Maimonides Medical Center, a Brooklyn NY-based and leading
independent teaching hospital, has leveraged storage virtualization to help
drive staff productivity, cost savings and better operational performance. The
flexibility of DataCore’s software architecture has enabled Maimonides to meet
the dynamic range of performance, availability and capacity growth demands
needed to stay ahead of compliance regulations and their ever-changing
applications and system requirements.
“As a result of
DataCore’s software-defined storage platform, we have seen significant savings
in hardware and personnel costs, while increasing the performance of
applications,” said Gabriel Sandu, CTO at Maimonides Medical Center.
“DataCore’s SANsymphony-V allows us to manage all these discrete systems from
different vendors seamlessly and without compatibility issues, which gives us
tremendous negotiating power to drive down costs.”
The hospital has been able to meet change head-on and has improved
productivity, achieved better cost containment and consolidated online storage
resources that span multiple remote locations all under the management of
DataCore’s storage virtualization platform. A multitude of primary
business-critical applications are under the central control of DataCore’s
SANsymphony-V – including:
- GE’s imaging system (PACS)
- Numerous Oracle databases for
human resources
- Microsoft SQL servers for
clinical programs
- Primary databases for neonatal,
geriatric, pediatric and research
- Microsoft Exchange and IBM DB2
databases that support medical records
Cost Containment and Full Asset Utilization – Courtesy of
Software-defined Storage
More than 800 physicians rely on Maimonides information systems to
care for patients. Before working with DataCore, the organization had a number
of disparate systems not working in conjunction with each other. This ad-hoc
approach decreased efficiencies and intelligence around what departments were
in need of storage resources.
With all storage now managed through DataCore software, the
medical center can fully leverage existing storage assets, reduce costs, and
track storage consumption, as well as more efficiently budget for the future by
easily identifying usage patterns. Maimonides also now utilizes previously
unused storage throughout the hospital because resources are pooled and easily
optimized.
Productivity Improvement: Super-charged Performance & Capacity
On-demand
The intelligence and automation that DataCore’s SANsymphony-V
provides reduces the work needed to manage the hospital’s petabyte of data.
Maimonides now has a pool of storage that can be “served up” to each department
rather than purchasing resources separately.
“DataCore’s self-tuning caching capabilities also allow Maimonides
to super-charge application performance,” said Rogee Fe de Leon, head of the
storage group at Maimonides Medical Center.
Risk Reduction and Metro-wide Data Protection for Continuous
Availability
The hospital uses DataCore to split storage between two data
centers using stretched metro-clusters and DataCore’s built-in metro-wide
mirroring, enabling them to provide responsive applications and uninterrupted
patient care during routine maintenance, equipment failures and facility
upheaval. For example, when the hospital experienced a major power outage in
one data center, the doctors, staff and patients had continuous access to their
vital data from the virtualized storage pool at the redundant site. Once power
was restored, the systems returned automatically to normal operations.
Business Continuity and Non-Stop Operations
“High availability for our operations was the first and foremost
reason for going with DataCore,” adds Rogee Fe de Leon. “Now, everything that
is mission-critical to running the hospital is supported by DataCore. Users not
only receive faster access to data, but they benefit from simpler provisioning
and more server capacity as well.”
Having rock-solid business continuity remains the overriding
benefit Maimonides derives from DataCore’s solution. Maimonides can now cluster
applications between sites through on-demand, available storage serving remote
locations. If outages occur, IT systems don’t go down with the affected site
and continue providing non-stop business operations.
“Maimonides is leading by example, demonstrating how
software-defined storage architectures can meet the management challenges of
the modern-day data center on shrinking budgets,” said Melody Brown, vice
president sales for the Americas, DataCore Software. “We congratulate
Maimonides for being our first recipient of the DataCore Healthcare Innovator
Award. Like Maimonides, SANsymphony-V sets the standard for flexible and
trusted data storage management for the software-defined data center.”
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