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Seattle Children’s Hospital

“Our Cisco Unified Computing System decision is a game-changer. I can fully load the system and no one can detect a difference. It enables the hospital to fully utilize what we paid for and receive performance that exceeds our expectations.”

Jake Hughes, Chief Technical Architect

• Located in Seattle, WA

• One of top 10 children’s hospitals in United States

• Provides services in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana

• 250 beds

• 291,912 annual patient visits

• 1118 active medical staff; 4492 active employees

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Reduce the time needed for clinicians to access patient applications

and data

• Increase scalability to deploy up to 3000 virtual desktops without compromising application performance

• Improve service resiliency

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Implemented Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Nexus

5000 Series Switches with support from Denali Advanced Integration, a Cisco Premier Partner.

BENEFITS• Saves medical staff at least 45 minutes per day

• Increased scalability and application performance

• Eliminated service outages

• Reduced equipment, data center, and energy costs

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS

• Cisco Nexus 5000

• Hitachi NAS

• Citrix Provisioning Server, XenApp, and XenDesktop software

• Supports 400 applications, up to 6000 instances