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	Leading Health Care Provider Solves Disaster Recovery Challenge with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Leading Health Care Provider Solves Disaster Recovery Challenge with SimpliVity

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	Business Operation Maintenance
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC), the largest and most comprehensive federally qualified health center in Maine, was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure. The existing infrastructure, a mix of HP servers and Dell Compellent storage arrays, was running out of capacity and becoming increasingly costly and risky to maintain. Applications and data were only backed up locally, so equipment failures or catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical IT services for an extended period of time. With elements of the data center approaching end-of-life, Jason Lewis, Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for PCHC, decided the time was right for a technology refresh. Read More
About Customer	Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) is the largest and most comprehensive federally qualified health center in Maine. It provides a wide range of healthcare services to the local community. The organization was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure, which was becoming increasingly costly and risky to maintain. The existing infrastructure was a mix of HP servers and Dell Compellent storage arrays, and was running out of capacity. In addition, applications and data were only backed up locally, which meant that equipment failures or catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical IT services for an extended period of time. Read More
Solution	After evaluating a number of options including solutions from Dell, Pivot3 and a hosted service provider, Lewis selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for PCHC’s next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity's solution stood out due to its built-in data replication, deduplication and optimization features. The solution packs the entire IT stack, including data backup and recovery functionality, into one device. PCHC replaced an entire rack of legacy equipment with four 2U SimpliVity nodes in its primary data center, saving an estimated $34,500 in annual power and cooling costs. A fully redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of equipment failures or application mishaps. Two additional SimpliVity nodes in a remote colocation facility enable seamless disaster recovery. 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

Business Operation

Maintenance

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC), the largest and most comprehensive federally qualified health center in Maine, was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure. The existing infrastructure, a mix of HP servers and Dell Compellent storage arrays, was running out of capacity and becoming increasingly costly and risky to maintain. Applications and data were only backed up locally, so equipment failures or catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical IT services for an extended period of time. With elements of the data center approaching end-of-life, Jason Lewis, Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for PCHC, decided the time was right for a technology refresh.

About Customer

Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) is the largest and most comprehensive federally qualified health center in Maine. It provides a wide range of healthcare services to the local community. The organization was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure, which was becoming increasingly costly and risky to maintain. The existing infrastructure was a mix of HP servers and Dell Compellent storage arrays, and was running out of capacity. In addition, applications and data were only backed up locally, which meant that equipment failures or catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical IT services for an extended period of time.

Solution

After evaluating a number of options including solutions from Dell, Pivot3 and a hosted service provider, Lewis selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for PCHC’s next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity's solution stood out due to its built-in data replication, deduplication and optimization features. The solution packs the entire IT stack, including data backup and recovery functionality, into one device. PCHC replaced an entire rack of legacy equipment with four 2U SimpliVity nodes in its primary data center, saving an estimated $34,500 in annual power and cooling costs. A fully redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of equipment failures or application mishaps. Two additional SimpliVity nodes in a remote colocation facility enable seamless disaster recovery.

Impact #1	Fast and efficient disaster recovery; rapid backup and restoration for all applications and IT services
Impact #2	Accelerated IT service agility; clone and move large VMs in seconds
Impact #3	High availability;100% uptime since inception

Impact #1

Fast and efficient disaster recovery; rapid backup and restoration for all applications and IT services

Impact #2

Accelerated IT service agility; clone and move large VMs in seconds

Impact #3

High availability;100% uptime since inception

Benefit #1	Saved an estimated $34,500 in annual power and cooling costs
Benefit #2	Maintains 1.25 PB of data using just 40 TB of physical storage

Benefit #1

Saved an estimated $34,500 in annual power and cooling costs

Benefit #2

Maintains 1.25 PB of data using just 40 TB of physical storage

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Leading Health Care Provider Solves Disaster Recovery Challenge with SimpliVity

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