Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps healthcare information systems leader
boost stability and performance
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc., (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Cerner Corporation, a global health care
information technology company, has successfully leveraged Red Hat
Enterprise Linux to enhance the stability and performance of its
world-class application hosting services. Combined with a lower total
cost of ownership (TCO) and improved scalability, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux has helped Cerner meet the healthcare industry's growing demand
for IT solutions and services.
Combining clinical, financial, and administrative information management
solutions, the Cerner Millennium® suite of solutions
provides tools for managing electronic medical records, patient care,
and health information access. A substantial portion of Cerner's
clients, representing nearly 14,000 facilities and 250,000 U.S.
healthcare beds, choose to host their Millennium solutions
remotely via CernerWorks℠, Cerner's application hosting service,
meaning that uptime, reliability, and scalability are of vital
importance.
In the mid-2000s, Cerner sought to migrate the database tier of its
hosted Millennium platform from UNIX-based proprietary systems to
Linux running on x86 servers, and ultimately selected Red Hat Enterprise
Linux based on previous experience with the technology. The migration
began in earnest in 2006, with Cerner moving their database tier to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP ProLiant servers.
The database tier migration was so successful that in 2008, Cerner
elected to move the application tier of Cerner Millennium, the
most critical component of Cerner's hosted solution architecture, to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP ProLiant servers using Intel Xeon
processors. Almost immediately, Cerner began to see dramatic
improvements in the Millennium platform's stability, uptime and
performance, with the company able to tout greater than 99.9 percent
availability while substantially decreasing or outright eliminating
technology costs. Scalability of the hosting infrastructure also
improved, with Cerner now able to provision servers for new clients in a
fraction of the time versus the proprietary UNIX systems.
Supporting Quotes:
Tim Erdel, senior director, technology services, Cerner
"Going forward, we will continue to consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux as
a strong contender for new and existing platform architecture needs.
Health care is a 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year industry. It doesn't
stop on weekends or holidays. We don't have maintenance windows where we
get to take the system down. Stability is essential for us, and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux provides that."
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform Business
Unit, Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux has long been a trusted choice across
industries for creating stable, reliable and scalable IT infrastructure.
We are pleased that Cerner has elected to run their critical hosted
services with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation, providing yet
another proof point to the enterprise-readiness of our flagship
platform."
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About Cerner
Cerner's
health information technologies connect people, information, and
systems, at approximately 14,000 facilities worldwide. Recognized for
innovation, Cerner solutions assist clinicians in making care decisions
and enable organizations to manage the health of populations. The
company provides clients with a wide range of in-house services, as well
as an integrated clinical and financial system to help organizations
manage revenue. Cerner's mission is to contribute to the systemic
improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities.
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