WA Health flags infrastructure overhaul

Western Australia Health will tender for the procurement of managed central computing services. The procurement will see WA Health source primary and secondary data centres, servers, storage, appliances, firewalls, and a data network. It will also feature a strong services component including data centre management services, disaster recovery services, project services and relocation services to help facilitate the move to the new provider.

The massive undertaking will commence in late November, with the primary data centre slated to be fully operational at the end of April 2011, while the second data centre will be up and running by early June 2011.

The primary data centre will be located in WA, offer Tier 3 certification and will have a minimum capacity of 125 square metres. The contract for the new data centres will be for a period of up to eight years. WA Health’s existing data centres are located in the Perth metropolitan area. The primary centre hosts Health’s business critical production applications and the secondary centre is the disaster recovery site. The management contract for the primary data centre is due to expire on 30 April 2011, while the secondary centre is due to expire on 7 June 2011.

The data centre renewal is part of a wider Infrastructure project and is part of six major IT initiatives underway at WA Health aimed at ensuring ICT can support the future health needs of the state.

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