NHS Digital has announced its reached an agreement to provide VWware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to NHS organisations at a discount.
The move is hoped to support trusts and CCGs move to cloud-first data centres and away from traditional costly local network storage.
NHS Digital has already began migrating data across to the cloud and will continue to move more cloud services across as part of a cloud-first initiative.
Rob Shaw, Deputy Chief Executive of NHS Digital, said: “The uptake of digital services in the NHS is accelerating so the NHS and social care’s IT backbone must be up to the job. With VMware Cloud on AWS, we’re providing a resilient platform to support digitally-enabled care today and in the future.”
“We now have a commercial framework in place to enable NHS and public-sector organizations to confidently use the cloud. Together we can benefit from the economies of scale and cost efficiencies of this model.”
Mike Flintoft, Associate Director for Platforms and Infrastructure at NHS Digital, said: “We choose the right cloud for each workload, and VMware Cloud on AWS is the absolute best option for running our vSphere-based environments in the cloud.”
“It’s easy to move solutions across the different environments and it’s easy to run and manage. We built a virtual data centre in the AWS cloud in less than three hours. That speed and agility is just what we need to harness innovation and make the best digital services available for the NHS and social care sector.”
