The data dilemma

Research teams working in health and life sciences need to share and analyse highly sensitive data seamlessly, with absolute confidence that their networks and servers are robust, secure and fully compliant.
But building trustworthy research environments from scratch and running them in compliance with institutional policy and regulatory standards diverts valuable budget, time and resource away from the central purpose of the work.

A safe solution

To solve this problem, ARO has designed and built a secure cloud platform based on the principles and best practices for trustworthy research environment. Our solution provides safe storage and secure access to research data within an accredited and approved UK datacentre facility, allowing connectivity to data sources on HSCN, across the internet, or directly.

Delivered by experts with over 60 years’ collective experience, our solution is designed specifically to meet the needs of health and life science researchers, configured in line with all relevant UK information governance and data security standards and rigorously tested to ensure full regulatory compliance.

ARO is one of a small handful of providers with the skills and experience required to deliver this service to the necessary standards. We understand the time, resource and budget constraints that researchers typically have to work within, and have designed our service to address these with a range of benefits, including:

• Speed to implement. Users can be up and running in under 12 weeks and project managers can plan with confidence and reduce lead times.
• Fixed budget framework. Costs can be accurately predicted, with cloud-flex capability to support short term spikes or longer term structural program changes.
• Fully managed service. We handle everything, including hardware provisioning, operating system, application layer, accreditation and compliance, user access and management, and help desk support.
• Expert help. Our standards and methodology for deploying and managing health research infrastructure have helped shape national standards such as Health Data Research UK (HDRUK).