Information requested

  1. What is your annual IT Budget for 2021, 2022 & 2023?.
  2. Storage:
    1. What storage vendor(s) and models do you currently use?
    2. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB & How much of this is utilised?
    3. What were the installation dates of the above storage vendor(s)? (Month/Year)
    4. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/Year)?
    5. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?
    6. What is your estimated budget for the storage refresh?
  3. Server/Computer:
    1. What server vendor(s) and models do you currently use?
    2. What were the installation dates of the above server vendor(s)? (Month/Year)
    3. When is your planned (or estimated) server refresh date? (Month/Year)
    4. What is your estimated budget for the server refresh
    5. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?
    6. Which operating systems are used?
  4. Backup, DR and BC:
    1. What device/system do you use for your daily backups (e.g tape or disk)
    2. What backup software do you use?
    3. How much data do you backup, in TB?
    4. Do you use a third party to provide a Business Continuity service (e.g. office workplace recovery or infrastructure ship-to-site solutions)?
    5. Does your current recovery solution meet your stakeholder’s RTO/RPO expectations?
    6. Do you already backup into the cloud?
    7. Do you have a documented disaster recovery & business continuity plan in place?
  5. Number of Physical servers?
  6. Number of virtualised servers? & Which Virtualisation platform do you use

NHSCFA response

  1. What is your annual IT Budget for 2021, 2022 & 2023?

    2. The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) IT budget for the financial year 2021/22 is £1.9m. This excludes some of the IT capital budget as this is yet to be confirmed.

    The NHSCFA IT budget for financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24 is yet to be confirmed.

  2. Storage:
    1. What storage vendor(s) and models do you currently use?

      2. HP SAN and Blade Storage

    2. What is the capacity of the storage data in TB & How much of this is utilised?

      3. 75/65+

    3. What were the installation dates of the above storage vendor(s)? (Month/Year)

      4. Various dates over the last 10 years.

      To extract this information would exceed the appropriate limit of £450.

      If you were to frame your request for a narrower category of information, it may be that we can comply with your request.

    4. When is your planned (or estimated) storage refresh date? (Month/Year)?

      5. Not Applicable

    5. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?

      6. Yes. HP

    6. What is your estimated budget for the storage refresh?

      7. Not Applicable.

  3. Server/Compute:
    1. What server vendor(s) and models do you currently use?

      2. HP DL range

    2. What were the installation dates of the above server vendor(s)? (Month/Year)

      3. Various dates over the last 7 years.

      To extract this information would exceed the appropriate limit of £450.

      If you were to frame your request for a narrower category of information, it may be that we can comply with your request.

    3. When is your planned (or estimated) server refresh date? (Month/Year)

      4. Not Applicable.

    4. What is your estimated budget for the server refresh?

      5. Nil

    5. Do you have any extended warranties, if so, with which supplier?

      6. Yes, HP.

    6. Which operating systems are used?

      7. Windows, Linux.

  4. Backup, DR and BC:
    1. What device/system do you use for your daily backups (e.g tape or disk)

      2. Tape.

    2. What backup software do you use?

      3. Arcserve

    3. How much data do you backup, in TB?

      4. 60

    4. Do you use a third party to provide a Business Continuity service (e.g. office workplace recovery or infrastructure ship-to-site solutions)?

      5. No

    5. Does your current recovery solution meet your stakeholder’s RTO/RPO expectations?

      6. Yes

    6. Do you already backup into the cloud?

      7. Yes.

    7. Do you have a documented disaster recovery & business continuity plan in place?

      8. Yes.

    8. Number of Physical servers?

      9. 65

    9. Number of virtualised servers? & Which Virtualisation platform do you use

      10. 80 - VMware