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Health care facilities that use modern communication technologies to provide better care to the patients need to have a robust storage area network to make the operations run without any hitch.

 

Realizing this, JPS Health Network, a network of health care facilities based in Tarrant County, Texas, is using NetWisdom from Virtual Instruments in their main campus data center.

 

Using storage area network, a company remotely attach computer storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries and optical jukeboxes) to servers. These devices then appear as locally attached to the operating system. SAN has been adopted widely by both enterprise and small to medium sized business environments in recent years.

 

NetWisdom helps companies to proactively automate the monitoring and analysis of the affect the SAN has on application availability. This helps them avoid problems and anticipate performance and availability issues before users and application owners suffer the consequences. Prior to the NetWisdom deployment, JPS would have to wait until a problem, such as an outage or a performance issue, was reported.

 

“The unique challenges of a health care IT environment make a vendor agnostic monitoring solution an essential component in helping to predict and prevent application outages caused by the SAN or newly deployed virtualization technologies,” said Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments. “JPS Health Network is a great example of how NetWisdom can help organizations with exponential data growth control costs and maintain a high level of service.”

 

Connected to 35 application servers through a Brocade (News - Alert) fabric supporting 300 fiber channel SAN ports, JPS Health Network’ s Fort Worth datacenter has a 200+ terabyte SAN growing at over 40 percent annually.

 

Recently, the company announced the SOS (News - Alert)-4-SANs service for Global 2000 IT organizations experiencing Fibre Channel SAN availability or performance emergencies. The service is designed to offer immediate expert assistance to end-users, integrators, and SAN component vendors who require deep, vendor-neutral expertise in troubleshooting SAN problems. Virtual Instruments is unique in its ability to identify and resolve Fibre Channel SAN emergencies.