United Network for Organ Sharing Selects Nutanix to Power Transplant Matching Network
February 18 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Non-Profit Organization Leverages Hybrid Cloud
Environment to Ensure Always-On Availability of Life-Saving
Applications
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private cloud, hybrid and
multicloud computing, today announced that United Network for Organ
Sharing (UNOS) selected Nutanix as part of the organization’s
effort to build a scalable and resilient hybrid cloud environment.
This helps power UNOS’ mission of uniting and strengthening the
donation and transplant community to save lives.
As the non-profit organization serving as the United States’
organ transplant system under contract with the federal government,
UNOS brings together hundreds of organ donation and transplantation
professionals and thousands of volunteers to constantly improve the
system. This collaboration helps increase the number of life-saving
organ transplants each day and relies on a sophisticated technology
infrastructure, which must support always-on availability of
resource-intensive applications. Nutanix not only delivered on
UNOS’ requirements, but also better prepared them for some of the
challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the UNOS team embarked on a project to further upgrade its IT
infrastructure, they were looking to bring together the performance
and security benefits of private clouds, with the flexibility and
technology stack of public clouds. UNOS selected Nutanix
hyperconverged infrastructure to power its private cloud
environment as the best IT infrastructure that could meet the
organization’s current needs along with the ability to expand and
adapt in the future.
The team saw important gains after deploying Nutanix, marking an
approximately 30% reduction in the time required to run
data-intensive reports and analytics workloads —meaning faster
availability of information for transplant professionals. In
addition, performance improvements of similar caliber were seen in
automated tests that continuously validate organ allocation
algorithms changes.
Some of these improvements helped UNOS’ engineering teams to
quickly respond to shifting clinical needs due to COVID-19. In
addition, as the number of COVID-19 infections surged across the
U.S., transplant hospitals needed and received temporary relief for
data submission requirements through rapid UNOS technology
alterations.
“There are over 100,000 patients awaiting transplants today, and
our IT mission is to make the organ matching process as seamless,
efficient and effective as possible. Technology alone is not enough
but it’s a vital enabler as lives truly depend on our system
running 24/7,” said Alex Tulchinsky, Chief Technology Officer at
UNOS. “Nutanix has been a game changer for us, powering our hybrid
cloud environment and delivering the reliability, performance and
scalability necessary to advance our mission. Of course, it’s a
whole ecosystem of technology partners and transplant professionals
that makes all of this possible, along with all the volunteers and
organ donors nationwide.”
In addition to delivering reliability and scalability, Nutanix
also offers the performance necessary to support UNetSM – UNOS’
resource-intensive organ matching and allocation technology
platform. The match relies on complex allocation algorithms to
match donated hearts, lungs, livers, intestines, pancreata, and
kidneys to the tens of thousands of patients waiting on the list on
any given day. Virtualizing on Nutanix has resulted in
approximately 30% faster match run performance. In addition to the
matching and allocation system, UNOS continues to move more
critical workloads to Nutanix, including operational data stores,
big data analytics and data visualization systems.
“UNOS has truly been able to harness technology innovation to
support its mission and deliver a transplant system that minimizes
the time transplant professionals spend on entering and managing
data, and maximize the time spent on helping patients,” said Cheryl
Rodenfels, Healthcare Strategist at Nutanix. “Not only this, they
have been able to look at technology opportunities and find ways,
with Nutanix and other partners, to maximize their existing
resources so the UNOS team can spend more time on efforts to get
more patients transplanted.”
To learn more about UNOS and its mission, visit unos.org. For
more information about Nutanix healthcare solutions, please visit
nutanix.com/healthcare.
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in
hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible
anywhere. Organizations around the world use Nutanix software to
leverage a single platform to manage any app at any location at any
scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Learn
more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter @nutanix.
About UNOS
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit,
charitable organization that serves as the Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the federal
government. The OPTN helps create and define organ allocation and
distribution policies that make the best use of donated organs.
This process involves continuously evaluating new advances and
discoveries so policies can be adapted to best serve patients
waiting for transplants. All transplant programs and organ
procurement organizations throughout the country are OPTN members
and are obligated to follow the policies the OPTN creates for
allocating organs.
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