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Case study
Erasmus Medical
Center
Industry
Healthcare
“Our storage system has to be reliable, flexible, performant and the right
price. All of these requirements are met by HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage.”
— Nico Drost, IT director, Erasmus Medical Center
Also providing services for Rotterdam Eye
Hospital and the Rijndam Rehabilitation
Center, Erasmus MC’s IT team supports
almost 13,000 PCs, has over 70,000 active
network points, more then 300 operational
databases, 1,000 physical and virtual servers
and 500 applications.
“We produce about 1TB of new data each
day,” explains Nico Drost, IT director at
Erasmus MC. “The oice applications are
only a small part of what we do. We maintain
the financial systems, personnel systems,
patient systems.
“A long time ago we only had text-based IT
so no multi-media was stored, but in the last
ten years that has changed.
“For example, we now have Genome
applications which enable us to analyse
patients’ blood specimens and chart their
DNA. This is all done as an image and
every patient record is about 1.5TB of data.
With 2,000 patients, that alone would
require 3PB of storage.”
Erasmus MC needed an overall solution
that would boost the eiciency of its IT
environment while reducing complexity,
and a vital component of that was a versatile
storage infrastructure that could scale both
up and down.
This is particularly important in the
Netherlands where it is a legal requirement
to store relevant patient data for 115 years
and there are many compliancy issues
surrounding medical data.
Solution
Flexible delivery
After going out to tender and measuring
vendors against agreed performance
requirements, Erasmus MC signed a five
year IT pay-per-use agreement with Hewlett
Packard Enterprise, covering a range of
Converged Infrastructure solutions and
services. Phase One of the architectural
build-out has replaced the previous
end-of-life HPE EVA storage with one
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 10000 storage system
and one HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7400 Storage
system with total capacity of 1PB.
The agreement includes Storage Area
Network (SAN) switching and HPE ProLiant
BL460 blade server, and HPE has also
delivered an on-site private cloud solution
with proactive support and consulting,
to provide Microsoft® email and agenda
functionality on a pay-per-use basis for
the centre’s 22,000 mailboxes.