Full-Service Medical Center Can't Afford Downtime; Turns to APC to Maintain
Data Center Power, Cooling and Remote Monitoring
WEST KINGSTON, R.I., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Power
Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC), a global leader in power availability
solutions, today announced that Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) of
Portsmouth, Ohio recently deployed APC's InfraStruXure(R) architecture with
hot-aisle containment to monitor and maintain the facility's critical data
center. APC's InfraStruXure architecture with hot-aisle containment
utilizes In-Row(TM) air conditioning to deliver predictable cooling for
medium to high density applications.
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SOMC, a 232-bed regional medical center with multiple satellite clinics
and urgent care centers, employs more than 2,100 full and part time
personnel and 140 physicians and specialists. To support this significant
operation, SOMC relies upon a powerful data center to store images and
result data that is vital to patient care. To ensure that this data center
operates at its most efficient levels, with zero downtime, SOMC implemented
InfraStruXure architecture that fully integrates power, cooling, racks, and
remote data center monitoring. With InfraStruXure's components, SOMC
consolidated all its data center equipment in one location, saving itself
time and increasing reliability and efficiency, resulting in cost savings
and value addition.
"Being a regional medical center, uptime is vital for the functioning
of medical imaging services, as they are critical for emergency and
surgical processes," said Howard Stewart, RIS/PACS administrator for SOMC.
"Therefore, our data center has to operate on demand and without fail 100
percent of the time. APC's InfraStruXure architecture was the logical
choice since we could not find a comparable solution that offered a fully
integrated system with power, cooling, racks, and remote monitoring. These
capabilities save deployment time and increase reliability and efficiency,
resulting in saving and value additions. We believe we will see improved
reliability and service life of our existing systems, and the scalability
offered by this architecture fits in perfectly with our growth plans."
Offering general medical, emergency, surgical, cardiac and OB-GYN
services to the population of Southern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky, SOMC has
more than doubled its data center power and cooling requirements over the
past decade. Monitoring and maintaining a host of cooling and battery
backup units quickly became an inefficient and costly practice for the
facility, forcing it to consider a new data center solution with reliable,
redundant power and cooling capabilities. After evaluating available
systems, the facility chose APC's InfraStruXure architecture for its
fully-integrated features, including a hot-aisle containment solution with
In-Row(TM) air conditioning. A modular system that can be custom designed,
InfraStruXure enabled SOMC to install only what it required for the
present, yet easily scale to meet future demands. In addition, APC Global
Services provided SOMC with valuable turn-key services during all of the
planning and installation phases of the project.
With InfraStruXure in place at SOMC, data center servers and
configurations, storage solutions, as well as applications such as an
integrated picture archive and communications system, radiology information
system and speech recognition dictation system are all protected from power
failures and damage caused by overheating.
"Organizations that depend upon absolutely reliable data center access
need to be aware of the many ways sensitive electronic and networking
equipment can fail if not managed properly," said Peter Poulin, APC's vice
president, North America. "In the case of SOMC, long unscheduled downtime
of a data center could potentially affect patient care. By utilizing
InfraStruXure architecture, SOMC's data center operations can expect to
realize increased availability, improved adaptability, and speed of
deployment, as well as lower total cost of ownership."
About American Power Conversion
Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a
leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time
infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services for home and
corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and
performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial
equipment of all sizes. APC offers a wide variety of products for
network-critical physical infrastructure including InfraStruXure(R), its
revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical
threat management products through the company's NetBotz(R) division. These
products and services help companies increase the availability and
reliability of their IT systems. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode
Island, APC reported sales of $2 billion for the year ended December 31,
2005, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
For more information contact:
Media:
Chet Lasell, APC director, public relations-North America, 800-788-2208
ext. 2693, chet.lasell@apcc.com
Investors:
Debbie Hancock, APC investor relations director, 800-788-2208, ext.
2994, debbie.hancock@apcc.com
SOURCE American Power Conversion
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CONTACT:
Media: Chet Lasell, director, public
relations-North America, 800-788-2208 ext. 2693,
chet.lasell@apcc.com, or Investors: Debbie Hancock, investor
relations director, 800-788-2208, ext. 2994,
debbie.hancock@apcc.com, both of APC
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