Server architecture advancements are dramatically changing the landscape of computing. Server processor architecture is at the highest level of acceleration since the introduction of semi-conductors. Current multi-core processor technology and its exponential growth will provide platform alternatives that were not possible even a few years ago. Many healthcare organizations are finding it problematic to take full advantage of available cloud or grid computing options, but will be able to consolidate and create centralized private cloud functionality, and introduce external options when applicable.

Today's Solutions for Tomorrow's Servers

Many technology initiatives that healthcare organizations adopt, such as server consolidation, desktop virtualization, and application virtualization, highlight the need for a different approach to the design and architecture of the server environment. Our HealthDynamix team of server architects can help your organization understand key elements that will help you build a cost-effective and adaptive flexible server infrastructure. Additionally, we will help you to understand present and future technologies that will be available for your current environment – to help maximize your current investment.

Many healthcare server environments have yet to be consolidated for many reasons. Clinical vendors have hesitated to support the adoption of server virtualization since this technology may impact their hardware revenues. As a result, operational costs and stranded processing resources continue to grow creating unnecessary waste and inefficiency. Large, unconsolidated computing footprints make business continuity and disaster recovery so complex that many find increased organizational risk and decreased recovery capability simply because they cannot realistically achieve a working or affordable design. Many are also confused when discussing application virtualization and desktop virtualization and then, understanding how to build a compressive strategy and selecting the best platform technology.

Our HealthDynamix professionals can help eliminate these complexities by building an organization strategy based on your current environment’s specifications, and the evaluation of new technologies available. We will work with you to conduct server consolidation assessments, technology workshops, and education sessions to build a foundation of understanding. This leads to partnerships for future success, and responsibly helping the growth of your organization.

Healthcare providers will continue to see expansion in the numbers of clinical and non-clinical applications required to support the operations and business of providing care. Increased regulations and reform policies are creating a new wave of application providers that address inefficiencies not being addressed by current providers. These changes will continue to fuel growth for both physical and virtual server environments. With this growth comes increased complexity and labor costs to effectively manage and ensure availability of the server infrastructure. It is essential to address these issues with new server management processes and tool sets if costs and service levels are to remain manageable. For instance, many organizations find that broadening their adoption of virtualization results in the same sprawl that was present in their earlier physical server infrastructure. Improved cost control is needed as these common resources are utilized by a variety of hospital departments. In many cases, charge-back and SLA performance analysis features are missing from current management tool sets.

Better Server Management = Greater Process Efficiency

By applying the appropriate management systems to your management platform, you can address: speed of provisioning, image management, software patching, and computing co-dependencies. Once the inefficiencies that exist within your current and future environment are identified, our HealthDynamix team can work with you to implement the features that most benefit your organization.