Providence Health System Embraces EMC Network Attached Storage
Monday May 23, 10:00 am ET EMC's Latest NAS Capabilities Helps Consolidate Servers, Improve Management And Contain Costs
HOPKINTON, Mass., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, announced today that Providence Health System (PHS) is using EMC Celerra® network attached storage (NAS) to consolidate its HP ProLiant servers, improve disk management and reduce storage costs. PHS, a not-for-profit organization with numerous acute care hospitals, long term care facilities and low income assisted living facilities in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington, is also currently testing EMC's latest high performance Celerra NSX iSCSI and Celerra FileMover capabilities. Mack Kigada, a Providence Health System's System Engineer on the Data Storage Team said, "Our direct attached storage requirements were doubling every year due to the ever increasing deluge of application information, so we needed to consolidate nine file servers containing more than three terabytes of information. We chose EMC Celerra as a storage system that would grow with the enterprise and integrate with our existing storage platform."
Providence Health System deployed a Celerra gateway into their existing SAN utilizing an EMC Symmetrix® high-end network storage system to consolidate the storage from its nine file servers into a single, highly available, easily managed networked storage solution with enterprise-level file sharing capabilities. This NAS solution enables Providence Health System to add disk on demand to meet increasing storage needs, while providing high availability, functionality and performance.
To further reduce the cost and complexity associated with managing its environment, Providence Health System can use Celerra's new iSCSI capabilities and Celerra FileMover software. Celerra's iSCSI provides a single IP network platform to enable Providence Health System to flexibly and more cost- effectively determine the service level and type of network needed based on the changing value of information. Providence Health System is also looking at Celerra FileMover as an archive solution to help better manage its file system information. For example, the IRS requires that the accounting department keep files for seven years. Using FileMover, Providence Health System can take monthly snaps, rather than complete backups. This reduces the number of backups and saves storage space.
"Disk management can be complex," said Kigada. "With EMC Celerra network attached storage, our disk and space management issues are improved. In addition, previously we would have to figure out how much storage was needed for the coming year and then buy it all in advance. This doesn't make sense because the cost of disk is going down all the time. Now we're able to start each year with what we currently need and then grow the disks on demand." <img src=http://www.xxx-baut.de/db_assets/images/MSE_hg.gif> One big family: <img src=http://www.ariva.de/user/wkn/logopur.png> MfG bauwi |