Cerner is at the forefront of healthcare’s transformation from a paper-based endeavor focused on treating illness to a technology-enabled field focused on health. Cerner’s vision—and its ability to deliver industry-leading software and services—led the company to record levels of bookings and revenue in Q4 2011. Cerner is using servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and 7500 series to support its rapid growth and help its clients modernize the way they deliver care. The company’s IT leaders say Intel technologies let them offer their managed service clients the performance, reliability, and availability their critical healthcare applications require while avoiding the high cost and limited flexibility of legacy architectures.
Challenge
• Affordable availability. Cerner is committed to providing its clients with robust, highly reliable performance that makes the most of their IT budgets.
Solutions
• Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and 7500 series. Cerner deploys blades based on the Intel Xeon processor L5640 as its workhorse, with servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series for massive databases and larger implementations.
• Virtualization and clustering. Cerner runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux* and increases availability with technologies such as VMware ESX*, Red Hat Cluster Suite*, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)*, along with capabilities built into its software solutions.
Impact
• Outstanding availability. Cerner offers service-level agreements (SLAs) of 99.9 percent availability for clients on its Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series-based solutions.
• More computing, lower costs, less energy. Cerner says the new solutions deliver equivalent or higher performance at lower cost and with reduced energy consumption. Cerner remains cost-competitive and lessens its environmental impact.
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Cerner is at the forefront of healthcare’s transformation from a paper-based endeavor focused on treating illness to a technology-enabled field focused on health. Cerner’s vision—and its ability to deliver industry-leading software and services—led the company to record levels of bookings and revenue in Q4 2011. Cerner is using servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and 7500 series to support its rapid growth and help its clients modernize the way they deliver care. The company’s IT leaders say Intel technologies let them offer their managed service clients the performance, reliability, and availability their critical healthcare applications require while avoiding the high cost and limited flexibility of legacy architectures.
Challenge
• Affordable availability. Cerner is committed to providing its clients with robust, highly reliable performance that makes the most of their IT budgets.
Solutions
• Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and 7500 series. Cerner deploys blades based on the Intel Xeon processor L5640 as its workhorse, with servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series for massive databases and larger implementations.
• Virtualization and clustering. Cerner runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux* and increases availability with technologies such as VMware ESX*, Red Hat Cluster Suite*, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)*, along with capabilities built into its software solutions.
Impact
• Outstanding availability. Cerner offers service-level agreements (SLAs) of 99.9 percent availability for clients on its Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series-based solutions.
• More computing, lower costs, less energy. Cerner says the new solutions deliver equivalent or higher performance at lower cost and with reduced energy consumption. Cerner remains cost-competitive and lessens its environmental impact.
