Ochsner Health System Relies on Storfirst

Located in Louisiana, Ochsner Health System is a medical research with more than 300 ongoing clinical trials and 200 annual publications in nation-wide medical journals.

Ochsner is one of the largest non-university based physician training centers in the country with over 500 medical residents and over 1,000 health and medical students each year. The Ochsner mission statement is to serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.

As a medical technology pioneer, Ochsner electronically links its hospitals and health centers making digital files accessible from any Ochsner location. This centralized information management allows Ochsner to deliver a consistent, reliable, and up-to-date patient care.

To strengthen this approach, Ochsner developed a plan to upgrade their existing EMC Centera used to house their PACS, Cardio, and enterprise archives to next-generation EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage.

For their previous technology refresh, Ochsner relied on Seven 10’s Storfirst to migrate their CUA managed Centera over to a Storfirst managed next-gen Centera. So for this most recent evolution, the choice was clear … Ochsner used Storfirst Gateway, Seven10’s migration + management technology as it moves critical data from Centera while also providing transparent management of next generation storage without disturbing the hospital’s workflow.

Seven10’s migration + management software:

• Offers a solution that is customer installable, minimizing the need for additional resources.
• Provides multiple layers of migration verification, guaranteeing against data loss.
• Meets compliance regulations by enforcing policies such as: encryption, file-locking, lifespan, auditing, and tiering.
• Allows customers to leverage new storage investments while transitioning the data from legacy storage transparently behind the scenes.
• Provides standard SMB/CIFS/NFS access with intelligent policy-based management for go forward archiving.
  

Seven10’s Storfirst technology is the first automated migration + management engine that makes moving from old to new storage technology graceful and inexpensive. Seven10 delivers a promise of ‘future proofing’ the storage environment for years to come as Storfirst is designed to support all EMC platforms as well as cloud and beyond. Thanks to longstanding Select Technology Connect Partnership of EMC and Seven10, industries from healthcare to financial services and from manufacturing to government have the answer to the data migration and management challenge.