Customer Stories
About
- Staff of approximately 8,000 provides specialized hospital services from two sites in Gloucestershire, UK
- Five-year strategic plan includes significant digital transformation
Challenges
- Implement an electronic patient record system that can be accessed anywhere, on any device
- Be more dynamic and efficient in deployment of IT resources
- Modernize data center platform to help the implementation of electronic patient records
- Gain the mobility, scalability, agility and availability of a hybrid cloud environment
Solution
VMware Cloud Foundation™ offered a reliable and secure hybrid cloud platform for supporting this project and the organization’s wider digital transformation. Partner LIMA Networks helped implement a solution that includes storage, networking, management and automation. The trust is now able to use IT resources more efficiently and is prepared to migrate its systems to the public cloud.
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware vSAN™
- VMware NSX® Data Center
- VMware vRealize® Suite
Impact
- Delivers anywhere access to patient records
- Monitoring capabilities save half a day in IT resources each week
- Stretch cluster allows the trust to run two highly available data centers concurrently
- Enterprise-level security protects the trust’s entire IT environment against cyberattacks
