Supporting NHS Trusts Running Dedalus on IBM AIX
10 August 2026 - 1 Minute Read
Many NHS Trusts rely on Dedalus applications running on IBM Power Systems and IBM AIX for critical clinical workloads.
The challenge is that experienced IBM AIX skills are becoming harder to retain in-house, particularly as IT teams increasingly focus on Windows, VMware and cloud platforms.
Baby Blue IT has been supporting multiple NHS Trusts with specialist IBM AIX Professional Services, including:
• IBM AIX health checks, upgrades and patching
• Security and backup reviews
• Migration from legacy EMC storage to newer Dell storage
• Replacing storage-level replication with IBM PowerHA for high availability
• Performance and resilience improvements
• Ongoing IBM AIX Monitoring and Managed System Administration
After completing several standalone projects, one NHS Trust has now moved to our ongoing IBM AIX monitoring and managed system administration service.
Baby Blue IT can work directly with NHS Trusts or through CDW UK, providing access to experienced IBM AIX specialists without the need to maintain all of that expertise internally.
If your NHS Trust runs Dedalus on IBM AIX and has gaps around support, security, upgrades, PowerHA, storage or day-to-day AIX administration, please get in touch.
About the Author
Will Nicholls
Will Nicholls is an industry recognised expert in the field of Hardware & Software Maintenance services especially around all IBM platforms. Will has worked in this field as a salesman for over 25 years and in his time has won some of the largest third party maintenance contracts many of which, due to his passion for account management, stayed with him for multiple years. Will is known for his innovation, bringing new, highly profitable services to the organisations he worked for. Will is now responsible all things maintenance related and making sure that we always do the right thing for the Customer.
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