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OhioHealth Selects Cisco MDS Storage and Optical Networking Solutions to Achieve Highly Available Data, Improve Business Continuity, Increase Bandwidth, and Reduce Costs
Cisco Storage Networking Delivers New Data Center Capabilities While Protecting Existing Technology Investments
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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - May 13, 2008) - OhioHealth, one of the largest healthcare
providers in Ohio, has installed a new storage area network (SAN) and a new
optical transport platform based on Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) technology to
improve data storage and connectivity between its central business office,
two main data centers, a surgery center, and major health centers and
hospitals. The new solutions provide the high bandwidth necessary for
transporting medical images and the scalability required to support growing
data needs. Combined with EMC network storage solutions, the new data
storage solutions help to provide OhioHealth medical staff and employees
with highly available data wherever and whenever they need it. With the
broadest set of data center solutions in the industry, Cisco's Data Center
3.0 architecture provides a framework designed to create reliable, secure,
scalable, and green data centers. The Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision aims to
transform the data center into a virtualized environment providing anytime,
anywhere access to content on any device.
Based on Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors, the new SANs connect
the main data center with a secondary site, enabling synchronous data
replication between data centers, and providing OhioHealth with highly
reliable backup and disaster recovery capabilities. In addition,
OhioHealth deployed a new cost-effective optical transport system using
Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) with reconfigurable
optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology, which enables the IT
department to perform wavelength provisioning across entire networks.
Together these Cisco and EMC solutions have helped the OhioHealth IT
department to achieve lower total cost of ownership, enhanced resiliency
and greater agility.
"We evaluated different storage networking vendors to determine who
provided the highest functionality and overall interoperability and Cisco
was by far the best fit," said Jim Lowder, vice president, Technology for
OhioHealth. "In addition, the Cisco ONS solution performs like a LAN-type
connection, running at 10-Gigabits-per-second, and it was very cost
effective compared to other solutions we investigated. The end result is
our ability to efficiently manage, properly protect and quickly access
critical clinical information."
These results are representative of the benefits Cisco customers are
experiencing across the globe, and Cisco is committed to delivering
additional innovative capabilities to support customer requirements.
Planned innovations for the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
include: transparent upgrade to 8-Gigabits-per-second Fibre Channel
interfaces; high-performance, scalable, intelligent fabric applications;
and support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). FCoE offers flexible
support for unified data center fabrics while providing investment
protection for existing storage networking technology. The Cisco MDS 9513,
9509, and 9506 chassis will support these new capabilities without any
limitation or need for a major upgrade, delivering higher bandwidth per
slot and helping to ensure continued investment protection for existing
customers. Scheduled to be available in the fourth quarter of 2008, the
new 8-Gbps switching modules will be demonstrated in the Cisco booth 213 at
EMC World May 19-22 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
"It's vital to OhioHealth to invest in technology that delivers the best
overall value along with the IT capabilities we need to provide efficient,
high-quality patient care," said Lowder. "At the same time, investment
protection is a key part of controlling IT costs, so the ability to easily
upgrade to future technologies like 8-Gbps Fibre Channel and FCoE is very
important as well."
Another innovation from the Cisco MDS 9000 Family, Storage Media Encryption
(SME), provides encryption and seamless management across multi-vendor
tapes and virtual tape libraries), supporting customer requirements for
regulatory and privacy compliance by helping to ensure that confidential
information is not compromised if a storage tape or disk is lost or stolen.
By encrypting data in the network fabric, customers improve performance and
eliminate the need to manage separate standalone encryption appliances.
Cisco also worked with RSA, The Security Division of EMC, to develop a
solution combining Cisco SME with RSA® Key Manager as a centralized
solution for encryption key lifecycle management. Cisco SME is designed to
work as seamlessly as possible with existing backup applications and is now
generally available through Cisco's storage partners.
Bank Deploys Cisco SANTap and EMC RecoverPoint to Improve Business
Continuity and Disaster Recovery
In Lombard, Italy, with over 2,200 employees and 274 branch offices, the
Banca Popolare di Sondrio (BPS) is also deploying technology from Cisco and
EMC to improve its business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
BPS uses Cisco SANTap, along with EMC RecoverPoint to support the bank's
continuous data replication on remote storage devices. SANTap is an
intelligent fabric service designed to allow Cisco-based SANs to work with
third-party appliance-based storage software without compromising the
integrity, availability, and performance of the primary data path. Cisco
SANTAP enables BPS's network to instantly duplicate data sent by the
servers to the storage devices, then deliver the data to EMC RecoverPoint.
By combining Cisco SANTap and EMC RecoverPoint, this solution provides
Continuous Remote Replication (CRR)), helping the bank to replicate its
data without compromising performance, and helping it to comply with strict
government regulations. "This is an innovative Disaster Recovery concept,
in which the system intercepts the flows of data recorded on the storage
area network and guarantees the accurate writing of the information on both
the primary and the secondary sites," said Giampiero Raschetti, ICT
Architecture Manager of Banca Popolare di Sondrio.
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series represents key technology that interoperates with
and supports Cisco's broad range of data center solutions, including: the
new Nexus 7000 and 5000 platforms; application delivery networking
solutions, and Cisco ACE (application control engine) to manage application
delivery in the data center; Cisco VFrame for network-based service
orchestration; Cisco switching and routing infrastructure; and Cisco Wide
Area Applications Services (WAAS) to speed application performance across
the wide area network.
In addition to planned FCoE support for the MDS 9500 Series, Cisco is also
delivering FCoE capability today with the Nexus 5000 Series data
center-class switches, a new addition to Cisco's Data Center 3.0
architecture designed to meet stringent customer requirements for
operational continuity, transport flexibility and scalability. With the
Nexus 5000 Series, IT managers can use FCoE to consolidate traffic from
Fibre
Channel-based storage area networks, local area networks and server
clusters onto an Ethernet-based unified fabric. A unified fabric helps IT
organizations to simplify cabling infrastructure, reduce the number of
required adapters, lower costs, and reduce power consumption and carbon
footprint. EMC, a world leader in information infrastructure solutions, is
working with Cisco to qualify the Nexus 5000 as part of its infrastructure
portfolio.
"EMC and Cisco share a common vision for providing an integrated network
fabric for our Fibre Channel over Ethernet solutions," said Paul Brown,
vice president of Integration and Interoperability for EMC. "Today EMC is
working with Cisco to qualify the Cisco Nexus 5000 in our E-Lab in order to
provide customers with a complete unified fabric solution, targeting
customer deployments in 2H CY2008."
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2007 and 2008, OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit,
charitable, healthcare organization serving and supported by the community.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, it is a family of 17 hospitals, 20 health and
surgery centers, home-health providers, medical equipment and health
service suppliers throughout a 46-county area. OhioHealth hospitals in
central Ohio are Riverside Methodist Hospital, Grant Medical Center,
Doctors Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital and Dublin Methodist Hospital.
For more information, please visit our Web site at www.ohiohealth.com.
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