Case Study: Leading Ohio Healthcare Network Relies On EMC Information Infrastructure To Support Information Management Best Practices For Quality Care

In continuous operation for nearly a year, OhioHealth's 35-terabyte EMC ® Symmetrix ® DMX-3 series system was deployed to improve scalability to accommodate growing volumes of patient records, and provide improved performance and capacity for tier-1 applications such as McKesson and Oracle and SQL Server databases. Currently it supports approximately 200 Windows 2000, Windows 2003, IBM AIX, and Linux hosts. EMC PowerPath ® path management software resides on nearly all of the servers connected to the EMC Symmetrix DMX ™ -3 series system and helps facilitate improved performance and applications availability.

"Most, if not all, of our mission-critical systems are on the DMX platform, particularly if they require large amounts of storage," says Palagano. "Our DMX system scales well and we can add additional disk space on the fly. System performance has also been excellent. Despite the fact that we keep increasing the number of hosts, there have been no bottlenecks."

EMC Symmetrix Optimizer, an EMC ControlCenter ® device management application, is used to automatically enhance system performance. In addition, EMC ControlCenter StorageScope &trade: and Performance Manager applications are used within this mission-critical storage environment to provide resource management monitoring and reporting capabilities.