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St. John’s Riverside Hospital gains flexibility through HPE SimpliVity

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • HPE SimpliVity
Tech Stack
  • VMware vCenter
  • Hyperconverged infrastructure
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Process Control & Optimization
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
St. John’s Riverside Hospital has been a healthcare provider to the residents of the City of Yonkers and southern Westchester County in Greater New York City for almost 150 years. With a staff of 422 registered nurses that serves over 100,000 patient visits per year, St. John’s Riverside must ensure that its state-of-the-art medical technology always delivers outstanding and consistent service. A dedicated IT staff of 17 manages all of St. John’s mission-critical applications that range from the enterprise-standard Microsoft Office Suite, Citrix XenApp, MS Exchange, SFTP file server, Kronos, and Forward Advantage’s FormFast to health industry-specific applications such as SOS that provides electronic records for their nursing home, Pyxis, a medication inventory tracker, and McKesson PACS System that houses images for their radiology unit.
The Challenge
St. John’s Riverside Hospital had been running their existing infrastructure environment for seven years, and the time had come for them to expand and update their technology. A multitude of issues came to a head, the most urgent being that their 40TB storage systems were quickly running out of physical space loads, restricting their ability to scale and grow. Their legacy servers were also oversubscribed to the point that failover was completely prohibited, leaving St. John’s Riverside Hospital in a compromised and unacceptable state if the system should ever crash. With so many mission-critical applications running in their virtualized environment, data protection and speedy data backup are essential to the well being of St. John’s Riverside and their patients. Using legacy backup software for their D2D backup as well as for an offsite location five miles away, St. John’s was seeing RPOs of eight to ten hours with a three-month retention and, depending on the data, RTOs could take five to ten minutes for files, with full servers taking up to 30 minutes. These backup times were unfavorable for St. John’s, who prides itself on continually improving efficiency and speed.
The Solution
Nelson Carreira, director of servers and desktops at St. John’s, needed a new solution. With an infrastructure update due for their legacy systems, Carreira also evaluated NetApp, Dell Compellent, and EMC SAN storage. What sold Carreira on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) SimpliVity, though, was its ease of management from a single tab on VMware’s vCenter—the single pane of glass truly simplified St. John’s IT environment that had, up until that point, been divided by siloed point solutions. Along with the simplified management brought by HPE SimpliVity, St. John’s IT team also experienced its ease of installation— migrating data to HPE SimpliVity was quick and painless. “The implementation took a day and a half, which is awesome, and then by the end of the second day, we already had a couple servers on the HPE SimpliVity systems,” said Carreira. “It took us under two weeks to move everything on over.”
Operational Impact
  • Single pool of shared x86 resources that seamlessly combines all IT/services “below the hypervisor”
  • Global Unified management and single pane of glass management via VMware vCenter integration
  • Unsurpassed agility from modular, 2U building blocks
  • Inline deduplication, compression, and optimization
  • Hyperconverged infrastructure yielding reduced costs to enable “cloud economics.
Quantitative Benefit
  • 50% performance increase
  • 46:1 data efficiency after two months and 106:1 after six months
  • Reduced rack space from five RU down to two RU
  • 312TB IO and capacity savings after two months

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