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Case Study

Interim Head of IT Hospital Operator

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Successes of a New LAN and WAN Architecture in the Healthcare Sector

“Success: IT controlling and implementation of new LAN and WAN architectures with active-active redundancy, full data center redundancy, optimized license management, and proper sizing of storage infrastructure in the healthcare sector.

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Company

  • Operator of basic, standard and maximum care hospitals
  • Revenue of €335m with 4,800 employees
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Challenge

  • Disagreement in company management about the operational IT strategy (make or buy)
  • Constantly rising IT costs and no IT controlling
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Goals

  • Management of the central IT division with 20 employees and reorganization of IT services
  • Restructuring of network services incl. reorganization of the network backbone
  • Restructuring of the data centers including redundancy distribution
  • Virtualization and standardization of components
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Measures

  • Introduction of IT controlling
  • Definition of a standardized communication architecture using the HL/7 protocol
  • Broker concept to standardize the interfaces to the PACS
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Results

  • New LAN architecture with active-active redundancy of the central components and every port in the data center
  • New WAN architecture
  • Full data center redundancy for all network and server components
  • Streamlined license management and right-sizing of the storage infrastructure
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