United States : Homecare Homebase Counts on DataCore Storage Virtualization to Pool Storage, Ensure High Availability and Support an Entire Virtual Environment.Byline: Mamta03 DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. , business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced yet another trailblazing trail·blaz·ing adj. Suggestive of one that blazes a trail; setting out in a promising new direction; pioneering or innovative: trailblazing research; a trailblazing new technique. customer Homecare Homebase (HCHB HCHB Herbert C. Hoover Building HCHB Homecare Homebase (software solution for managing homecare agencies) ) that has met its most mission-critical business objectives through storage virtualization. With co-location sites in both the Dallas as well as Louisville metro areas, the HCHB IT team now uses DataCore to manage eight (8) terabytes at each site. There is an Active-Active architecture in place, whereby Dallas and Louisville-based customers run HCHB s hosted application and also synchronize See synchronization. their data to each site across the Internet everyday. The system that DataCore supports in terms of backend storage currently supports over 15,000 concurrent users. HCHB empowers the homecare and hospice industry to be more effective in providing healthcare to patients. Currently 4,375 office workers and over 11,000 field agents rely on applications running on HCHB s IT systems infrastructure. Everything HCHB customers do is mobile and all of the applications HCHB offers these agents in the homecare industry are both mobile and real-time. The combination of the VMware platform along with the DataCore SAN has really given us a lot of flexibility to more rapidly deploy consistent images of systems especially in the Citrix farm, explained Chris Kane, director of technical operations, Homecare Homebase. In addition, the VMware-DataCore combination has given us much improved VMotion capability where the SAN enables us to do maintenance on the host in the middle of the day, if we have to. Streamlining home care and hospice efficiency As part of the healthcare industry in general and supporting homecare and hospice specifically, HCHB s customers benefit from the company s hosted applications. They do so through two mechanisms offered by HCHB. One is the Citrix thin client space that HCHB hosts out of its Dallas and Louisville sites. The other is a Windows mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. device application called PointCare. HCHB agents and branch office users use these Citrix-powered applications to do scheduling, billing and reporting. The mobile agents that use those branch offices as their home base enter data in real-time on the mobile device, which is synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. up to HCHB s hosted synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. severs at either site. We at HCHB help our customers to provide better care for their patients, said Kane. Our customers caregivers are able to completely document their home health and hospice visits while they are caring for those patients it is all done in real-time, on-the-spot. In terms of storage, before the DataCore SAN was introduced at both HCHB locations (Dallas and Louisville), the company was using a lot of local storage scattered across many different systems. It had a couple of NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular (network attached storage) units that were in place specifically Adaptec snap units, which had been working for some time. These were synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. data between both Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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