CSA WaverleyThis is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader, such as GoogleReader, or to display this data on your own website or blog. Subscribe to this data using MyMedWorm.Subscribe to this data using GoogleReader.Subscribe to this data using Bloglines.Subscribe to this data using MyYahoo.

This page shows you the latest items in this publication.

CSA Waverley helps CfH 'NHAIS' system hit over 2000 migrations with 100% delivery recordEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Introduction Over time organisations change to meet operational demands and pressures associated with growth and development. The NHS has placed technology at the heart of its strategy since the 1970s and one organisation has uniquely provided an unprecedented level of support, spanning over two decades, for the technological dynamics of what is now the National Program for IT. Celebrating its 25th year of business, CSA Waverley is considered to be a trusted driving force behind provision of hardware and system migration supporting Connecting for Health and the NHS’s most robust system, called NHAIS. The infrastruc...
Source: CSA Waverley - July 15, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: CSA Waverley Tags: NHS|IT|CfH|NHAIS|Infrastructure|system|hardware|migration|virtualisation|disaster recovery Source Type: info

Waverley agrees strategic alliance to deliver encryption appliances to public sectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Leading NHS IT services provider, CSA Waverley, has secured a strategic partnership with DISUK, to bring cost effective user friendly data encryption appliances to the NHS and broader public sector. The new technology is reported to offer encryption three times more secure than alternatives. Since NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, mandated encryption technology as a default data security mechanism across all public authorities, CSA Waverley has analysed the market to find a solution. With hardware drive and software encryption technologies both having their flaws, CSA Waverley has unearthed a third mechanism tha...
Source: CSA Waverley - April 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: CSA Waverley Tags: CSA|Waverley|security|encryption|appliances|hardware|software|disaster|recovery|paranoia|engine. network Source Type: info

CSA WAVERLEY LAUNCHES FIRST EVER VM TEST-DRIVE ROADSHOWEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health sector IT specialist, CSA Waverley, is using a uniquely mobile HP Blade server and VMware suite to take free of charge virtualisation test-drives to the desks of NHS IT professionals nation-wide. The company aims to help NHS organisations realise more efficient delivery of services by speeding up understanding and deployment of virtualisation. The move follows a survey that found 70% of IT managers understand virtualisation yet nearly 60% said they haven’t tried or implemented it. The company sites a lack of practical understanding and hands on experience versas theory as well as departmental budget constra...
Source: CSA Waverley - February 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: CSA Waverley Tags: CSA|Waverley|Virtualisation|Infrastructure|Roadshow|VM|Health|Sector|IT|Specialist Source Type: info

USB THE ANSWER TO INFORMATION GOVERNANCEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Encrypted pen drives are being hailed by the public sector as offering cashable savings and a secure method of transporting data according to NHS IT infrastructure specialist, CSA Waverley. The company believes this grass roots approach is perceived to offer considerable savings but only if the encryption level is delivered appropriately and there is widespread communication of overcoming further dangers, such as virus risk, associated with using USBs. The company has seen sales of these encrypted devices rocket in the later half of 2008 and expects the trend to continue well into 2009 as public health organisations...
Source: CSA Waverley - January 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: CSA Waverley Tags: technology|data|governance|information|public|sector|USB|pen|drive|security|NHS|health Source Type: info

Does new technology mean that Clustering is a reality and does Consolidation bring about energy savings and cost and efficiency benefits to the business?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of the cluster being to ensure application availability in the event of hardware failure. The design of the cluster is critical to avoid single points of failure – the resilience of the cluster is only as strong as the ‘weakest link’. The closer the designer wishes to get to the “five 9’s” (99.999% uptime), the more numerous and expensive the components. New technology does make clustering a reality, but at what cost? If the objective of the designer is to gain application availability, then a more effective and efficient solution can be built using the techniques of virtualisation. The functio...
Source: CSA Waverley - December 4, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Comment from IT Health Specialist, CSA Waverley's Peter Hanson Tags: clustering|consolidation|virtualisation|continuity|disaster|recovery Source Type: info

Waverley secures online backup and recovery services for NHS with i365 UK Ltd A Seagate CompanyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Leading NHS IT services provider, CSA Waverley, has agreed a strategic partnership with data protection solutions expert i365, A Seagate Company, to offer customers specialist back up and recovery services to the NHS. Compliance and disaster recovery are firmly at the top of the boardroom agenda as public sector, and in particular NHS organisations, face the challenge of managing and protecting ever increasing amounts of critical data. This is dictating that organisations have to work more efficiently and effectively in the area of data protection. The partnership will see CSA Waverley’s acute understanding o...
Source: CSA Waverley - December 4, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: CSA Waverley Tags: NHS|Technology|Data|Security|Continuity|Compliance|CSA|i365|Advanced|IT|Leaks|Protection Source Type: info

Dorset Trust makes milestone move to adopt server virtualisationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dorset HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust (DHFT) has appointed healthcare IT specialist CSA Waverley to consolidate and virtualise its server and storage infrastructure after identifying a critical need to free up data centre space and power. All applications will now benefit from high availability and resilience, streamlining business continuity processes. The move will see DHFT improve ICT infrastructure costs with a more energy efficient data centre that meets green IT imperatives whilst future proofing application flexibility. It will enable the Trust to better serve staff and patients in a more sustainable manner. ...
Source: CSA Waverley - October 28, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: CSA Waverley Tags: CSA|Waverley|Dorset|PCT|Trust|NHS|Server|Virtualisation|Foundation|DHFT|Healthcare|Disaster|Recovery|Storage|Data|Centre Source Type: info

Doing More for Less – The Future’s Now, the Future’s Disk says CSA Waverley’s Jon Leary.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Given widespread fears of imminent recession, an inevitable focus for many organisations at the moment is working out how to do more with less. This imperative, combined with growing demands to tackle disaster recovery and security more effectively - not least in light of the seemingly endless stream of data breach stories hitting the headlines lately - means that the pressure is now on to sort these key issues out despite progressively limited budgets. But for once, there is a straightforward way to kill all of these birds with a single stone. Rising numbers of organisations are recognising that backing up their va...
Source: CSA Waverley - September 24, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jon Leary Tags: information technology|secure back up|disaster recovery|tape|disk|security Source Type: info