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Seattle Children’s Hospital
“Our Cisco Unified Computing System decision is a game-changer. I can fully load the system and no one can detect a difference. It enables the hospital to fully utilize what we paid for and receive performance that exceeds our expectations.”
Jake Hughes, Chief Technical Architect
• Located in Seattle, WA
• One of top 10 children’s hospitals in United States
• Provides services in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana
• 250 beds
• 291,912 annual patient visits
• 1118 active medical staff; 4492 active employees
CUSTOMER STATS
CHALLENGE• Reduce the time needed for clinicians to access patient applications
and data
• Increase scalability to deploy up to 3000 virtual desktops without compromising application performance
• Improve service resiliency
WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Implemented Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Nexus
5000 Series Switches with support from Denali Advanced Integration, a Cisco Premier Partner.
BENEFITS• Saves medical staff at least 45 minutes per day
• Increased scalability and application performance
• Eliminated service outages
• Reduced equipment, data center, and energy costs
CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT
• Cisco UCS
• Cisco Nexus 5000
• Hitachi NAS
• Citrix Provisioning Server, XenApp, and XenDesktop software
• Supports 400 applications, up to 6000 instances