Jupiter Medical Center Chooses HP Converged Infrastructure Including 3par StoreServ 10000

Hewlett-Packard
Development company, LP announced that Jupiter
Medical Center has deployed an HP Converged
Infrastructure to accelerate medical application delivery to improve patient
care and support growth.

Jupiter Medical Center, a community-based,
not-for-profit health center, maintains an IT infrastructure to
support electronic medical records, picture archiving and communications
systems. To remain competitive and comply with new health IT regulations, it needed a data center solution that would simplify access
to critical medical applications and information, while preparing for the
future.

After evaluating competitive offerings,
including those from EMC Corporation and Cisco Systems, Inc., Jupiter Medical Center
chose an HP Converged Infrastructure for improved reliability, scalability and
ease of management.

The new converged infrastructure includes HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, a scalable storage infrastructure; the HP BladeSystem
enclosure with HP ProLiant Generation 8 server blades for optimized performance
and power efficiency; and HP Virtual Connect technology to simplify network
management.

"As
a nonprofit in the competitive and highly regulated healthcare industry, we’re
under constant pressure to effectively deliver world-class patient care with an
increasingly smaller budget," said Stephen Meyer, director, technical
services, Jupiter Medical Center. "With
an HP Converged Infrastructure, we are faster to market, we’ve improved system
uptime as well as reliability, and we can more readily comply with government
healthcare regulations."

The 3PAR StoreServ 10000 Storage system improved system
reliability, increased performance and simplified management. Since
deploying the HP storage system, Jupiter Medical Center’s infrastructure has
not experienced any downtime. In addition to faster data retrieval and superior
ease of management compared to the center’s previous storage solution, the
nonprofit has eliminated the six-figure cost for storage maintenance by
consolidating three SANs into a single system. As a result,
Jupiter Medical Center has reduced data center floor space, as well as power
and cooling costs. Leveraging 3PAR StoreServ storage, it
can now quickly deliver to patients quality healthcare applications, such as
the McKesson Horizon
Suite of products.

To ensure consistent availability and
accessibility of essential medical records applications, Jupiter Medical Center
uses secure clinical virtual desktop images. The center’s virtualization
environment – which includes vSphere 5 and Citrix XenApp application
virtualization technology – is supported with an HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure
and HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blades. Jupiter Medical Center’s environment
now delivers 10 times the compute capacity of its previous system, (based on
Jupiter Medical Center internal data) helping to cut costs while boosting
performance.

Jupiter Medical Center also deployed the HP
Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module, which includes a network configuration that
enables the organization to select a profile for automatically adding new
blades, eliminating the need to cable and manage these systems individually.
This enables to efficiently deliver new
applications, using less power consumption.

Throughout Jupiter Medical Center’s
transition to an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Technology Services provided
consulting expertise for infrastructure design, implementation and migration
with support services. HP Technology Services also identified ways to minimize
risk and ensure systems were online as scheduled to prevent disruption to
patient care.