Addressing the Top 3 Storage Challenges in Healthcare with Hanover Hospital

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Addressing the Top 3 Storage Challenges in HealthcareUsing Software-Defined Storage to Improve Uptime, Capacity and Performance


Using Software-Defined Storage (SDS) to revolutionize Healthcare IT

► Sushant Rao, Sr. Director of Product Marketing

Case Study: Hanover Hospital► Douglas Null, Supervisor of Technical Support

Live Q & A

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Agenda


Revolutionize HealthCare IT with SDS

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Sushant RaoSr. Director of Product Marketing

DataCore Software


Poll: How important is your Data?

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Data Loss• 28% have experienced data loss in the past 12 months at a cost of $807,571 per incident• And of those, 39% have experienced 5 or more incidents in the past 12 months• Most Common causes: HW failure, Loss of Power, Loss of Backup Power

Unplanned Outage• 40% have had an unplanned outage in the past 12 months at a cost of $432,000 per incident• On average, 57 hours of unplanned downtime over the past 12 months• Most Common Causes: HW failure, SW failure, data corruption

Summary• 82% say their infrastructure is not fully prepared for a DR incident• Only 27% believe they are fully prepared to ensure continuous availability of

electronic protected health information (ePHI) during outages• Only 50% are confident 100% of data can be restored per SLA• 56% would need 8 hours + to restore 100% of data

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8 of 10 Healthcare Orgs are not Prepared for Disaster Recovery (DR) Incident

* Link to ArticleSource: Health IT Outcomes, February 10, 2014

http://www.healthitoutcomes.com/doc/of-healthcare-organizations-not-prepared-for-disaster-recovery-incident-0001?sectionCode=Downloads&templateCode=Single&user=2939734&source=nl:39354&utm_source=et_6231164&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HCIT_2014-02-13&utm_term=9bd749fe-92b9-43a5-9e1f-9ca0858c3047&utm_content=8+Of+10+Health+Providers+Unprepared+For+Disaster


3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management

Software will do a few things…

1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another

Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy4

Separate advances in software from advances in hardware2

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DataCore SDS Platform is the Foundation for Responsive IT

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Healthcare Information Systems

Electronic Health Records

PACS / Radiology &

Vendor Neutral Archives

Claims Administration & Billing

Electronic Document

Management

Payroll & Human

Resource Management

Mail, Messaging &

Collaboration

Safeguard

Store

Accelerate Rapid data access

Continuous data availability

Optimal use of capacity

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One Storage Services Platformacross your entire infrastructure

10th generation product 16 Years of R&D 25,000+ deployments worldwide Independent of storage systems Works around their incompatibilities

Comprehensive Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

Continuous Data Protection

NAS/SAN (Unified Storage)

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Compelling Outcomes

75% 10x 4x 100% 90%reduction in storage

costs

performance increase

capacity utilization

reduction in storage-related

downtime

decrease in time spent on routine

storage tasks

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Poll: What is your biggest storage challenge?

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Case Study – Hanover Hospital

Douglas NullSupervisor of Technical Support

• Independent, not-for-profit community hospital in Hanover, PA– South Pennsylvania, 50 miles north of Baltimore

• Size: 1,500 staff & 100 beds across 14 buildings

• Serve: 6K patient visits, 30K ER visits, 190K outpatient visits, 600K lab tests, 90K imaging scans & 600+ births per year

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Introduction to Hanover Hospital

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Infrastructure• Data Centers: 2 connected

by dark fiber• Servers: 34 HP DL380s

– 90% vSphere, 10% Windows & Linux

• Virtual Machines: 266 • Storage: HP MSA , EMC

Clariion

Applications• Clinical

– MEDITECH EMR, Fuji PACS, middleware, etc

• Enterprise– Medisolv (BI reporting),

Citrix XenApp, Microsoft SQL & MySQL

IT Overview

1. Add capacity (quickly & cost effectively)– Several new departmental applications required to be up and

running in short amount of time– New applications required significant storage footprint not available

in incumbent system

2. Quickly scale VMs and applications3. Utilization of 2nd on-campus Datacenter

– Incumbent storage vendor (EMC) using active/passive model, which introduced downtime and required manual intervention

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Data Storage Challenges

• SAN expansion from incumbent storage vendor (EMC)• But:

– Expensive to acquire• Knew pricing as already have SAN from EMC and had expanded previously• Operational costs could be lower due to previous experience & familiarity

– Unclear if performance could scale• As more apps added, could IOPS support the load?

– Only active/passive failover• RecoverPoint appliance replication and then SRM to bring up second site• Required same storage (model, software) on both ends

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Alternatives considered

Top 3 Reasons for Selecting DataCore

EMC DataCore0

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75

100

Total Price • Quickly scale performance for VMs and applications– Use RAM for I/O acceleration– Flash wasn’t needed

• Active / active, zero touch failover and failback– Storage could be different on

both ends

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DataCorewas 90% less

• Availability– No downtime for last 4 years

• Despite storage device failures and maintenance

• Performance– 1K IOPS from SATA drives with DataCore

• Theoretical max with RAID 5 is 600 IOPS

• Capacity– 60% overprovisioned

• Delayed new capacity by 1 year, pushing purchase into next budgeting cycle

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DataCore Results

Previously with DataCore0

0.51

1.52

2.53

3.54

Time to Provision Capacity

Hours

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Operational Simplicity with DataCore

Went from 4 hoursto 5 minutes

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25

50

75

100

CAPEX Savings


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50

75

100

OPEX Savings

Cost Reductions with DataCore

90% less80 – 90%

less

• Virtualizing PBX– Moving to IP based telephony– 12 new Telephony Application servers required, virtualized to 12 VMs

• Requirements– Reliable performance as voice communication is a tier 1 application– Physical Storage and Compute footprint spanning both hospital Datacenters

• Solution– New ESX cluster utilizing Datacore SANsymphony-V virtualized storage controllers

serving internal HP Storage– Performance and Availability SLAs were met

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Bonus Challenge: Reliable Performance

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VMware Virtual SAN• Requires 3 hosts to provide HA

for 12 VMs (wasted capacity)

• Only works at single site (needed 6 hosts across 2 sites)

• Requires Flash on servers for I/O acceleration

DataCore Virtual SAN• Only requires 2 hosts (no waste)

• Active/active failover (only 2 hosts in total across 2 sites)

• Uses RAM for I/O acceleration (Flash is optional)

Comparing Virtual SANs –VMware & DataCore

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VMware Virtual SAN• Requires 3 hosts to provide HA

for 12 VMs (wasted capacity)

• Only works at single site (needed 6 hosts across 2 sites)

• Requires Flash on servers for I/O acceleration

DataCore Virtual SAN• Only requires 2 hosts (no waste)

• Active/active failover (only 2 hosts in total across 2 sites)

• Uses RAM for I/O acceleration (Flash is optional)

Comparing Virtual SANs –VMware & DataCore

DataCore Virtual SAN solution is just 50% of the cost


Poll: For your next storage refresh, what is most important?

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Sushant Rao► Sr. Dir of Product Marketing► DataCore

Douglas Null► Supervisor of Technical Support► Hanover Hospital

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Q & A


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Summary & Next Steps

75%reduction in

storage costs

10xperformance

increase

4xcapacity

utilization

100%reduction in

storage-related downtime

90%decrease in time spent on routine

storage tasks

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