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NHSBT: UK National Health Service - Blood and Transport The UK National Blood Service manages the human blood supply throughout England and North Wales. It tracks the blood supply from when it is first donated through its testing and separation into various products and finally to its dispatch to hospitals.
If the National Blood Service is not operational, lives can be lost. This is particularly true following a major catastrophe. Therefore, the availability of the computing infrastructure used by the NBS is of paramount importance.
To ensure that data-processing services will not be interrupted, the NBS has established dual processing centers using split-site OpenVMS clusters that provide multiple levels of redundancy. It has just recently undergone a major upgrade to this system - an upgrade that was accomplished with minimal disruption in services. This article describes the upgraded NBS system.