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Provincial Healthcare Provider

High Availability Storage and IBM Power Solution

Enterprise class systems and storage implemented across 3 sites providing high availability for critical health applications.

health care providers in a hospital room

The Challenge

  • Provide a high availability/recovery environment for improved business continuity and data access for mission critical government end users
  • Provide applications with automated failover.

The Solution

  • GlassHouse Systems team architected and implemented an automated failover solution that included:
    • Enterprise Class IBM Power 9 servers with  FlashSystem Storage and Lenovo FlexSystems
    • SAN Directors, Tape Library with encryption software
    • IBM Cloud Pak for Applications and DB2

Benefits

  • Improved recovery times with automated failover across sites, enhancing business continuity posture and timely access to data for all their mission critical applications.
  • Enabled the customer to leverage Openshift through containerizing their DB2 applications by using the IBM Advanced Enterprise Edition extension for Cloud Pak.
Close up of a senior woman and her daughter having a doctors appointment

" Our partnership continues to realize enormous value to the ministry. "

- IT DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT