We have looked at a lot of different technologies. The capabilities of DataCore’s software-defined storage offering not only align with our uncompromising standards but allow us to continue to deliver patient care seamlessly without interruption, which is critical to our mission.
Because we are a small IT staff, we wear a lot of hats—and we get pulled in a lot of directions. As a result, DataCore’s simplicity of management and ease-of-use is just as important to us as its cost-effectiveness and overall performance. When our team is called on to handle IT for multiple facilities, we can put whatever systems the newly acquired hospitals have under our existing infrastructure—because we have a software-defined infrastructure that will support this growth.
High availability was the first and foremost reason for going with DataCore—and for continuing with it. Now, everything that is mission-critical to the running of the hospital is supported by the DataCore software-defined storage platform. Users not only receive faster access to data, but they benefit from more server capacity as well.
Key Challenges for Hospital IT Departments
Meeting the Need for Real-Time, 24/7 Data Accessibility
How DataCore can help your hospital:
- DataCore’s software-defined storage platform offers hospitals the possibility to reduce disruptions and achieve zero downtime, with zero RPO and zero RTO with various deployment models for business continuity and high availability including mirroring and replication.
- DataCore’s platform is scalable—hospitals purchase just once and use it forever. Even if hardware changes, DataCore simplifies adopting new technology seamlessly, such as NVMe, and eliminates the manual work required to migrate data.
- DataCore’s platform enables a hospitals with the fastest response time, by using patented technology that reduces bottlenecks and parallelizes I/O, resulting in significant performance improvements for existing systems, and maximum throughput for newer ones.
Managing and Consolidating Data from Disparate Legacy Systems
How DataCore can help your hospital:
- DataCore’s software-defined storage solution provides a virtualized pool that abstracts storage infrastructure from disparate vendors and technologies into one common set of enterprise-wide services with one management interface.
- Following a merger or acquisition, the vendor-agnostic DataCore platform gathers a hospital system’s collective resources, managing them centrally and uniformly despite potential differences. This includes incompatibilities among manufacturers, legacy models and generations of equipment in use.
- Dynamic auto-tiering at the sub-LUN level ensures the applications that require faster performance always have access to the faster hardware, without the need for migrations or human intervention.
Future-Proofing the Hospital Against Natural Disasters or Cyber Attacks
How DataCore can help your hospital:
- Zero-touch, zero downtime means that your hospital data is always available. There is no need for manual processes to restore data from a backup copy or a disaster recovery site. Storage failures are handled automatically, without any downtime, as is failback.
- DataCore’s synchronous mirroring capability enable virtually zero RTO and zero RPO. For disaster recoveries, asynchronous replication scheme assures another copy of the hospital’s data is available hundreds of miles away.
- To protect against Ransomware or other attacks, Continuous Data Protection works like a time machine, giving your team the ability to restore to any point in time, seconds before an attack, minimizing business impact.
Cost Savings & Planning Around the Healthcare Data Tsunami
How DataCore can help your hospital:
- DataCore allows for the unified management of heterogeneous storage systems, which greatly improves productivity. New storage requests can be provisioned from a software console, removing the need to manage and plan capacity at the array level.
- Once you have DataCore’s SDS solution in place, your team won’t have to spend time migrating data when a new array is added or when and old one is decommissioned. The system will optimize applications dynamically to make use of the best performing storage available automatically.
- Thin provisioning and other patented technologies improve the efficiency of storage systems, resulting in the dramatic reduction in investment requirements. With DataCore, lower-cost storage arrays can be deployed efficiently, delivering performance and data services that may be comparable to much more expensive systems.
Resources: How to Address Your Healthcare Data Storage Challenges
Learn how DataCore can help your team address your healthcare organization’s most pressing storage challenges and how we deliver on our technical promises.
DataCore Healthcare Technology Solutions
A Proven Solution for Overcoming Hospital IT’s Most Pressing Storage Demands
DataCore’s software-defined storage solution provides hospitals with uninterrupted data access, massive architectural scale-out and game-changing application performance.
DataCore’s software-defined storage helps healthcare organizations address these challenges by forming a transparent virtualization layer across diverse storage systems to maximize the availability, scalability and performance of all storage resources.
DataCore’s hyperconverged storage solution allows hospitals to seamlessly consolidate their virtualized infrastructure.
DataCore's solutions empower IT teams to:
Safeguard
- Continuous Availability of Data
- ディザスタリカバリ
- Remote Replication and Synchronous Mirroring
Store
- Reclaim Unused Storage
- Improve Data Access
- Allow for Hardware Independence
迅速
- Improve Response Times
- Faster Migration and Provisioning
- Accelerate Storage Bottlenecked Applications
Improve Critical Applications
- Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
- Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Vendor-Neutral Archive (VNA)
- Claims Administration and Billing
- Human Resource Management and Payroll
- Electronic Document Management
- Mail, Messaging and Collaboration
- Inpatient
- Ambulatory
- Pharmacy
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Laboratory
And future data sources, including:
- Patient Reported Data
- Patient Driven Communications
DataCore Healthcare Results
FASTER APPLICATIONS
5X IMMEDIATE BOOST IN PERFORMANCEHIGHER AVAILABILITY
100% REDUCED STORAGE-RELATED DOWNTIMELOWER TCO
50% DECREASE IN STORAGE COSTS