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Hospital DRK Krankenhaus Chemnitz-Rabenstein Optimizes Storage Management

With PoINT Storage Manager

The hospital DRK-Krankenhaus Chemnitz-Rabenstein had implemented a two tiered HSM architecture by PoINT Storage Manager from PoINT Software & Systems GmbH.

DRK Krankenhaus Chemnitz-Rabenstein

Data can be archived in an automated manner to cost-effective secondary storage and thus expensive primary storage can be off-loaded. In addition the primary storage backup-volume could be reduced and the hospital could save cost and meet backup-windows. Furthermore the primary storage migration could be carried out transparently and without any business interruptions to a new SAS storage system.

The hospital required to archive inactive PACS data (Picture Archiving and Communication System) from the HDD system (iSCSI), the performance tier, to tape. Data should be in transparent access. Therefore the hospital had implemented a two tiered storage architecture (HSM) by PoINT Storage Manager archiving data within the Archive Tier chronologically to a 48-slot tape library. Thus capacity could be achieved at the new storage system and the primary storage could be used more efficiently.

The second task was to introduce a new primary storage (SAS storage system). Therefore a data migration was necessary. The data at the new storage system was re-built by an intelligent algorithm based on ‘Stubbing’ and afterwards it was restored selectively (e.g. all data younger than one year). Data migration was carried out in background and both users and applications could access the new SAS storage even during the migration process.

We were looking for a solution being able to cope with this complex archiving scenario. It was important for us that data was in permanent access and our colleagues were not affected within the daily work even not within the archiving nor migration process. All requirements were perfectly fulfilled by PoINT Storage Manager,” said Ulrich Wieland, IT-Manag, DRK Krankenhaus Chemnitz-Rabenstein.

The hospital DRK Krankenhaus Chemnitz-Rabenstein is in an organization institution of DRK Gemeinnützige Krankenhaus GmbH Sachsen and thus is an institution of Red Cross (Wohlfahrtsverband Rotes Kreuz). The work of its employees is geared on the principles of the Red Cross, like impartiality, independency and humanity. The hospital medicated in the last year 14,400 stationary, 1,250 partial-stationary and 9,600 emrgencies, 1,360 ambulant operations aswell as about 3,000 pre-stationary cases. With 215 beds Chemnitz-Rabenstein is a hospital of standard care focused on dermis. An efficient IT department takes care of approx. 500 PCs and about 70 virtualized server, running on a redundant IBM Corp.‘s storage.

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