Proact Chosen by Sint Franciscus Hospital in Rotterdam

Proact supplies enterprise storage to the Sint Franciscus Gasthuis in Rotterdam.

The Sint Franciscus Gasthuis is a major hospital with a rich
history and offers care covering a wide range of specialisms. As a team its 100
medical specialists and 2,000 staff aim to respond positively to the needs of
the patient, with high-quality care and a service-oriented attitude.

Given increasing
digitisation and the corresponding growth in data the availability of its IT
infrastructure is crucial. With the enterprise storage systems, the Sint
Franciscus Gasthuis has ensured for itself maximum availability and security,
as well as flexibility to deal effectively with changes or situations both
positive (growth) and negative (fire, water damage).

Lucas den Os, Managing Director Proact Benelux, says: "Since
our start in 2008 we have welcomed a variety of organisations within the
healthcare industry as our clients in the Benelux. We are very pleased now
to be able to count the Sint Franciscus hospital as one of our clients as well.
This demonstrates Proact’s increased foothold and focus on innovation in the
healthcare sector."

The solution supplied by Proact consists of two
redundant storage systems. As well as high performance the solution also
offers availability of data using snapshot technology and
synchronous mirroring to the second location. This cross replication means that
the storage systems provide fallback for each other. This is a way to realise a complete fallback environment for Sint Franciscus Gasthuis.
The storage systems are also equipped with four storage controllers per system
and the thin provisioning technology. The
solution is simple to manage and ensures that the number of manual actions
in the area of backup and recovery are reduced.

Peter de Boer, automation team manager at Sint Franciscus
Gasthuis, says: "Owing to the strong growth in recent years and in order to
grow with the ever-increasing digitisation in health care, there was a need for
a new storage solution. The Sint Franciscus Gasthuis was looking for a storage
platform with maximum flexibility, very high availability at a competitive
price. We have found that the higher availability and faster-working storage
solution of this renovated storage infrastructure facilitate us offering good
patient care."

Proact is supplying the total solution including 24/7
support for hardware and software.