Hewlett Packard Enterprise Delivers Hybrid Workplace Upgrades to Support COVID-19 Response at Erasmus Medical Center in the N...
November 10 2020 - 7:50AM
Business Wire
Remote workers and onsite hospital staff at one of Europe’s
largest medical centers use intelligent and secure virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) solutions from HPE for fast, flexible and
secure access to critical apps
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it is
delivering an enhanced hybrid workplace experience with its Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions for remote and onsite
hospital staff at Erasmus Medical Center (MC), one of the largest
medical centers in Europe based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The HPE
VDI solution, built on HPE Synergy for a highly secure,
software-defined composable infrastructure, and HPE Primera for
intelligent storage capabilities, enables Erasmus’ staff to gain
faster and easier access to their critical work applications.
Erasmus MC is the largest university hospital in the Netherlands
and is one of two laboratories in the country along with RIVM, the
Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment,
carrying out COVID-19 tests and critical antibody research. Of its
approximately 16,000 employees, around 5,000 are non-medical staff
and must now work from home under the country’s current COVID-19
guidelines, leading to increased IT infrastructure demand.
In order to meet the medical center’s work-from-home
requirements, HPE delivered an improved VDI environment for Erasmus
MC, which supports an increased demand for performance, and
provides the center’s employees with seamless, secure access to all
applications from home. The hospital also upgraded its IT
infrastructure to provide onsite staff with faster, more secure
access to critical data and applications from anywhere within the
hospital. With the enhanced IT environment, doctors and nurses now
have faster access to their applications to improve patient
care.
"The combination of HPE Primera and HPE Synergy enables us to
offer our employees a fast and flexible work environment, both in
the hospital and while working at home," said Erwin van den Heuvel,
ICT manager at Erasmus MC. "The HPE VDI solution helps our medical
staff receive fast access to critical applications, resulting in
shorter wait times for patients that need to meet with a doctor or
nurse. In addition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was important
to provide our non-medical staff with a robust and secure remote
working environment to carry out their important work from
home.”
An intelligent, scalable and secure infrastructure
The new VDI environment is based on HPE Synergy, a
highly-secure, software-defined, composable compute solution, and
HPE Primera, an intelligent storage platform for mission-critical
applications. These technologies deliver cloud-like agility,
extreme resiliency, and seamless scalability to support critical
workloads in an intensely demanding medical environment. HPE
Synergy and HPE Primera are also integrated with HPE InfoSight, to
deliver cloud-based AI-driven operations to monitor, predict and
prevent infrastructure problems before they occur.
The HPE VDI solution is managed via an easy-to-use interface,
HPE OneView, which provides Erasmus MC with the ability to scale up
and down the compute and storage resources separately, and
as-needed to respond to the different peaks and demands for IT
capacity from the hospital.
"Since the outbreak of COVID-19, HPE has been helping customers
worldwide to support their organizations to navigate through
various challenges from transitioning to a remote workforce to
safely returning employees back to their normal place of work,”
said Harry Verbunt, healthcare lead at HPE Netherlands. "Erasmus MC
needed an IT solution that would not only meet the increased need
for teleworking caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also be able
to meet future compute and storage demands for patient care. We are
pleased to be able to support Erasmus MC with their important
work.”
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
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