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DataCore Heals Hospital Storage Woes
DataCore Software, a leading independent software vendor specializing in storage control, management and consolidation, today announced that Sentara Healthcare of Virginia, has implemented SANsymphony(tm) software to enable the award-winning health network establish an enduring storage practice that provides the highest levels of availability, data protection and performance. Keane, Inc., a leading business and information technology (IT) outsourcing firm, worked closely with Sentara to architect and deploy the solution.
"Sentara's mission is to serve our broad community with innovative, high quality health services, and in today's world, that involves extensive digitization of clinical and administrative systems," said Dale Smith, director of IT, Sentara Healthcare. "DataCore SANsymphony enables Sentara to ensure that our critical medical systems provide cost-effective, continuous and incredibly high-speed access to data."
The new storage network supports Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM) and has provided significant patient care benefits configured for pharmacy use. SCM employs a rules engine to provide sophisticated screening for allergies, interactions, dose and duplication as well as checks of medication orders versus laboratory results. The end result is that the system notifies the pharmacists of potential problems with medication therapy long before they can cause harm to the patients. SCM runs on a Microsoft SQL Server platform in a multi-clustered environment utilizing a range of hardware from HP and serial ATA (SATA storage).
Sentara is testing the performance of high-end arrays using SANsymphony to control and accelerate low-cost SATA storage. Three months ago, copying a volume within an array took three hours. Performing the same routine, but now copying the same data off the array to the DataCore-managed SATA storage, takes just one hour. Defragmenting a database now only takes 20 minutes instead of three hours. Sentara is achieving similar results creating disk-based backups for production servers.
"Keane is seeing these same kinds of astonishing performance results at multiple clients for whom we deliver Application Development services," said Blake White, service delivery manager, Keane, Inc. "Performance is just part of the story. The increased protection derived from physically separating redundant copies of data across different hardware, the cost-efficiencies of using different tiers of storage, and the benefits of having a consolidated point of management for all hardware going forward are tremendous advantages for enterprises of all sizes."
"World-class consulting practices like Keane and large regional health systems like Sentara are using SANsymphony to set the pace for the storage industry," said Bharat Kumar, vice president of worldwide marketing at DataCore. "These organizations are taking advantage of a new archetype for the storage practice, one that trims costs, minimizes hardware dependencies and leverages all the best technologies the industry has to offer."
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