EMIS IT team is confident that it has a system that works and will scale into the future. The new system allows workloads to be prioritised based on application or user demand meaning that the existing hardware is being used much more effectively, with consistent and predictable performance.
Helping EMIS Thrive EMIS’s business is all about patient care and managing patient records from cradle to grave. Life and death medical decisions are made based on healthcare providers having timely access to patient records wherever they are needed. Conversely, not having that data available can have serious consequences. The Pillar Axiom helps ensure that as more and more healthcare providers and more and more patient records come online, EMIS Web still provides a high and consistent level of service.
“We feel that this is very much a partnership relationship rather than vendor/customer relationship,” McGarry concluded. “Pillar’s Axiom has let us move into providing a cloud based service in a very cost-effective manner. With this new hosted system our users can now access the network from anywhere, any time, and all with their own unique ID and password to ensure auditing processes are tightly managed.
Ultimately, the nature of our business means that we have a lot of parties to please and if our strict service level agreements are not met our external contracts can be at risk. We had to be absolutely sure the solution we selected would work and now believe that we have the best system in place that we could have hoped for.”
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Pillar Axiom Solution
Pillar Axiom Solution 4 Dual Slammer Axiom 600s for Production Operations 1 Axiom 600 for Test and Development 1 Axiom 500 for offsite development All with fibre channel and SATA drives (currently evaluating SSD)
FalconStor IPStor appliances for replication FalconStor Virtual Tape Library for backup to disk Applications Supported
In House PCS EMIS Web Other VMware ESX (migrating to VSphere 4.0) Microsoft SQL Server Symantec NetBackup
Problems Solved High scalability of performance and scalability to address rapid growth
Predictable pricing model Adaptability to address the differing business needs of multiple applications
High utilisation and efficiency to deliver maximum value for money to customers
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