HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director Switch A7988B Prospecto
Los códigos de productos
A7988B
2
care quality. According to Rick Allen, Gwinnett’s
Assistant Vice President, Information Systems, one of
the ways in which the hospital system has been able to
continue to provide top quality care and expand
services is by working closely with key partners such as
HP and McKesson Corporation. “For instance, we
were one of the earliest users of the HP Enterprise
Virtual Array (EVA) storage systems, and we worked
hard to certify the HP Medical Archive solution (MAS)
with our McKesson Picture Archive and Communication
System (PACS) back in 2003,” Allen explains. “We
have worked with both HP and McKesson on many
other applications that are critical to our operations.”
Assistant Vice President, Information Systems, one of
the ways in which the hospital system has been able to
continue to provide top quality care and expand
services is by working closely with key partners such as
HP and McKesson Corporation. “For instance, we
were one of the earliest users of the HP Enterprise
Virtual Array (EVA) storage systems, and we worked
hard to certify the HP Medical Archive solution (MAS)
with our McKesson Picture Archive and Communication
System (PACS) back in 2003,” Allen explains. “We
have worked with both HP and McKesson on many
other applications that are critical to our operations.”
Robust HP storage solutions are highly manageable
and vital for hospital information
Gwinnett uses its HP EVA storage-area network (SAN)
system – which features five EVA systems split between
its two data centers – to support almost all of its critical
clinical and enterprise management applications. For
example, the EVA SAN supports the hospital system’s
full range of McKesson applications, including
electronic medical record, pharmacy, physician portal,
surgical management, PACS and radiology operations.
and vital for hospital information
Gwinnett uses its HP EVA storage-area network (SAN)
system – which features five EVA systems split between
its two data centers – to support almost all of its critical
clinical and enterprise management applications. For
example, the EVA SAN supports the hospital system’s
full range of McKesson applications, including
electronic medical record, pharmacy, physician portal,
surgical management, PACS and radiology operations.
“We have a small staff to manage all of our storage
resources,” Allen notes. “When we originally made the
move to a SAN environment, we compared the HP
EVA systems to everything else on the market –
including IBM, EMC, Xiotech and many others. I came
from banking and would have bought Big Blue if given
the chance, but the HP EVA was the easiest to manage
– bar none. For each expansion since then, we have
looked at all of our options and made sure that the
EVA was still the right choice. It gives us the
availability we need and the virtualization layer makes
it easy to manage. If it’s important to us, we put it on
the EVA.”
resources,” Allen notes. “When we originally made the
move to a SAN environment, we compared the HP
EVA systems to everything else on the market –
including IBM, EMC, Xiotech and many others. I came
from banking and would have bought Big Blue if given
the chance, but the HP EVA was the easiest to manage
– bar none. For each expansion since then, we have
looked at all of our options and made sure that the
EVA was still the right choice. It gives us the
availability we need and the virtualization layer makes
it easy to manage. If it’s important to us, we put it on
the EVA.”
Gwinnett recently upgraded its HP SAN fabric with HP
StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director B-series director-
class switches. The powerful 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel
switches provide robust, continuous operation with
built-in redundancy and hot-pluggable components.
“Our upgrade to HP director-class switches was
another step in our goal of 100 percent uptime,” Allen
says. “In the past, to upgrade a small switch we would
have to take the whole thing down. Now, we can
perform upgrades and failovers from one switch to
another and maintain availability across the fabric. HP
pre-sales engineers validated our design and we
implemented the switches ourselves.”
StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director B-series director-
class switches. The powerful 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel
switches provide robust, continuous operation with
built-in redundancy and hot-pluggable components.
“Our upgrade to HP director-class switches was
another step in our goal of 100 percent uptime,” Allen
says. “In the past, to upgrade a small switch we would
have to take the whole thing down. Now, we can
perform upgrades and failovers from one switch to
another and maintain availability across the fabric. HP
pre-sales engineers validated our design and we
implemented the switches ourselves.”
Clear choice for image archiving and availability
HP EVA-based SAN and HP MAS systems enable
Gwinnett to efficiently manage explosive growth in
storage demands. “Just five years ago we had about
one terabyte of total storage on the floor,” Allen notes.
“Today, we’re managing 250 TB, and we are about to
add another 40. That’s huge growth, and represents
one of our biggest technology challenges. With the HP
EVA’s virtualized storage and the MAS grid
architecture we can simply snap in new storage
whenever we need it – grow on demand. We never
have too much or too little.”
HP EVA-based SAN and HP MAS systems enable
Gwinnett to efficiently manage explosive growth in
storage demands. “Just five years ago we had about
one terabyte of total storage on the floor,” Allen notes.
“Today, we’re managing 250 TB, and we are about to
add another 40. That’s huge growth, and represents
one of our biggest technology challenges. With the HP
EVA’s virtualized storage and the MAS grid
architecture we can simply snap in new storage
whenever we need it – grow on demand. We never
have too much or too little.”
Along with painless storage growth, HP MAS provides
Gwinnett with essential image archive management
capabilities, uptime and performance. The hospital
system performs and stores more than 350,000 new
digital imaging studies annually. HP MAS gives
Gwinnett asynchronous replication of its PACS image
data between the hospital system’s two main data
centers.
Gwinnett with essential image archive management
capabilities, uptime and performance. The hospital
system performs and stores more than 350,000 new
digital imaging studies annually. HP MAS gives
Gwinnett asynchronous replication of its PACS image
data between the hospital system’s two main data
centers.
“When you start talking about things that make me
lose sleep at night, online medical data access is the
biggest concern I have,” Allen says. “We’re quickly
getting to the point where every piece of medical
information will only be available online. There will
soon be no paper records or charts. Our systems must
be built for near 100 percent uptime; nothing else will
do.”
lose sleep at night, online medical data access is the
biggest concern I have,” Allen says. “We’re quickly
getting to the point where every piece of medical
information will only be available online. There will
soon be no paper records or charts. Our systems must
be built for near 100 percent uptime; nothing else will
do.”
The hospital system recently migrated its entire
cardiology image archives – including catheterization
lab, echocardiography and vascular ultrasound – to
HP MAS. “We had been storing cardiology images on
DVDs,” Allen explains. “Our data center operators
were spending valuable time chasing DVDs, rather
than doing their proper functions. Moving the cardiac
image archiving function to HP MAS has saved us at
least one-quarter FTE (full-time equivalent person) –
time that was previously tied up mounting, moving and
storing DVDs.”
cardiology image archives – including catheterization
lab, echocardiography and vascular ultrasound – to
HP MAS. “We had been storing cardiology images on
DVDs,” Allen explains. “Our data center operators
were spending valuable time chasing DVDs, rather
than doing their proper functions. Moving the cardiac
image archiving function to HP MAS has saved us at
least one-quarter FTE (full-time equivalent person) –
time that was previously tied up mounting, moving and
storing DVDs.”
“With the HP StorageWorks EVA’s virtualized
storage and the MAS grid architecture, we can
simply snap in new storage whenever we need it –
growing on demand. We never have too much or too
little.”
storage and the MAS grid architecture, we can
simply snap in new storage whenever we need it –
growing on demand. We never have too much or too
little.”
− Rick Allen, Assistant Vice President – Information Systems,
Gwinnett Medical Center