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, a 225-bed,non-profit facility provides more than 50 pediatric specialty services to children across a five-state region and beyond. It鈥檚 the only full-service, pediatric health care center in Nebraska, and has treated critically ill children and championed child-centered legislation, research, and education for more than seven decades. Families receive round-the-clock, life-saving care from the state鈥檚 only dedicated pediatric emergency department, Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, 聽 and Level IV Newborn ICU and Fetal Center,as well as聽 the Pediatric ICU and Cardiac ICU.聽
They鈥檝e seen significant growth in the volume of unstructured data under management, which comes from modern diagnostic and imaging equipment, electronic health records, and their picture archiving and communication system (PACS)鈥攑art of a vast file network used by onsite staff and specialists working in their 20 remote clinics. With thousands of children treated yearly, data has been a critical piece to address their needs and inform treatment plans, but it rapidly expanded in areas like neurology, and from expanding services and technology advancements. That put pressure on their storage and network, and capacity was hit or exceeded at times.聽
The facility used a Windows-based, network-attached storage (NAS) device, but it was costly, difficult to maintain, and the setup was cumbersome. Overlaid files were quickly depleting the storage capacity and they needed a dedicated storage solution to handle data-intensive use cases鈥攖he sleep and neurological studies鈥攚ith scalability and flexibility to also manage backup and disaster file recovery.聽 Eagle Technologies, a Service Partner for the hospital and 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天, recommended 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天.聽
They knew it offered NAS, but more than that, it provided software-defined storage (SDS) with many advantages. Among them, no file size limits, increased application efficiencies that support operational productivity, an improved user experience, and little-to-no storage downtime, which was costly to the hospital, providers, and children and families served.
30+ TB of sleep study, neurological data captured and backed up with 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天
Around the clock, Children鈥檚聽 conducts patient sleep studies that collect continuous video feeds and data. Previously measured at six terabytes, that data grew to more than 30 terabytes in under a year as more studies occurred. Now, the department monitors patient鈥檚 sleep patterns, epileptic episodes, and other neurological activity. Footage captured by the system must be securely retained for a year in case patient follow-up or additional physician review of data is needed, given HIPAA data storage requirements.
Struggling with the 400% increase in neurologic study data, they knew that the Windows file server couldn鈥檛 easily expand with more shares during file backups. Unfortunately, accessing older files was too slow, and if they were deleted after a year, the stubbed file had to be backed up, shifted to another folder where it was restored, and then deleted. This process bogged down storage, the network, and reduced staff productivity.聽
Stubbing files isn鈥檛 necessary with 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天. All active data sits on a 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 system that scales with increasing demands. Meanwhile, deleting old files is much faster and happens on a different 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 cluster dedicated to file backup and disaster recovery, which helps the hospital maintain small data sets. The stubbing process, which previously took an hour, but maxed out storage capacity and sometimes halted work, is completed in 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 with a few clicks. Better yet, used storage never surpasses 50%, leaving room to manage other data.
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Commvault is the backup solution for Children鈥檚. Previously, 鈥渇iles were going to a Nexsan storage array, which was basically spinning disks in a box, but it approached end of life and needed to be replaced,鈥� explained Hrdy. The hospital replaced it with a 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 system, now the backup storage target to Commvault. 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 handles all synthetic backups, including unchanged data from a file source and the incremental backups of changed data. It鈥檚 sealed to minimize how much storage is used. This process previously took up to, and sometimes more than 18 hours, and often blocked the next incremental backup.聽
Having 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 integration with Commvault, it now takes 6 hours鈥攁 66 percent time-savings for IT as they safely and confidently back up data for staff to access when needed. Since file replication and transfer consistently happens from 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 to Commvault, they also avoid huge storage spikes, keep all files and their backups protected, and maintain a steady storage capacity with room to scale.聽
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A significant differentiator, and 鈥渢he main reason we chose 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 was support,鈥� said Hrdy. With the Slack channel, assistance is accessible and easy to find, and there have been times where someone from 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 contacted the hospital to address a question or concern before they initiated outreach.
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As a next step to expand the 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 engagement, the marketing team will move its data to the same cluster that stores the sleep study data. Marketing has a significant amount of raw and edited multimedia files; some are used for internal purposes like training or hospital-wide communication, and the Child Life program captures video recordings of celebrities narrating books for patients, which are broadcast from an internal TV channel. The files are data-intensive, but patient value is unmeasured, helping children feel at ease during an uncertain time.
Learn more about the advantages of software-defined storage (SDS) from 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 and how other healthcare providers and facilities are benefitting from this approach similar to Children鈥檚 Hospital & Medical Center of Omaha.
, a non-profit facility and the only full-service,聽 pediatric health care center in Nebraska provides critical health care for children across a five-state region and beyond. With thousands of children treated yearly, and more technology advancements and industry changes impacting how they deliver services while expanding how much data must be managed, the hospital was seeking a dedicated storage solution. 一本久久综合亚洲鲁鲁五月天 was the answer, handling their data-intense use cases, and providing capacity to handle file backup and disaster recovery.聽
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