APC's InfraStruXure(R) Architecture Helps Digital Health System Ensure it is Physically Fit to Deliver Uninterrupted Patient-Car
26 Febrero 2007 - 9:26AM
PR Newswire (US)
APC Helps Sisters of Mercy Health System Standardize its Multiple
Data Center Environments and Make Essential Monitoring Easy NEW
ORLEANS, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- APC, a global leader in
power, cooling and management solutions, today announced that
Sisters of Mercy Health System (Mercy), the ninth-largest Catholic
healthcare system in the U.S., recently implemented APC's
InfraStruXure(R) architecture across eight of its fourteen
distributed data centers as part of an enterprise-wide rollout.
APC's InfraStruXure architecture fully integrates power, cooling,
racks, physical security, and remote 24x7 data center monitoring.
With InfraStruXure, Mercy was able to implement the latest data
center power and cooling infrastructure and standardize its
multiple data center environments across multiple states while
providing high availability and agility, as well as easy
scalability for future growth. Mercy plans to deploy InfraStruXure
across its six remaining data centers in the months ahead. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031003/NEAPCLOGO ) Sisters of
Mercy Health System, based in Chesterfield, Mo., operates
hospitals, physician practices, outpatient clinics, health plans,
and related health and human services in a seven-state area. They
continue to receive industry accolades for their innovative use of
information technology aimed at improving the quality of patient
care. Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) digital
imaging, prescription ordering, and electronic medical records are
only a few of the patient-facing applications either utilized or
being considered for Mercy's health facilities to improve quality,
avoid errors, and reduce the cost of care. With this increased
reliance on IT solutions for patient care, Mercy's data centers are
one of the key foundation blocks of the IT infrastructure and are
increasingly vital to supporting the applications that aid the care
givers in improving care, improving patient safety, staying
compliant with government regulations and reducing costs.
Therefore, any downtime can result in serious consequences if the
applications are not available to Mercy employees when needed. This
made proactive monitoring an essential component for Mercy during
its evaluation of data center solutions. "We needed an integrated
solution that would provide us the infrastructure and monitoring
capability to support our high availability objectives," said Bill
Hodges, director of data center operations, Sisters of Mercy Health
System. "InfraStruXure's modular architecture allows us to
proactively monitor all of our infrastructure areas including data
centers, network closets, single phase UPS units, racks, rows,
power distribution, cooling and security on a 24x7 basis. The
alternative was to integrate multiple different vendor solutions
without the guarantee of a seamless integrated solution.
InfraStruXure's fully-integrated system provides our Enterprise
Command Center with proactive alerts based on pre-determined
thresholds. This system, which uses standardized, modular
components, is the ideal solution for our fourteen data centers."
Commenting on the recent InfraStruXure installation at Mercy, Peter
Poulin, APC's vice president, North America, said, "We are thrilled
that an industry thought-leader such as Sisters of Mercy Health
System chose our InfraStruXure architecture to protect the
company's IT environment. APC has a proven track record of
providing technology for the healthcare industry, and Mercy's
enterprise roll-out of InfraStruXure's on-demand architecture shows
how this technology can help digital hospitals increase their IT
productivity while reducing the total cost of ownership." About APC
APC, a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for
real-time infrastructure, recently combined with MGE UPS SYSTEMS to
form the Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of
Schneider Electric. Founded in 1981, APC's comprehensive products
and services for home and corporate environments improve the
availability, manageability and performance of sensitive
electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all
sizes. APC offers a wide variety of products for physical
infrastructure including InfraStruXure(R), its revolutionary
architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat
management products through the company's NetBotz division. These
products and services help companies increase the availability and
reliability of their IT systems. For more information on APC or
MGE, please visit APC-MGE.com. All trademarks are the property of
their owners. For more information contact: Media: Chet Lasell, APC
director, public relations-North America, 800-788-2208 ext. 2693,
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