the next generation infrastructure and IT services for the UK’s public health service, I’m off to read up more, I see they are using blade servers where possible and trying to reduce their energy consumption, very cool.

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