St. John’s Riverside Hospital Implements SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure

SimpliVity Corp. announced that St.John’s Riverside Hospital, is leveraging SimpliVity’s transformational hyperconverged infrastructure to improve the performance, economics, resiliency and manageability of its IT infrastructure.

St. John’s legacy infrastructure had limited storage, oversubscribed servers, and slow backup software. This posed a risk to the viability of St. John’s mission-critical applications and restricted their ability to scale and grow.

After replacing its legacy IT systems with SimpliVity’s solution, the hospital:

• Increased application delivery performance of core healthcare applications by up to 50%
• Accelerated data protection, enabling backup and restore for mission-critical applications in seconds.
• Achieved data capacity savings of 76:1 through inline deduplication, compression, and optimization
• Drove operational efficiencies that increased productivity and reduced TCO
  

“Our mission-critical applications were constantly at risk with our legacy IT infrastructure. We were backing up data every eight hours and restores could take as long as 30 minutes,” said Nelson Carreira, director of servers and desktops, St. John’s. “SimpliVity gives us peace of mind. We can now backup and restore applications ins, and recover from system failures instantly. Plus we’ve improved overall system availability and extended our data retention policy from three months to two years.“

SimpliVity is a hyperconverged infrastructure provider to combine all the functionality of an entire data center stack below the hypervisor – including compute, storage, network switching, replication, backup and more – onto industry-standard x86 hardware.

St. John’s consolidated its data center footprint from five racks to two racks, reducing power, cooling and space costs, while increasing capacity. The operations team manages the entire hyperconverged infrastructure implementation from a single VMware vCenter interface.

“Siloed data center architectures aren’t optimized for today’s highly virtualized IT environments,” said Mitch Breen, senior VP, global sales, SimpliVity. “SimpliVity provides the only hyperconverged solution that assimilates all IT below the hypervisor. By consolidating a wide range of IT functions onto common hardware, with global unified management, the solution helps St. John’s eliminate expense and complexity, simplify operations, and increase business agility.“

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