Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Gujarat’s Largest Public hospital Chooses HPE SimpliVity to host its Mission‑Critical applications

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Gujarat’s Largest Public hospital Chooses HPE SimpliVity to host its Mission‑Critical applications

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Facility Management Human Resources
Use Cases	Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research (SVPIMSR) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is a large-scale healthcare facility with 18 floors, 1500 beds, 32 operation theaters, and 139 ICUs. To ensure its smooth functioning, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) needed a reliable and secure IT infrastructure to manage its patient records, hospital ERP, users, and other applications. This infrastructure had to provide secure desktops for thousands of doctors, nurses, and administrative staff. The system had to be resilient enough to offer better uptime, have data protection capabilities to quickly recover from data loss, deliver consistent performance that would not degrade over time, and be disaster recovery-ready for future implementation. Read More
About Customer	The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research (SVPIMSR) is a large-scale healthcare facility located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The facility, which was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in January 2019, is the city's tallest infrastructure. It is equipped with 18 floors, 1500 beds, 32 operation theaters, and 139 ICUs. The hospital is set up by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) with the aim of offering affordable and high-quality healthcare to all. The hospital is digitally enabled and integrates every single hospital service into a single command and console center, which shows everything from energy utilization to ICUs, revenue per bed per department, pharmacy, or even the number of cases of dengue being handled. Read More
Solution	After detailed discussions with numerous vendors, AMC chose HPE SimpliVity as the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. HCI is the latest data center architecture that combines storage, compute, and networking into a single system. It helps reduce complexity, power and space requirements, which in turn helps improve management and saves cost since there are fewer components to manage. HPE SimpliVity was a clear choice for the IT infrastructure because it has been designed from ground-up for such hospital requirements. The platform can do inline data deduplication, optimization, and compression on all the data right at inception, which can help organizations achieve 40:1 data efficiency across all storage including backups. It’s a recoverable backup that’s an integrated part of the system. On top of that, the system has global unified management capabilities that enable IT to manage all resources and workloads centrally using familiar interfaces such as VMware vCenter®. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Human Resources

Use Cases

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research (SVPIMSR) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is a large-scale healthcare facility with 18 floors, 1500 beds, 32 operation theaters, and 139 ICUs. To ensure its smooth functioning, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) needed a reliable and secure IT infrastructure to manage its patient records, hospital ERP, users, and other applications. This infrastructure had to provide secure desktops for thousands of doctors, nurses, and administrative staff. The system had to be resilient enough to offer better uptime, have data protection capabilities to quickly recover from data loss, deliver consistent performance that would not degrade over time, and be disaster recovery-ready for future implementation.

About Customer

The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research (SVPIMSR) is a large-scale healthcare facility located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The facility, which was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in January 2019, is the city's tallest infrastructure. It is equipped with 18 floors, 1500 beds, 32 operation theaters, and 139 ICUs. The hospital is set up by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) with the aim of offering affordable and high-quality healthcare to all. The hospital is digitally enabled and integrates every single hospital service into a single command and console center, which shows everything from energy utilization to ICUs, revenue per bed per department, pharmacy, or even the number of cases of dengue being handled.

Solution

After detailed discussions with numerous vendors, AMC chose HPE SimpliVity as the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. HCI is the latest data center architecture that combines storage, compute, and networking into a single system. It helps reduce complexity, power and space requirements, which in turn helps improve management and saves cost since there are fewer components to manage. HPE SimpliVity was a clear choice for the IT infrastructure because it has been designed from ground-up for such hospital requirements. The platform can do inline data deduplication, optimization, and compression on all the data right at inception, which can help organizations achieve 40:1 data efficiency across all storage including backups. It’s a recoverable backup that’s an integrated part of the system. On top of that, the system has global unified management capabilities that enable IT to manage all resources and workloads centrally using familiar interfaces such as VMware vCenter®.

Impact #1	The HCI platform with its inherent data protection capabilities enables the hospital to stay compliant with stringent healthcare norms because all critical healthcare systems are well protected.
Impact #2	Being a HCI platform, it would result in considerable cost savings in terms of power and space. The entire solution would be delivered in less than 30 rack units and it allows the management of all applications, including backup and DR from a single console, which further brings down the administrative overheads considerably.
Impact #3	The system is also highly scalable allowing it to take on more workloads in the future. Currently, the hospital is running around 500 beds on HPE SimpliVity, but the solution is tuned to handle the entire load of 1500 beds as and when they are added with minimal increase in infrastructure. Its architecture is such that it can scale beyond that as well when required without any problems.

Impact #1

The HCI platform with its inherent data protection capabilities enables the hospital to stay compliant with stringent healthcare norms because all critical healthcare systems are well protected.

Impact #2

Being a HCI platform, it would result in considerable cost savings in terms of power and space. The entire solution would be delivered in less than 30 rack units and it allows the management of all applications, including backup and DR from a single console, which further brings down the administrative overheads considerably.

Impact #3

The system is also highly scalable allowing it to take on more workloads in the future. Currently, the hospital is running around 500 beds on HPE SimpliVity, but the solution is tuned to handle the entire load of 1500 beds as and when they are added with minimal increase in infrastructure. Its architecture is such that it can scale beyond that as well when required without any problems.

Benefit #1	Inline data deduplication, optimization, and compression on all data right at inception, helping in achieving 40:1 data efficiency across all storage, including backups
Benefit #2	Considerable cost savings in power and space, consuming less than 30 rack units
Benefit #3	Guaranteed restoration of 1 TB virtual machine in just 60 seconds

Benefit #1

Inline data deduplication, optimization, and compression on all data right at inception, helping in achieving 40:1 data efficiency across all storage, including backups

Benefit #2

Considerable cost savings in power and space, consuming less than 30 rack units

Benefit #3

Guaranteed restoration of 1 TB virtual machine in just 60 seconds

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Gujarat’s Largest Public hospital Chooses HPE SimpliVity to host its Mission‑Critical applications

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