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Ensuring System Availability For Mission Critical Applications

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 Ensuring System Availability For Mission Critical Applications - IoT ONE Case Study
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery
Applicable Industries
  • Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
Use Cases
  • Cybersecurity
The Customer
Day Kimball Hospital
About The Customer
Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, Connecticut, is a premier provider of integrated healthcare services in northeast Connecticut. Serving the region for more than 120 years, the hospital offers acute and general medical and surgical care, including a 24-hour
The Challenge

Among the many challenges that Day Kimball Hospital faced included difficulties in performing maintenance on their applications, system hardware and completing backups within an acceptable backup window. It was a challenge to find the downtime necessary to upgrade their firmware.

The Solution

After careful evaluation of Day Kimball's environment and specific requirements, Innovative designed a High-Availability Disaster Recovery solution involving a second IBM Power System and Vision Solutions Application Level Mirroring software. The Vision Solutions Software was tuned to take advantage of newer features that will help Day Kimball maintain a role-swap ready state, allowing switching applications from the source to the target system.

Data Collected
Backup, Downtime, Operation Performance
Operational Impact
  • [Efficiency Improvement - IT]
    Day Kimball now has the most robust business continuity solution, allowing rapid role-swap between production and target systems, enabling IT staff to perform periodic role-swap test and system and application maintenance.
Quantitative Benefit
  • The hospital has upgraded their Power Systems technology 4-5 times over the last 18 years and uses this solution for all migrations, and conversions to new technology seamlessly with no disruption in operations.

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