High Availability/Continuous Availability

MEDITECH hospitals have an unprecedented need for uptime. Evolving technologies that make computerization appealing to physicians and nurses increase dependence on technology and decrease tolerance for system unavailability. Indeed, unplanned downtime in hospitals has grave financial consequences and can negatively impact an institution's ability to provide quality care. The MEDITECH Solutions Group within Dell Perot Systems provides superior products and services to meet the HOC demands of healthcare organizations.

The IT environment of MEDITECH hospitals is comprised primarily of three components, all of which have an impact on IT availability: network, systems (i.e., servers and storage), and recovery facilities/capabilities. Our IT Availability Solution Suite addresses each one of these components in turn, offering people, process, and technology-oriented solutions to create end-to-end availability for our customers.

Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies, one of MEDITECH and our newest alliance partners, has created systems dedicated to maximizing uptime for over 25 years. The ftServer W series line is a fault-tolerant family of Intel(R) processor-based servers for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) server environments that prevents unplanned downtime caused by server component failure and even mitigates planned downtime.

Stratus' industry-standard fault tolerant server technology allows customers to eliminate unplanned and planned downtime 99.9997% of the time without burdening their staff and budget with the operational complexity and high costs inherent in other high-availability approaches, like clusters. MEDITECH and the MEDITECH Solutions Group feel strongly that Stratus offers a superior level of protection for mission-critical applications that cannot fail, at a reasonable total cost of ownership for the MEDITECH marketplace.