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Hanover Hospital Attains 'Always on, Always up' Availability Across Sites with DataCore's Software-Defined Storage and Virtual SANDataCore, a leader in software-defined storage, today announced that Hanover Hospital has realized continuous uptime with its high-availability software-defined storage and has significantly reduced the time and effort it takes to provision storage and systems. "The biggest benefit Hanover Hospital has experienced from adopting DataCore has been true high availability due to the automatically synchronized virtual disks that are mirror protected and presented to different applications spanning our two on-campus datacenters," stated Douglas Null, senior technical architect-MIS department, Hanover Hospital. "Each data center shares critical workloads - yet provides physical separation of storage and compute in the event of a localized data center outage. DataCore SANsymphony-V is our only storage solution and it delivers 'no touch' failover and failback operation. It delivers a fully automated process. Other vendor solutions are replicated as active/passive, need human intervention or scripts, or require other point products or special configurations to bring the passive site online." Within healthcare, IT is under enormous pressure to increase storage capacity, improve resiliency and accelerate performance - all while managing costs. (See DataCore's infographic: Healthcare IT Storage Challenges) Hanover Hospital is one of more than 1,000 healthcare customers that have trusted DataCore to virtualize its storage infrastructure - thereby making its storage software-defined. Overcoming Downtime, Data Growth and Slow Performance Hanover reports that with DataCore SANsymphony-V deployed in a synchronous mirror configuration, it has realized continuous uptime through with its high-availability storage and has significantly reduced the time it takes to provision storage and systems. According to Null, "DataCore keeps both our users and patients happier because of high systems' availability. Moreover, with DataCore we have been able to simplify management and reduce the total cost of ownership of the entire storage infrastructure." Hanover originally started a number of years back with a single DataCore installation in one data center. Over the years, the hospital added synchronous mirroring that stretched storage availability between its two on-campus data centers. DataCore SANsymphony-V now serve as a unified storage services platform across the entire multi-site infrastructure. In particular, it is relied upon extensively for various mission-critical, enterprise and clinical applications. Examples of these include the hospital's Healthcare BI reporting platforms, clinical middleware, medical dictation and transcription services, and Citrix (News - Alert) XenApp, among others. Null adds, "We get very impressive performance and bandwidth throughput for the amount of VM servers and applications we are hosting on our environment. Plus, we have improved storage utilization since we are able to over-provision storage by about sixty percent, meaning we are more efficient in our ability to meet the growth and cost demands for more capacity." Furthermore, the IT team wanted to deploy a Voice over IP (VOIP) telephony application and wanted the same "always up, always on" capability. "After doing some research, what we came up with was to deploy DataCore - but in this instance use the product in another way altogether. In this case, Hanover deployed DataCore Virtual SAN, which used virtualized storage controllers inside of a VMware ESX host," stated Null. "That solution had far fewer requirements than Virtual SAN from VMware." Hanover Hospital is an independent, not-for-profit community hospital and part of Hanover HealthCare PLUS network of services. The hospital is located in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The hospital has approximately 1,400 staff and 93 beds across 15 buildings. Hanover manages 6,000 patient visits, 30,000 ER visits, 190,000 outpatient visits, 600,000 lab tests, 90,000 imaging scans, and over 600 births. Hanover Hospital - Addressing the Top 3 Storage Challenges in Healthcare To learn more, please view our recorded webinar featuring Hanover Hospital "Addressing the Top Three Storage Challenges in Healthcare". It highlights the challenges faced by healthcare IT departments such as maintaining 24x7x365 operations, managing explosive data growth and ensuring the highest performance from critical applications. In the webinar, Hanover Hospital's Douglas Null, senior technical architect-MIS department, discusses his firsthand experience and best practices using DataCore's software-defined storage. A full case study on the deployment at Hanover Hospital is also available: Link: http://www.datacore.com/testimonials/hanover About DataCore Software DataCore is a leader in software-defined storage. The company's storage virtualization and virtual SAN solutions empower organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. Backed by 10,000 customer sites around the world, DataCore's adaptive and self-learning and healing technology takes the pain out of manual processes and helps deliver on the promise of the new software defined data center through its hardware agnostic architecture. Visit http://www.datacore.com or call (877) 780-5111 for more information. DataCore, the DataCore logo and SANsymphony are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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