IBM Case Studies Ensuring System Availability For Mission Critical Applications

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Ensuring System Availability For Mission Critical Applications

IBM

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Challenge	Among the many challenges that Day Kimball Hospital faced included difficulties in performing maintenance on their applications, system hardware and completing backups within an acceptable backup window. It was a challenge to find the downtime necessary to upgrade their firmware. Read More
About Customer	Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, Connecticut, is a premier provider of integrated healthcare services in northeast Connecticut. Serving the region for more than 120 years, the hospital offers acute and general medical and surgical care, including a 24-hour Read More
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Solution	After careful evaluation of Day Kimball's environment and specific requirements, Innovative designed a High-Availability Disaster Recovery solution involving a second IBM Power System and Vision Solutions Application Level Mirroring software. The Vision Solutions Software was tuned to take advantage of newer features that will help Day Kimball maintain a role-swap ready state, allowing switching applications from the source to the target system. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Backup, Downtime, Operation Performance Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Challenge

Among the many challenges that Day Kimball Hospital faced included difficulties in performing maintenance on their applications, system hardware and completing backups within an acceptable backup window. It was a challenge to find the downtime necessary to upgrade their firmware.

About Customer

Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, Connecticut, is a premier provider of integrated healthcare services in northeast Connecticut. Serving the region for more than 120 years, the hospital offers acute and general medical and surgical care, including a 24-hour

Customer Name

Day Kimball Hospital

Solution

After careful evaluation of Day Kimball's environment and specific requirements, Innovative designed a High-Availability Disaster Recovery solution involving a second IBM Power System and Vision Solutions Application Level Mirroring software. The Vision Solutions Software was tuned to take advantage of newer features that will help Day Kimball maintain a role-swap ready state, allowing switching applications from the source to the target system.

Data Collected

Backup, Downtime, Operation Performance

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - IT] Day Kimball now has the most robust business continuity solution, allowing rapid role-swap between production and target systems, enabling IT staff to perform periodic role-swap test and system and application maintenance.

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - IT]
Day Kimball now has the most robust business continuity solution, allowing rapid role-swap between production and target systems, enabling IT staff to perform periodic role-swap test and system and application maintenance.

Benefit #1	The hospital has upgraded their Power Systems technology 4-5 times over the last 18 years and uses this solution for all migrations, and conversions to new technology seamlessly with no disruption in operations.

Benefit #1

The hospital has upgraded their Power Systems technology 4-5 times over the last 18 years and uses this solution for all migrations, and conversions to new technology seamlessly with no disruption in operations.

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Ensuring System Availability For Mission Critical Applications

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