HPE deploys SimpliVity 380 at leading Gujarat hospital

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its deal with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Hospital (SVPIMSR), Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
HPEHPE will supply its SimpliVity 380 for its centralized datacenter infrastructure to host their mission critical applications including the integrated Hospital Information System (iHIS), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and more.

AMC selected the HPE SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged platform to build SVPIMSR’s centralized datacenter. This solution will be implemented by HPE’s Ahmedabad-based Platinum partner Dotcad, combining x86 resources, storage, and storage networking in a single hyperconverged system with advanced functionality.

“During the evaluation process, we realized that the HPE SimpliVity 380 offered important and highly scalable features, which allows us to add more workloads in the future with minimal increase in infrastructure,” said Vijay Nehra, Commissioner, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.

Joybrata Mukherjee, director – Channel, SI, Alliances and Service Providers, HPE India, said HPE SimpliVity 380 offers multispecialty healthcare institutions the agility and economics of the cloud with the control and governance of on-premises IT.

HPE SimpliVity 380’s capabilities such as data protection, disaster recovery (DR), resiliency, deduplication, and compression, address key business requirements and provide additional opportunities for consolidation and savings.

Shaishav Singh, managing director, Dotcad, said: “HPE SimpliVity provides a robust IT infrastructure and our ability to deliver IT solutions for hospitals gave AMC the confidence to entrust us with building SVPIMSR’s centralized datacenter.”

HPE SimpliVity 380 platform at SVPIMSR manages around 500 beds and will eventually be scaled-up to handle the entire load of over 1600 beds. The hospital also plans to leverage the solution to host a remote DR site for their applications in the future.