About Wanon Niwat Hospital
Wanon Niwat Hospital, located in the Sakon Nakhon Province of Thailand, is a community hospital overseen by the province’s Public Health Office. The hospital is committed to providing exceptional healthcare services by integrating modern technology to become a smart hospital. This initiative aims to enhance management efficiency, streamline operations, save time, and improve the patient service experience.
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IT Infrastructure Challenges
- Scalability Issues: The influx of patients demanded a more scalable solution than their existing physical servers could offer.
- Management Complexity: Managing individual physical servers was cumbersome, involving configuration, procurement, and ongoing maintenance.
- Performance Bottlenecks: Slow response times, especially during peak hours, affected the user experience of both doctors and patients.
Requirements
Wanon Niwat Hospital sought a solution that addressed their critical needs:
- Simplified Infrastructure Management: The solution must provide a unified management platform with a user-friendly interface to simplify administration and eliminate the need to manage multiple physical servers.
- Scales Effortlessly: Seamlessly accommodates growth in data and applications without complex infrastructure upgrades.
- Data Security: The new infrastructure should offer built-in security features to protect sensitive patient data.
- Cost-Effective Solution: The solution should address cost management concerns.
Sangfor Solution for Wanon Niwat Hospital
To meet these requirements, Wanon Niwat Hospital implemented Sangfor HCI as their new data center infrastructure, deployed with Sangfor Endpoint Secure for added protection.
- Sangfor HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution that virtualizes and integrates data center compute, storage, networking, and security into a unified software stack. This convergence greatly simplifies data center management, enhances performance and reliability, and increases cost-effectiveness.
- Sangfor Endpoint Secure is a modern Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) that combines antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and endpoint management capabilities into a single solution. It uses advanced AI technologies to accurately detect and respond to cyber threats in real time.
Benefits of Sangfor HCI
- Enhanced System Performance: Transitioning to Sangfor HCI has markedly improved the system's performance. The hospital has experienced fewer complaints and smoother operations, even during peak hours.
- Simplified Management: The Sangfor Cloud Platform (SCP) centralizes the management of virtual machines (VMs), storage, network, and security across the cluster. Administrators can now easily configure resources and policies, monitor system health, and resolve issues in one location. Thanks to a user-friendly interface and easy scaling, management has become easier than ever before.
- Robust Security: By deploying Endpoint Secure on Sangfor HCI, the hospital benefits from robust data protection from security threats like ransomware. Moreover, Sangfor HCI is built-in with various security features, including a distributed firewall. This protects and isolates individual VMs to prevent threats from spreading. With these security measures, the hospital ensures utmost data integrity and protection against cyber threats.
- Efficient Data Backup: Sangfor HCI also comes built-in with a backup feature. This eliminates the need to use a third-party solution, simplifying the backup process and reducing cost. The hospital can set up daily, weekly, or hourly backups. This flexibility ensures that critical data is readily available for recovery if needed.
Switching to Sangfor HCI has improved our system's performance, reduced complaints, and alleviated bottleneck issues. It's easy, convenient, and fast, making system management more straightforward. Thank you, Sangfor, for helping us achieve our vision of a smart hospital.
Phuwadon Lerssri, IT specialist at Wanon Niwat Hospital
Conclusion
Implementing Sangfor HCI has been transformative for Wanon Niwat Hospital. The enhanced system performance, simplified management, robust security features, and efficient data backup capabilities have collectively contributed to the hospital's goal of becoming a smart hospital. In addition, the solution implemented has played a vital role in complying with the HAIT standard issued by Thailand’s Ministry of Health. By addressing the previous challenges and meeting all service requirements, Sangfor HCI has paved the way for a more intelligent and efficient healthcare system.