WALTHAM, Mass. -- CentrePath, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent management solutions for optical and storage networks, today announced that one of its customers, Community Health Network, has been honored as the winner of the Storage Networking World (SNW) Best Practices In Storage award for the System Implementation category. Community Health is specifically recognized for the successful design, implementation and management of an optical and storage network to support the delivery of state-of-the-art patient care. Community Health uses CentrePath's Magellan technology to manage its private optical and storage network to high levels of availability on an ongoing basis.
Community Health leverages its optical and storage network for the transport of digitized medical images (e.g. PACS), electronic medical records, voice and video traffic, as well as for synchronous data replication for business continuity and disaster recovery. CentrePath's Magellan technology enables the IT team at Community Health to pinpoint the root cause of network events in real-time and identify the impact these events have on applications running over the network.
"The IT team at Community Health is honored to be recognized for our optical and storage network initiatives," said Rick Copple, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Community Health. "We have been able to operate our network at carrier-class service levels based on expertise and technology from CentrePath. They are a great partner to work with.We are continually impressed with the vision of Community Health's IT team to roll-out new applications, streamline business continuity initiatives, as well as converge data, voice, and video traffic over their network," said Jim Sullivan, CEO at CentrePath. "Community Health's IT initiatives are indicative of how hospitals and healthcare networks can cost-effectively improve their operations to deliver outstanding patient care. We are proud to work with Community Health to achieve this milestone."
More About SNW's Best Practices in Storage Awards
This prestigious industry award, backed by Storage Networking World, Computerworld, and the Storage Networking Industry Association, honors companies that have applied exemplary storage networking solutions to provide a strategic advantage to their organizations. Recipients were selected from approximately 100 entries from a wide range of IT users and system integrators across multiple industries.
"These awards serve to honor companies and organizations that have made significant contributions to the industry," said Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld. "Each of this year's recipients has demonstrated innovation in their use of storage networking to help advance the larger goals of their organization. We are pleased to have formally recognized these successes in a public forum of their peers."
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