Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY), a containerization, virtualization,
and data management solutions provider, today announced that Texas
Spine and Joint Hospital has selected the company’s HVE technology
for a complete upgrade of its server, storage, and end-user
environments through authorized reseller, Cynergy Technology.
The Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of
healthcare organizations is one of the most complex business
environments. Primarily, they face extreme challenges in three
areas: massive amounts of data, which increase with each patient
visit, federal requirements with patients’ private medical
information as well as stringent procedures for backing up data and
recovering data in disaster and emergency situations.
Increasingly, healthcare organizations are looking
for a simpler and more efficient approach to solve these IT issues
within their own data centers. As a result, organizations look for
a modern technology experience that provides better performance,
economics and ease of use, without sacrificing existing policies,
controls and security.
After assessing its environment and interviewing
its technology staff and critical end users, it was apparent that
Texas Spine and Joint Hospital needed to upgrade outdated
networking and datacenter computing platforms to improve overall
performance, reliability, and deployment of critical EMR systems
and applications. The HVE team, along with Cynergy, developed a
complete virtualization stack utilizing HVE’s next-generation
compute and storage platforms. Texas Spine and Joint Hospital chose
to invest in the HVE solution for its peerless IT service in order
to offload internal IT team pressures by deploying HVE-STAGE for
server virtualization, HVE-VAULT for back up and HVE-VDI for
desktop virtualization.
To meet the requirements for business continuity
and disaster recovery, the team proposed an HVE converged appliance
for backup, replication, and disaster recovery. With the
installation of this appliance, the hospital now has the speed and
reliability required for system restoration at all levels. Texas
Spine and Joint Hospital, as with many healthcare providers, has
mandates for compliance and security that are always under review
from internal and external entities. Providing local and remote
access to EMR applications and documents is a key part of the
hospital’s offerings to its end user community.
For VDI, HVE implemented a 50 concurrent user
appliance. This implementation allows current and visiting
physicians access to virtual desktops that are secure and compliant
with applicable regulations, and allows IT admins to update
applications on the fly while providing a secure end user platform
that can scale as needed.
The comprehensive HVE solution provides a seamless
software defined data center approach for business continuity,
disaster recovery, end-user computing, and server virtualization.
The investment in this digital transformation enables the
hospital’s IT department to focus resources on improving patient
care through innovation and the adoption of new technology while
spending less time dealing with multiple environments, redundant
systems, or providing continuous OS and application patching for
users.
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“Reliability and response are key to our very
existence. We have to be able to have minimal downtime and fast
response. With HVE’s ease of management and support from their
office and the ease of onsite administration, we have had complete
uptime with our Virtual Appliances powered by HVE,” said Gregory
Bryant, IT Director, Texas Spine and Joint Hospital.
Joseph O’Daniel, President of Virtualization and
Professional Services at Sphere 3D, stated: “Maximizing IT
infrastructure performance, availability and utilization tops the
list of the healthcare industry’s demands, and we are honored to be
selected by an organization of the caliber of Texas Spine and Joint
Hospital. By delivering a high availability, software-defined
solution to support healthcare operations, we help ensure that
critical health information systems are available on demand. The
enhanced security and central management of the HVE solution
provides additional peace of mind when dealing with mission
critical data and privacy.”
About Texas Spine and Joint
HospitalTexas Spine and Joint Hospital is an award-winning
hospital that earlier this year opened a new $27 million-dollar
state-of-the-art facility in Tyler, Texas as well as three
satellite sites that include an Outpatient Surgical Services
center, a clinic in Longview, and an Urgent Care Clinic. Having
received Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards as one of
“America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Joint Replacement Award™” and
“America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery Award™” in 2015,
2016, and 2017, Texas Spine and Joint is committed to patient care,
innovation and IT excellence within their operations.
About HVEHVE ConneXions, recently
acquired by Sphere 3D, is a fast growing technology manufacturer of
next generation storage and virtualization hardware. Its
engineering philosophy is dedicated to creating Manageable,
Scalable, Reproducible, and Predictable (MSRP) solutions based on
proven virtualization technologies running on high-performance,
next generation hardware. For more information and technical
specifications on the HVE product line, visit
www.hveconnexions.com.
About Cynergy TechnologyCynergy
Technology is a recognized regional technology leader with
expertise in the fields of Systems Design, Technology Integration,
Support Services, and End-User Training. They provide organizations
with advanced solutions engineered to the most critical information
systems specifications, providing consultation, development, design
engineering, acquisition, installation, configuration, technical
support, warranty repair, and custom training. Visit
www.cynergytech.com for more information on Cynergy Technology.
About Sphere 3DSphere 3D Corp.
(NASDAQ:ANY) delivers containerization, virtualization, and data
management solutions via hybrid cloud, cloud and on-premises
implementations through its global reseller network and
professional services organization. Sphere 3D, along with its
wholly owned subsidiaries Overland Storage, and Tandberg Data, has
a strong portfolio of brands, including HVE ConneXions and UCX
ConneXions, dedicated to helping customers achieve their IT goals.
For more information, visit www.sphere3d.com. Follow us on Twitter
@Sphere3D, @overlandstorage, and @tandbergdata.
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