Company profile:
Gwinnett Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare network serving Georgia's Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta. Gwinnett Health System includes 479 licensed beds, providing services at Gwinnett Medical Center, Gwinnett Women's Pavilion, Gwinnett Day Surgery, Gwinnett Extended Care Center, Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital, SummitRidge Center for Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine, and six physician group practices.
Business need:
Gwinnett Health System needed a state-of-art storage architecture to support the introduction of new best-of-breed applications, including pharmacy management, medical imaging and clinical information. Gwinnett's goals were to improve patient care and introduce new services, while at the same time help control costs and improve organizational efficiency. The required storage solution had to be highly reliable, scalable and supported 24x7.
Solution overview:
Gwinnett Health System relies on the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage-area network, HP Services and HP ProLiant servers to provide consolidated storage management for vital patient-care applications. Gwinnett Health had already standardized on ProLiant and HP-UX based servers.
The HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance provides centralized management and monitoring for the EVA and all SAN elements, simplifying management tasks and reducing costs. A single Storage Management Appliance can manage up to 16 EVA systems, enabling cost-effective storage scaling and control from a single Web-enabled interface.
Currently, the HP SAN supports seven servers and these key applications: - Horizon Meds Manager pharmacy information-management system from McKesson Corp.,which operates on both an HP rp5470 server running HP-UX and on an HP ProLiant DL380 server running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.
- DataGate (e*Gate) Enterprise Integration from SeeBeyond Technology Corp. on an HP-UX based HP rp5470 server.
- Misys Laboratory from Misys Healthcare Systems on an IBM server running AIX.
- Backup services on a Windows 2000 server running Tivoli Storage Manager software.
- A Gwinnett-developed application called CIS for viewing clinical test results.
Results/benefits: - HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array system simplifies management of a heterogeneous storage environment enabling Gwinnett to use best-of-breed applications to meet diverse patient-care needs.
- Gwinnett achieves greater staff efficiency and business agility through SAN-based storage consolidation.
- The solution increased retention of physician dictation fourfold, with minimal cost.
- Networked storage improves storage utilization, increases performance and service responsiveness, saves valuable computer-room floor space, and eliminates downtime.
- The adaptive, cost-effective HP server and storage infrastructure eliminates downtime, saves data center space, and reduces operating costs.
- 24x7 HP Services and support reduces risk and ensures rapid results.
Solution components:
Hardware:
- HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array with 2 GB-per-second Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters - configured as a SAN
- 2 - HP ProLiant DL380 servers running Horizon Meds Manager from McKesson Corp.
- 4 HP rp5470 Servers equipped with 4 PA-8600 RISC processors each
- HP L1000 servers running the HP-UX operating system
Software:- HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance enables single-point management of up to 16 HP StorageWorks EVA systems
- HP LiteTouch Web-enabled storage-management tools
- HP Insight Manager
- HP-UX operating system
- Oracle database supporting Horizon Meds Manager
HP Services:- Implementation support for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
- Ongoing 24x7 Gold technical support
In the customer's words: "With the HP StorageWorks EVA we scale on demand to support critical new applications."
Rick Allen, director of IT operations, Gwinnett Health System
"We considered SANs and arrays from all major vendors, including HP, IBM, EMC, and Hitachi," notes Gwinnett Health System's Director of IT Operations Rick Allen. "Only the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array met all our needs - including providing the scalability and storage virtualization we wanted. We had already standardized on HP ProLiant and HP-UX based servers, so HP storage made good sense, too."
Rick Allen
"HP was unique in providing all the pieces for an end-to-end solution, from handheld computers and servers to storage and services," Allen says. "Now, one phone call to HP solves almost any IT problem."
Rick Allen
"Storage is much easier to manage now with the HP StorageWorks EVA and the HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance," Allen emphasizes. "To add or reallocate locally attached storage was a major task; now it takes a mouse click."
Rick Allen
"Using direct-attached storage, we were suffering disk-related bottlenecks and poor performance for our CIS application," Allen notes. "The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array dramatically improved system performance. Other key benefits include the ease of storage growth and flexibility. We can add capacity quickly for applications like PACS - at a fraction of the cost we expected."
-Rick Allen
"The fully redundant HP StorageWorks EVA SAN provides a platform for our mission critical applications," emphasizes Allen. "It will help eliminate downtime, which in a hospital environment can have life or death consequences."
Rick Allen
"We used HP Services for the StorageWorks EVA implementation and continue to employ them for ongoing 24x7 technical support," says Allen. "HP installation services were top notch. The on-site technicians went above and beyond to get us up and running fast, making direct contact with HP engineering as needed. That really validated our decision to rely on a single vendor for our core infrastructure. HP delivered on its promise."
Rick Allen
"HP is always up front with their product plans," Allen concludes. "Their commitment to product support was a key reason we chose the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array as the platform for our SAN. I know that the EVA is one of their flagship storage systems, and HP will stand behind it for many years. You can count on their commitment."
Rick Allen
February 2003
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