Healthcare IT Optimization Solutions

A healthcare organization's small application management staff must ensure high availability and fast delivery of thousands of critical administrative and clinical applications. To meet those goals, the organization uses an integrated solution that includes F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Policy Manager (APM), managed by F5 Enterprise Manager.

Grontmij A/S is one of the world’s largest engineering consultancy groups aiming to deliver projects with minimal environmental impact and that offer long-term cost efficiency. But its sustainability business ethos applies to more than just client projects. When Grontmij A/S started to run out of storage capacity, it sought a solution that would be more sustainable and affordable than just adding extra disks. It implemented F5 ARX and achieved cost savings of £30,000 in one year.

To ensure business continuity and seamless communication among customers, partners, and employees, Sysmex must keep email systems highly available. The company employed the Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 from F5 Networks and as a result, has surpassed 99.999 percent email uptime.

Medavie Blue Cross provides health, travel, life, and disability income coverage to groups and individuals throughout Canada. It has 30.5 million customer contacts annually, with $3 billion in revenue and claims under administration. Medavie Blue Cross needed to improve the flexibility and scalability of its web application infrastructure. Using F5 solutions, the company optimized application performance and realized substantial ROI across a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure.

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

F5 ARX solutions dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses associated with managing file storage environments. Companies that have deployed ARX solutions have realized significant cost savings in several ways, including through greater use of lower cost storage with storage tiering, reduced backup media consumption from backup optimization, improved resource utilization, and simplified storage administration.

Organizations can leverage a highly versatile virtualization technology in their file storage infrastructures to enable data mobility; improve storage efficiency and reduce costs; and seamlessly integrate new technologies such as data deduplication and cloud storage.

This guide provides step by step procedures on deploying the F5 ARX with the BIG-IP WOM for tiering to remote file servers

The F5 ARX Cloud Extender deployment guide provides step by step procedures on deploying the Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX) with the ARX Cloud Extender for file based tiering to Cloud Storage Providers. Document revision 2.0.

This guide provides step by step procedures on deploying the Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX) with the NetApp StorageGRID Gateway.

Deploying the F5 ARX with NetApp Filers. Tested with ARX 5.0.1 and Network Appliance ONTap Software v7.3.1. Includes both ARX and NetApp configuration procedures.,x-default

F5 solutions create a unified, agile IT infrastructure that not only ensures maximum availability, but also optimizes applications and secures data. By taking advantage of tiered storage, cloud storage, and intelligent file virtualization, healthcare organizations can create a simplified, scalable infrastructure that meets changing demands. Hospitals see lower costs in IT infrastructure and management, while still providing a higher quality of care for their patients.

Virtualization solutions using F5 and VMware products to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce complexity.

The Economic Impact of File Virtualization | F5 Networks