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Gujarat’s Largest Public hospital Chooses HPE SimpliVity to host its Mission‑Critical applications
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
- Human Resources
Use Cases
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research (SVPIMSR) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is a large-scale healthcare facility with 18 floors, 1500 beds, 32 operation theaters, and 139 ICUs. To ensure its smooth functioning, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) needed a reliable and secure IT infrastructure to manage its patient records, hospital ERP, users, and other applications. This infrastructure had to provide secure desktops for thousands of doctors, nurses, and administrative staff. The system had to be resilient enough to offer better uptime, have data protection capabilities to quickly recover from data loss, deliver consistent performance that would not degrade over time, and be disaster recovery-ready for future implementation.
About The Customer
The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research (SVPIMSR) is a large-scale healthcare facility located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The facility, which was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in January 2019, is the city's tallest infrastructure. It is equipped with 18 floors, 1500 beds, 32 operation theaters, and 139 ICUs. The hospital is set up by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) with the aim of offering affordable and high-quality healthcare to all. The hospital is digitally enabled and integrates every single hospital service into a single command and console center, which shows everything from energy utilization to ICUs, revenue per bed per department, pharmacy, or even the number of cases of dengue being handled.
The Solution
After detailed discussions with numerous vendors, AMC chose HPE SimpliVity as the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. HCI is the latest data center architecture that combines storage, compute, and networking into a single system. It helps reduce complexity, power and space requirements, which in turn helps improve management and saves cost since there are fewer components to manage. HPE SimpliVity was a clear choice for the IT infrastructure because it has been designed from ground-up for such hospital requirements. The platform can do inline data deduplication, optimization, and compression on all the data right at inception, which can help organizations achieve 40:1 data efficiency across all storage including backups. It’s a recoverable backup that’s an integrated part of the system. On top of that, the system has global unified management capabilities that enable IT to manage all resources and workloads centrally using familiar interfaces such as VMware vCenter®.
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