Healthcare Organizations Select Cisco Unified Computing System, Nexus, and MDS Storage Solutions for High Reliability and Availability
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Moses Cone Health System selected the Cisco Unified Computing System™ as its next-generation computing platform to support computerized physician-order entry and to help the organization transition to electronic medical records (EMRs), top priorities for improving patient care.
Deploying the Cisco Unified Computing System helped Moses Cone Health System expand EMRs quickly, while minimizing the network infrastructure build-out and reducing the time needed to configure servers. The high availability and flexibility of the Cisco Unified Computing System has been a key success factor, as it powers the program used to update real-time electronic medical records and support critical clinical applications such as radiology and lab systems.
Virtua deployed a Cisco Medical Grade Network to address the strain being placed on its network and data centers by new applications, medical images and a new regional health information exchange. To solve the challenges and increase performance, Virtua outsourced data center services to a remote facility while using an existing data center for disaster recovery. To connect the hospital core network and its data centers, Virtua deployed an advanced Cisco data center Ethernet-based network, including Cisco Nexus® data center switches, Cisco MDS storage solutions, and high-speed Cisco optical solutions.
The virtualization capabilities, high reliability and 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance of Cisco's Data Center Business Advantage solutions were important differentiators. Virtua's new data center features an all-Nexus portfolio, including the Nexus 7000, 5000, and 2000 data center switches, which provides the capacity needed to support extensive electronic picture archiving and communications systems. Going forward, Virtua will be moving to a Unified Fabric with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), linking storage capabilities directly to the data center infrastructure, to achieve cabling and power savings. The Cisco optical networking solution links Virtua hospital sites together so that virtual machines can now be transferred virtually between sites, avoiding the expense and downtime of physically moving servers.
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"We started with a small deployment of the Cisco Unified Computing System to support our clinical data warehouse application, but the advantages were so compelling that we've expanded the architecture extensively and will standardize on the Cisco platform going forward. We have tremendous flexibility in our architecture now, enabling us to move workloads and add capacity quickly as needed, with much faster provisioning for new business applications."
- Michael Heil, manager of technology infrastructure Moses Cone Health System
"Virtualization and high availability were key requirements for us, as our existing data centers were becoming strained and we needed to move virtual servers to a new, remote data center. With Cisco Data Center Business Advantage, we were able to move virtual machines between data centers quickly and efficiently, greatly reducing expenses and downtime. We estimate that moving 160 servers virtually instead of physically will save us nearly $100,000."
- Chas Thawley, assistant vice president of technology, Virtua
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