Xindu District People’s Hospital Opts for Infortrend

Infortrend Technology, Inc. enabled Chinese National Hospital with EonStor GS 3000 SAN/NAS unified storage solution with HDD/SSD hybrid configuration as a foundation for building a Hospital Information System (HIS).

Chinese Xindu District People’s Hospital was built in 1927 and has developed into a national tertiary-level B general hospital, becoming the first county-level hospital in the province. By 2020, the number of hospital visits had reached 730,000, and the hospital’s HIS data volume continued to increase. The original storage architecture was unable to support smooth HIS operation in terms of performance and capacity, it also lacked an effective data allocation mechanism, causing bottlenecks, which in turn affected the efficiency of doctors’ diagnosis and analysis. 

EonStor GS 3000 unified storage with block-level performance solved this problem. It supports SSD/HDD hybrid configuration to create a tiered storage architecture, providing cost-performance ratio, important for budget-saving applications. The solution supports 14 SSDs, The technology to prolong SSD lifespan, 32Gb FC, and expansion enclosure with 22 HDDs. With block-level performance 900,000 IO/s and 11,000/6,000 Mb/s, it makes possible processing of multiple hospital registrations and virtual desktops. GS 3000 guarantees fast operation of the current HIS, and also provides a basis for building a file-level medical platform with R/W performance of 8,300/3,800 Mb/s.  

“GS 3000 hybrid storage is very attractive for hospitals, as it reasonably allocates data on appropriate tiers and saves costs. High-speed SSDs store frequently accessed data, for example, that of critically ill patients to allow medical staff from different departments simultaneously access it and conduct timely consultations. On the other hand, large-capacity HDDs are suitable for archiving of electronic medical records/images,” said Frank Lee, senior director of product planning.

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