Brocade, a company specializing in networking solutions, exhibited and attended HIMSS13, a conference dedicated to the future of healthcare technology.
The conference was held in New Orleans from March 4-6. Brocade held a “Build Your Own Ethernet Fabric” demonstration during the conference, as well as a “Lunch and Learn” session on March 4 with the Singing River Health System, who has chosen Brocade for its disaster recovery operations.
Singing River Health System serves the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Events like Hurricane Katrina show how necessary it is for healthcare providers to be up and running following a disaster.
"The objectives for our uptime are pretty stringent, so we need the reliable, fast network we currently have. In addition, we were able to beat the industry standard of 15 seconds for login time by more than 50 percent, by reaching seven seconds after leveraging Brocade VCS Fabric technology. We can provide a business continuity and disaster recovery setup that has a failover time in the range of seconds," said Aaron Marsden, network and database administrator, Singing River Health System. "It's been fantastic working with Brocade and we're very pleased."
Singing River uses Brocade VDX and Brocade FCX switches, as well as a SAN solution, supporting over 2,600 employees and 300 doctors. The organization turned to Brocade after Hurricane Katrina caused limited connectivity at its two hospitals.
“Between the redundancy that the switches provide at a physical level to the performance levels that we see at the edge – on both the Ethernet and the SAN sides – we're more than happy with the performance of the Brocade solutions," said Marsden. "We live in a hurricane-prone environment, so we've designed our network infrastructure to accommodate a natural disaster recovery scenario by utilizing two separate data centers and replicating our data where appropriate. Brocade plays a significant part of that infrastructure."
Edited by
Braden Becker
