Storage Virtualization & Replication

ATS Unifies Disparate Data Servers for Kings County Hospital Center

Challenge: Kings County Hospital Center—based in Brooklyn, New York—had limited floor space, power availability, and remote replication requirements. They had many stand alone servers with all direct attached storage.

Solution: Over 18 months, ATS architected and implemented a customized new IT architecture and design using advanced IBM technology and virtualization, including IBM Blade and System X, Dell and HP Intel server consolidation into IBM Blades and xSeries running VMware, and VIO and SAN attached to central IBM Storage.

Business benefits: Kings County Hospital was able to maximize their investment of resources, specifically server consolidation of 50 standalone systems, eliminating dedicated processors, maximizing utilization of all processors, virtualizing systems with VMware, virtualizing Storage with SVC, and allowing for remote replication for business continuity.

Performance Optimization

ATS Improves Workload and Performance for Welch's

Challenge: With their migration to new architecture, business growth, and increased demands on their IT computing infrastructure, Welch's, the leading producer of juices, jams, and jellies, decided to move from 2-node (4-way processor node) RAC clusters to 4-node RAC clusters, only to find that they could not meet their requirements since the scaling was not linear.

Solution: Over 18 months, ATS helped them switch to pSeries Oracle/RAC and pSeries virtualization for scale up and scale out architecture. ATS performed a server consolidation of their 30 DELL servers (86 CPUs) and SAN storage to (2) IBM p570 with 25 LPARs, GPFS, Oracle RAC and IBM DS6800 SAN storage for both Open and zSeries storage.

Business benefits: Welch's was able to see 2.8x through-put improvement with the workload completing in 43 minutes and a price/performance ratio of 1.9 times the cost. Some workloads experienced a 5x improvement.