DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - October 17, 2007) - Storage Networking World -- Mercy Medical Center
- Des Moines is providing its staff with faster access to data with a new
storage area network (SAN) based on Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) data storage
technology. The Cisco-based SAN will enable the medical center to
accommodate the rapid growth of data, improve business continuity, and meet
compliance requirements for accessing and storing data. The new SAN has
also enabled Mercy to implement a robust disaster recovery plan and support
faster access to data.
"Fast recoverability, throughput, and scalability were the critical factors
we needed for our long term success," said Roger Wilson, Systems and
Networking Manager, Mercy Medical Center. "We also liked the Cisco SAN
monitoring and diagnostic tools -- you don't realize how important that is
until you're in the middle of troubleshooting."
One of the Midwest's major medical referral centers, with three campuses
and more than 6,500 employees, Mercy Medical Center consolidated two
separate SAN "islands" into one large, highly available SAN based on Cisco
MDS 9509 Multilayer Directors. Cisco CWDM Multiplexers connect the main
data center to a secondary backup and disaster recovery site, supporting
the medical center's robust disaster recovery plan. Since physicians,
clinicians, and administrators have all come to rely on email as a quick
means of communication, the SAN will also be used to deploy backup storage
for email.
"All our critical applications, including human resources, financials, and
clinic scheduling, are stored on the SAN," said Wilson. "With our new
system in place, we can mirror both data and mission critical applications
to the remote site to ensure very quick recovery in the event of disaster."
Cisco virtual SAN (VSAN) technology was one of the deciding factors that
led Mercy to select Cisco over other vendors. The medical center used VSAN
capability to migrate data from the old SAN to the new one, then to
separate production data from backup data. Mercy also benefits from
investment protection because the modular design and flexible architecture
of the Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Directors allow the storage team to
non-disruptively add capacity and deploy new intelligent fabric
applications by adding additional line cards, without a huge forklift
upgrade.
"We can easily add new future capabilities now, and that's key to
supporting our needs for the future," said Wilson.
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