Demands on IT infrastructure and equipment

are changing rapidly. How are you going to

manage to keep up?

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Growing demands on healthcare IT infrastructure are pushing current tools
and processes to their limit.
Data Center Challenges
New solutions are being deployed in order to
deliver improved patient experiences and outcomes
resulting in greater capacity and routing needs.
Existing solutions are being phased out,
replaced or migrated requiring time and money.
Modern IT Challenges
Heavy investment in central and local IT
infrastructure is driven by rapid growth of
healthcare data.
As an organization’s network expands
to include distributed sites, security
challenges are introduced.
Dynamically changing environments across
both DC and distributed IT introduce
challenges managing equipment and
maximizing its lifespan.
Managing multiple vendors, management
systems, thresholds, policies, etc. is time
consuming and often confusing.
Current manual asset and capacity management
processes cannot support these changes. They
are hard to use, hard to maintain, and error-prone.
Budget constraints require IT managers do more
with less and maximize available resources, while
keeping cybersecurity as a top priority.
Distributed
Environment Challenges
Network closet upgrades required to support
new vital applications (e.g., electronic medical
records, digital imaging, telehealth).
Failing edge devices results in service
delivery disruptions (e.g., patient room
experience, nursing stations).
Edge devices are often vulnerable to physical
elements such as human intervention, overload,
powering on/off and security breaches.
Success in IT requires an approach to anticipate and adapt to change.

Leading healthcare IT management teams have transformed how they manage

their critical infrastructure, making at least 4 significant shifts in their Data Center
and Distributed IT environments...

The most progressive The most progressive

FROM TO
Data Center management teams: Distributed IT management teams:

Enjoy one single source of truth for
accurate inventory of data center
Manual 1 Automated
assets and automated change and
capacity management.
Possess a consolidated view of all their
assets in their network closets, from the
plug down into key performance data of
each individual UPS and PDU. 

Make asset provisioning decisions Are able to manage their distributed IT

confidently, based on accurate space, environments proactively, armed with
“Plug & Pray” 2 Visibility
cooling, and power capacity data with insight that predicts when equipment is
precision. likely to fail.

Working under Being able to Fund needed modernization initiatives Prioritize investments in power & cooling
inescapable forecast & build with quantifiable energy efficiency and equipment based on health and likelihood
3
budget business cases for data center optimization savings in of failure, minimizing unplanned downtime
constraints future investments ways that are budget-neutral. and budget surprises.

Unknown critical Identified

Know that their network ops team could Have visibility into old firmware, outdated
infrastructure threats
4 be responsible for their next data center hardware, and vulnerable configurations
security and peace
breach and work together accordingly. and handle security risks proactively.
vulnerability of mind

Leading healthcare IT management teams do not to look at data centers

and network closets as separate responsibilities, but as a single system with a
shared purpose and outcome. This approach is saving them time and money.

Save 40 percent with a From a power and energy perspective, we expect to

Proactive Approach to save between 5% and 10% over the first two years in
Single-Phase Smart-UPS the data center itself.
Battery Management ­— Simon Binley, Data Centre Manager, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Having one solution that can combine infrastructure and IT management, as opposed to having multiple
individual solutions, was a no-brainer. We also were looking for a useable solution for all of our IT needs. We
needed a centralized solution that provided a complete picture view.

­— David Plamondon, Data Center Operations Architect, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Schneider Electric is an expert in managing the biggest shared challenges,
giving you overall peace of mind whatever your IT responsibilities are.

EcoStruxure™ IT Advisor Shared challenges EcoStruxure™ IT Expert

provides: addressed by mastering provides:
Asset management for complete both responsibilities with Complete overview of your
and accurate data center assets EcoStruxure™ IT distributed IT assets.
inventory data.
Visibility • Security Assessments on your critical
Automated change and
assets, including UPS health
capacity management for Interdependence
security vulnerabilities checks
optimized, intelligent planning.
Lifecycle management of assets to optimize your infrastructure
Analytics for smarter decision-making. and reduce the risk of a
Prioritizing component replacement
Risk planning for proactive security breach.
incident management. Maximizing shared budget

Works with what you have Complete your solution with

Maximize your ITA investment Easy to deploy • CSM-supported NetBotz Environmental
with Advanced Custom Services Sensing & Security

With Schneider’s EcoStruxure IT DCIM solution,
we are able to ensure H-Cloud data center’s
resiliency, allowing us to deliver optimal patient
care experience, achieve energy efficiency
and reduce power consumption.
— Francis Fan, Group Director, IHIS
Any improvement in PUE and energy efficiency automatically
reduces electrical spend and allows us to repurpose
investment into other areas. That means more equipment, more
scientists, and more benefit to humanity, which is the primary
focus for the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
— Simon Binley, Data Centre Manager, Wellcome Sanger Institute

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