HPE E7X67A Product Data Sheet

Objective
Keep up with growing demand on IT systems and increasing need for more data storage
Approach
Find a reliable partner to provide the right services, bring the right knowledge, save costs and ensure a flexible solution to meet future needs
Case Study
Flevoziekenhuis secures storage headroom as data continues to grow
HPE Flexible Capacity enables hospital to add storage on pay-per-use basis
IT Matters
• Enables IT to keep pace with growing demand on systems and data storage without costly over provisioning
• Ensures reliable accessibility and rapid availability of data
• Allows in-house IT to focus capabilities on critical issues and strategic initiatives
Business Matters
• Reduces cost of data storage, with pay-per-use model freeing capital budgets
• Ensures storage capacity grows in line with hospital needs
• Simplifies planning around future data requirements, securing optimal patient care at all times, with means to monitor all access routes
Flevoziekenhuis is a typical modern hospital. As it strives to deliver more eective, more sophisticated treatment to patients, its data requirement has grown dramatically. HPE Flexible Capacity creates a pay-per-use model to reduce cost and provide the headroom to cope with future growth.
Challenge
Keep up with increasing amount of data
Continuous growth has always been a key challenge for Flevoziekenhuis, located at the very heart of Almere, the Netherlands. When the hospital opened its doors in 1991, this city housed some 71000 people. Almere itself had been established from scratch only 15 years earlier on the reclaimed land of the Flevoland-polder. By 1991, the city was set to grow very rapidly: in 1995, there were already well over 100000 inhabitants and today nearly 200000 people live in Almere. As a result, Flevoziekenhuis started expansion plans in 2006, tripling its size to 60000 sqm by 2010. Today, Flevoziekenhuis employs nearly 1600 people, managing 386 beds and taking care of almost 16000 patients annually.
Case study
Flevoziekenhuis
“The amount of data is growing by 10 or even 20% per year. This asks a lot
in terms of IT. If you don’t grow your IT operation fast enough, the hospital will run into trouble. HPE Flexible Capacity allows me to accommodate
storage growth more flexibly and in line with the needs of the hospital.”
– Lex Pater, ICT manager, Flevoziekenhuis
Industry
Healthcare
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“The growth of the hospital is absolutely in line with the growth of the city,” says Lex Pater, ICT manager at the Flevoziekenhuis. “The amount of data is growing by 10 or even 20% per year. This asks a lot in terms of IT. If you don’t grow your IT operation fast enough, the hospital will run into trouble.”
Both Lex Pater and Erik Bijleveld, head of automation technology at the Flevoziekenhuis, expect that the amount of data at the hospital will continue to grow: “We see increasing digitization in the hospital in general. Additionally, medical equipment such as CT scanners and MRI are becoming much more accurate. That’s good news in terms of patient care, but at the same time it is also bringing in more data per image. And as we treat more patients, we also collect more information – adding even more data.”
Healthcare regulations in the Netherlands require medical data to be stored for 15 years, sometimes even longer. In addition, data needs to remain accessible and be available very quickly at all times, as patient information has a vital role - literally - in clinical decision making. At the same time, the hospital has the goal to reduce annual operating costs of ICT.
Looking to the future, Bijleveld foresees growing responsibilities for his ICT department: “Security plays a very important part in this, just as data storage does. But how we release data is also important. The biggest future challenges for the hospital will be the increasing amount of data and the amount of access routes and solutions we provide externally.”
Solution
Pay-per-use storage
Pater: “When I started at the hospital just over seven years ago, it became pretty clear to me that a huge eort had to be made to catch up in order to handle further growth. I also decided not to solve this challenge internally, but to find help from an outside party.”
Pater started looking for a partner to provide the services he required: “I was not searching for hardware or software. I needed to build a reliable relationship with a partner that is able to really help me. I found Hewlett Packard Enterprise to be that partner.” Choosing the pay-per-use principle, provided by HPE Flexible Capacity, allows Pater to grow storage capacity more flexibly and in line with the needs of the hospital.
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