Construction of Smart Healthcare Private Cloud

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Preface

  • Preface
  • Solution
  • Customer Value

Preface

Big data and cloud computing are the irresistible trends in today's enterprise informatization. One of the major challenges facing enterprises in their cloud transformation is how to choose the "cloud architecture" and how to integrate it with the existing information technology architecture to achieve a smooth transition to the cloud. The "cloud" itself places greater emphasis within the industry on the unified management of information technology architecture and the characteristics of data sharing. Based on this demand, microservices, edge computing, and other services have emerged, while hyper-converged and software-defined product forms have heralded the arrival of the private cloud era. "Rapid deployment and agile delivery" have become the themes of private cloud construction.

Solution

The private cloud solution for the healthcare industry must first cater to the actual characteristics of the industry. While maintaining the precision and security of traditional business operations, it must integrate the agility and efficiency of new cloud-based business operations to achieve the best of both worlds and create a truly smart healthcare private cloud.

(1)Application Scenario

In today's healthcare environment, computers and information technology have become crucial factors in reducing costs, improving efficiency, and providing better patient care. Among them, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and HIS (Hospital Information System) are the two most important information systems in the medical sector. PACS has become an essential part of the basic technology and infrastructure of modern medical radiology, playing a vital role in clinical diagnosis, medical research, and other aspects. A Hospital Information System utilizes computer hardware and software technology, network communication technology, and other modern means to comprehensively manage the flow of people, materials, and finances in hospitals and their affiliated departments. It collects, stores, processes, extracts, transmits, summarizes, and processes data generated at various stages of medical activities to generate various types of information. This information system provides comprehensive, automated management and various services for the overall operation of the hospital.

(2)Functional Features

Easy Deployment, Effortless Cloud Migration

The private cloud solution for smart healthcare is characterized by "easy deployment and simplified operation & maintenance".

Unified Management of Multiple Media Types

MacroSAN MCloud platform supports the management of multiple storage media types. For traditional high-performance bare-metal devices, the cloud platform can directly manage physical bare-metal servers without any installed operating systems, in a similar fashion to managing cloud virtual machines. It supports power management, lifecycle management, operating system installation, network configuration, service configuration, and more. For highly reliable distributed block storage, the platform employs high-performance multi-replica technology that provides 2-6 replicas for technical assurance, supporting fault tolerance at both the storage node level and the rack level, ensuring uninterrupted business operations. For efficient local data protection, it utilizes local RAID technology, eliminating the need for cache disks, enabling JBOD pass-through access, and supporting cluster deployments with thousands of nodes, offering a mature and reliable solution.

Flexible and Comprehensive Platform Support

MacroSAN cloud platform seamlessly integrates with vCenter for effortless management and control. It offers real-time performance monitoring capabilities that enable comprehensive oversight of CPU, memory, and capacity. Cloud virtual machines ensure high availability with snapshot and migration features, guaranteeing utmost reliability. The platform supports V2V migration and is compatible with mainstream virtualization platforms like KVM and VMware, allowing for seamless migration with just a simple switch. For bare-metal management, it can be accomplished through the integration of heterogeneous servers and core business operations.

Customer Value

  • Simple Upgrade, Effortless Operation & Maintenance:

    MacroSAN private cloud platform boasts a straightforward deployment process, supporting batch operations (creation, deletion, etc.) of cloud virtual machines, while providing a list view and sliding window details. It is equipped with flexible scalability, enabling users to easily expand or shrink critical resources such as cloud virtual machines and cloud storage based on their needs. MCloud not only supports online modifications to cloud virtual machine resources like CPU and memory but also allows for dynamic adjustments to network bandwidth, disk bandwidth, and other resources associated with cloud virtual machines.

  • Proven and Reliable Solution Practices:

    MacroSAN's private cloud deployment has undergone numerous tests within the industry, boasting over 1,200 deployment cases and extensive experience with deployments exceeding 2,000+ nodes. Beyond healthcare, MacroSAN's solutions have matured and proven successful in various industries, including manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation, and more.