Rackspace Technology Leveraged a Combination of Public, Private, and Government Cloud Solutions for CNWL NHS Foundation Trust to Expand its Service Capabilities while Safeguarding Sensitive Data
April 05 2023 - 12:05PM
Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ:
RXT), a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company,
today announced the CNWL NHS Foundation Trust leveraged a
combination of public, private, and government cloud solutions to
address enormous pressure to meet the growing demand for its
healthcare services and security for its mounting volume of patient
data.
Founded in 2002, the Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS
Foundation Trust provides healthcare in London, Milton Keynes,
Surrey, and elsewhere. With a staff of over 8,500, it provides
over 300 services in 150 locations and 40 partner locations.
Before the pandemic, CNWL partnered with Rackspace Technology to
implement a long-term digital transformation project, migrating
legacy systems to Rackspace Private cloud and then moving to a
multicloud IT environment via Rackspace Government Cloud on
Microsoft® Azure®. When COVID-19 hit, the healthcare organization
put its transformation plans on hold. It pivoted to focusing on
supporting remote work and new models of patient care with the help
of its Rackspace Technology team.
“With Rackspace Private Cloud already providing the flexibility,
speed, and resilience it needed to bring innovation to its
services, CNWL also deployed a public cloud on Microsoft Azure to
deliver some of its services,” said Owen Powell, Director of ICT,
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. “To help ensure optimized security for
its vast stores of sensitive patient data, Rackspace Technology
recommended Rackspace Government Cloud, a fully managed security
platform-as-a-service.”
“Cloud services are increasingly crucial to how the NHS delivers
its services throughout England,” said D K Sinha, President, Public
Cloud Business Unit for Rackspace Technology. “The commitment to
the cloud has resulted in the creation of NHS’s Cloud Centre of
Excellence (CCoE), designed to promote best practices and drive the
adoption of cloud services throughout its organizations. And CNWL
is helping to lead the way.”
Since expanding and optimizing its multicloud infrastructure,
CNWL has gained the agility and speed it needs to innovate. Among
its innovations is a digital auditing application allowing
clinicians to collect data on their phones or computers instead of
paper and pen. Another innovation is using QR codes on high-risk
medications, allowing patients to watch videos instead of reading
instructions.
“There’s always pressure on capacity and change in the NHS,”
said Nigel Tazzyman, CNWL’s Deputy Director of ICT. “In our
multicloud environment, we can react quickly to those changes.
Previously, it would have taken weeks or months to deliver new
technologies and infrastructure, and now we can often turn projects
around in four to five days. And for the past three years, we’ve
reduced our footprint, servers, and workloads by about 20%. And
we’ve reduced costs between 15% and 18% just through
optimization.”
Click here to read their full case study and here to watch a
video about the Rackspace Technology CNWL technology
modernization.
About Rackspace TechnologyRackspace
Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology
services company. We can design, build and operate our customers'
cloud environments across all major technology platforms,
irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We partner
with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey, enabling
them to modernize applications, build new products and adopt
innovative technologies.
Media ContactNatalie
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