The Client Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust (MEHT) based in Chelmsford has taken steps to ensure complete business continuity for its clinical IT services, implementing “n+1” level redundancy in its primary and back-up server rooms. The new platform was built with APC infrastructure consultancy and hardware from on365, which is a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of physical IT infrastructure and utility services. MEHT decided to build in complete uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) and cooling redundancy in the data centre after experiencing several power losses at its Broomfield hospital site in Chelmsford. Although the trust’s IT and estates departments had maintained clinical services using generators and UPS – for a 14 hour period on

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