VBLOCK SYSTEMS TO OPTIMIZE
EHR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EPIC
ESSENTIALS
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Reduce cost and complexity,
mitigate risk, and simplify
management of your Epic IT
infrastructure
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Focus resources and IT
investment on deploying and
optimizing applications, not on
maintaining an outdated IT
infrastructure
•
Create a virtualized, resilient,
reliable, high performance
converged IT infrastructure for
your Epic EHR and other
applications
•
Deploying an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is inherently one of the most important
choices, and it is often the largest single investment a healthcare organization will ever
make. Healthcare organizations are making Epic their EHR of choice because of its
unique ability to provide a “single view” of the patient, and foundation for evidencebased-decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting. . Due to its
unique design, Epic EHR requires a carefully planned information infrastructure to
ensure proper performance and avoid risks. Epic environments place demands for
availability, performance, and security on your hospital’s existing IT infrastructure
along with the need to shift more focus and resources on managing your Epic EHR to
gain the benefits described above.
For these reasons, the Epic decision also presents an opportunity to transform IT,
beginning with an optimized EHR infrastructure that provides the high performance and
availability demanded by all of today’s mission critical applications. It’s an opportunity
to extend your virtualization initiative to include Epic and other clinical applications,
and to take a holistic and enterprise approach to protecting all of your patient
Start leveraging efficiencies and
information. Deploying Epic is also a good time to move forward in your journey to
cost savings of a virtualized,
private cloud to gain the flexibility, scalability, and cost reductions and the maximum
private cloud capable of
benefit from Epic EHR.
delivering Epic as a service
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TRANSFORM YOUR EPIC EHR ENVIRONMENT
With more Epic experience than any other vendor and deep Epic knowledge, EMC
One phone call for service of your
recommends Vblock™ Systems and Vblock Data Protection from VCE, representing the
Vblock and Data Protection
next evolution of IT, to mitigate risks associated with deploying Epic.
SIMPLIFY YOUR EPIC IT INFRASTRUCTURE
EMC® and VCE work closely with Epic to deliver lab-tested, Epic-validated solutions that
speed performance, simplify management, enhance data protection and increase
productivity. EMC understands the IT needs of the healthcare enterprise and uses our
expertise and extensive experience with Epic to help you deploy Epic with confidence.
“By 2017, nearly two thirds of all Enterprise apps infrastructure
will be package in a form of converged solution.”
Wikibon
VBLOCK SYSTEMS
Vblock Systems unleash simplicity by delivering the efficiency and business agility
of virtualization and cloud computing. Seamlessly integrating best-in-class compute,
network, and storage technologies from industry leaders Cisco, EMC, and VMware,
Vblock Systems provide dynamic pools of resources that can be intelligently
provisioned and managed to address changing demands of your Epic EHR
environment. Vblock Systems are built on a single, highly secure, standardized,
infrastructure, and then pre-integrated, tested, and further validated with EMC
offerings for deduplication, backup and recovery. Vblock Systems take the complexity
and risk out of managing the healthcare IT infrastructure allowing healthcare
organizations focus significantly more attention and resources where they belong—
VBLOCK ENABLED
HOSPITAL
on leveraging your investment in Epic.
The unprecedented scalability, configurability, five 9s—99.999%—of availability,
systems visibility, security, and data protection makes Vblock System 720 a perfect
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Delivery applications 5 times faster
choice. Vblock Data Protection and Mobility provides you a choice of safeguards,
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Reduce staff resources to support
optimized for virtualized or cloud environments. You will get highly reliable backup
by 76%
and recovery, data replication, business continuity, and workload mobility that ensure
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Reduction of 97% in number of
outages
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Cost reduction of 67% to manage
converged infrastructure
critical protection for your Epic environment and help your organization meet HIPAA
compliance requirements.
VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations VCE Vision Intelligent Operations provides
intelligent systems management of Vblock Systems, optimizing services for a
converged infrastructure and integrating directly into VMware technologies. VCE
Vision Intelligent Operations also provides an extensible API for leading management
Source: IDC White Paper, April 2012,
Case Studies of 5 VCE Customers
tools to protect investments in existing management frameworks.
EMC industry-leading storage platforms deliver the high performance and reliability
required to support the intensive I/O workloads characteristic of an Epic environment.
At the core of a large Vblock 720 System lies an EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage
platform. This powerful, trusted and smart storage solution currently supports more
Epic production environments than any other storage platform. VMAX comes with
built-in support for external servers using RSA® Data Protection Manager for the
Symmetrix VMAX D@RE (data-at-rest encryption). This includes key management
for maximum flexibility in securing data at the drive-level, both capabilities helpful
in addressing HIPAA and HITECH regulations.
VMAX provides the foundation for six 9s of high availability and resiliency that Epic
EHR environments demand. It enables direct memory access to data for optimized
I/O operations, which is an ideal design for the Epic production environment and its
80-second write cycle. Dynamic cache partitioning for VMAX allows Epic users to
prioritize I/O’s so the production database delivers a consistent performance.
“We’re more competitive because we can provision new
infrastructures right away and handle spikes in processing loads
by the states without burdening our engineers.”
Marivi Stuchinsky, Asst. Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Services, Molina Healthcare
Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) moves active data
to high-performance storage tiers and inactive data to low-cost, high-capacity storage
tiers, automatically optimizing performance in a tiered storage environment for Epic
EHR. Reducing costs, footprint and management effort, FAST VP delivers automation
and efficiency to your virtual data center to put the right data in the right place at the
right time. It also maximizes utilization of Flash Drive capacity for high IOPS
workloads and delivers single and sub-millisecond response times for “reads.”
EPIC BACKUP
EXAMPLE
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Six TB of Epic Cache fully backed
up in less than 5 hours every day
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Backup Epic every 30 minutes
for better RPO
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90.3% less Oracle backup data
Restore your Epic environment fast – Backups are important, but fast recovery
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Achieved overall deduplication
from an outage is essential. With EMC’s Backup and Recovery Solutions for Epic, full
ratio of 38:1 for Epic
backups can be recovered in just one step, no need to deal with restoring a full backup
and then dealing with subsequent incremental backups. The change block tracking
mentioned for backing up Epic works “in reverse” for file level data recovery to the
original location, to a new location, or to a “net new” virtual machine, dramatically
shrinking your time-to-recovery. EMC provides a “fully-hydrated” copy of data for quick
restore. All of these EMC replication products have been tested with Epic to support
your business continuity strategies.
Continuous Operations, Mobility, Availability – EMC VPLEX resides between your
servers and heterogeneous storage assets, making your IT infrastructure more
resilient, while complimenting Epic’s best practices for disaster recovery. Federated
Access Anywhere
TM
, available with VPLEX, enables a single copy of your data to be
shared, accessed, and relocated over distance. This allows transparent load sharing
between multiple sites, and the flexibility of relocating workloads between sites to
manage peak periods of activity. Also, in the event of a disruption at one data center,
the failed services can be restarted at the surviving site, minimizing time-to-recovery.
“By year-end 2015, 35% of total server shipped value
will be as integrated systems.”
Gartner Group
MITIGATED RISK AND PREDICTABLE RESULTS
Epic’s largest customer environments trust EMC experience, superior storage
technology, management tools, and innovative Epic lab-tested solutions to mitigate
their risk and deliver the kind of predictable results their clinicians demand. An EMC
IT Infrastructure with Vblock Data Protection delivers fast access to the information
VBLOCK ENABLED
HOSPITAL
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Delivery applications 5 times faster
•
Reduce staff resources to support
by 76%
•
Reduction of 97% in number of
outages
•
Cost reduction of 67% to manage
your clinicians need to make accurate diagnoses and care decisions, and to IT
management a clear path to cloud computing and the delivery of Epic as a service for
your hospital or health network. We have built a foundation of experience from these
successful Epic implementations and have created standardized processes and
services that deliver repeatable results.
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Reduce cost and complexity, mitigate risk, and simplify management of your
Epic IT infrastructure
•
Focus resources and IT investment on deploying and optimizing applications,
not on maintaining an outdated IT infrastructure
converged infrastructure
•
Source: IDC White Paper, April 2012, Case
Studies of 5 VCE Customers.
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Create a virtualized, resilient, reliable, high performance converged IT
infrastructure for your Epic EHR and other applications
Leverage efficiencies and cost savings of a virtualized, private cloud—
capable of delivering Epic as a service
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Shorten deployment timelines for Epic and other applications
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Deliver upgrades and updates for all Vblock components in a virtualized
environment with zero downtime
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One phone call for service of your Vblock (network, virtualization, storage)
and data protection (deduplication, backup, recovery)
CONTACT US
To learn more about how EMC
products, services, and solutions can
help solve your business and IT
challenges, contact your local
representative or authorized reseller—
or visit us at www.EMC.com .
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