HiberniaEvros helps hospital plan for the future
St Vincent's University Hospital is a major academic teachning hospital that provides front line emergency service and national/regional medical care at inpatient and outpatient level. The hospital provides more than 40 medical specialties ranging from clinical training, primary care treatment, and therapeutic services to laboratory services and medical research.
Client Requirement
HiberniaEvros was asked to deliver a project that improved efficiency and IT service capabilities while maintaining an infrastructure that was robust, highly available, and adaptive to the changing business requirements of the hospital.
As a result, the project saw the centralising of core IT processes and the introduction of capabilities to facilitate data compliance and resilience. This also provided a solid foundation needed to support a number of future planned informatics projects directly concerned with patient treatment.
Solution Implemented
HiberniaEvros installed a state of the art HP server infrastructure. It comprised;
- HP Bladesystem together with Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) Storage Array
- 1x HP C7000 Blade enclosure in production data centre
- 1x HP C7000 Blade enclosure in DR
- Cisco Catalyst Blade Switches integrated in Blade enclosures to connect to core network
- Brocade SAN Switches to connect to existing SAN fabrics
- HP Insight Control Data Centre Edition as management platform
- HP Storageworks EVA6000 Storage Array with 10TB of fibre channel disk storage
- Microsoft Stretch Clusters installed in Blade Enclosures for storage including one for main hospital file storage
Benefits to St Vincent's
- Increased Efficiency
- Improved ICT Services
- Improved monitoring and management ability
"We have worked with Hibernia Evros on other enterprise solutions and have found their responsiveness, technical knowledge and approachability to be excellent. As part of our back end consolidation project, this solution has provided a platform for our high end applications. The HiberniaEvros level of commitment on this project reduced its complexity and eased in its deployment."
Neal Mullen, Deputy Director of ICT, St Vincent's University Hospital