Our work Critical infrastructure upgrade
Case study · NHS
Critical infrastructure upgrade
Replacing the servers that run an NHS customer's building management, access control and environmental control systems, without losing data or disrupting the sites that rely on them.
- Client
- NHS customer, England
- Systems
- Building management, access control, environmental controls
- Completed
- April 2024
- Support
- 10 years of firmware and drivers
The challenge
- The servers behind building management, access control and environmental controls were outdated
- More storage and better data resilience were needed
- Licensing and government guidelines had to be met
- Downtime during the switch-over had to be minimal
- Single points of failure had to go
- The setup had to be cost-effective, modular and vendor-independent
What we did
- Installed three high-performance SuperMicro rackmount servers, with modular parts and an extended warranty
- Added 8TB of storage per server and faster data handling
- Licensed the servers with Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
- Disposed of the old hardware under NCSC and WEEE guidelines
- Moved the data across in phases, with contingency plans to prevent loss
- Spread workloads across multiple sites
- Tested everything after go-live
The results
Built to last
A scalable setup with 10 years of firmware and driver support.
No single point of failure
Workloads spread across sites, so one fault doesn't stop everything.
Faster across sites
Better performance wherever the system runs.
Cheaper to upgrade
Modular parts mean lower upgrade costs and shorter repairs.
Compliant
Aligned with licensing, security and disposal rules.
Technology
SuperMicro rackmount serversWindows Server 2022 DatacenterModular server componentsNCSC and WEEE disposal
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