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Salem Hospital adopts Cisco UCS to
streamline data center management and
increase business agility.
Business Challenge
Salem Health is a not-for-profit organization that exists to improve the health and well-
being of the people and communities of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Its facilities include
Salem Hospital, a regional medical center that is one of the largest of Oregon’s 58
acute care hospitals and operates the state’s busiest emergency department.
being of the people and communities of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Its facilities include
Salem Hospital, a regional medical center that is one of the largest of Oregon’s 58
acute care hospitals and operates the state’s busiest emergency department.
Salem Health works to help ensure its IT infrastructure delivers the performance and
capabilities that clinicians need to provide the best patient experiences and outcomes
possible. The provider leveraged Cisco® Data Center Advantage and a Cisco 10
Gigabit Ethernet fabric to upgrade its Salem Hospital data center to help ensure
business continuity and accommodate growing data volumes from electronic medical
records.
capabilities that clinicians need to provide the best patient experiences and outcomes
possible. The provider leveraged Cisco® Data Center Advantage and a Cisco 10
Gigabit Ethernet fabric to upgrade its Salem Hospital data center to help ensure
business continuity and accommodate growing data volumes from electronic medical
records.
Once those issues had been successfully resolved, Salem Health turned its attention to
the performance of its primary clinical application, EPIC. The organization not only wanted
to look at a new colocation provider, but also take further control of its applications by
leveraging data center solutions that would help to increase performance and manageability
in a more scalable, sustainable virtualized environment.
the performance of its primary clinical application, EPIC. The organization not only wanted
to look at a new colocation provider, but also take further control of its applications by
leveraging data center solutions that would help to increase performance and manageability
in a more scalable, sustainable virtualized environment.
Hospital Transforms Data Center to
Business Advantage
• Customer Name: Salem Hospital
• Industry: Healthcare
• Location: Salem, Oregon
• Number of Employees: 4000
• Industry: Healthcare
• Location: Salem, Oregon
• Number of Employees: 4000
Business Challenge
• Improve performance and availability
of critical systems
• Increase system manageability for
business agility
• Reduce costs
Network Solution
• Built data centers with Cisco UCS
infrastructure to support mission-
critical systems and applications
Results
• Reduced time to provision server by
66 percent through new virtualized
environment
• Cut time to reimage server from
days to half hour; time to add new
disk from months to day
• Slashed annual operating
expenditure by US$900,000
through reduced equipment,
licensing, and staffing costs
Executive Summary