PHNS develops ‘disaster-proof’ subterranean data center

PHNS Inc. has announced that its new subterranean, national data center for PHNS' hospital customers will be located 85 feet underground in a solid limestone cave in the SpringNet Underground facility developed by City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri. PHNS will migrate a significant portion of its national hospital data center operations to its new subterranean data center.

This new facility, combined with PHNS' redundant and high availability network, will enable PHNS to ensure that its hospital customers' patient information and technology operations can withstand hurricanes, tornados, floods, earthquakes and other disasters.

"PHNS' new subterranean data center will offer unsurpassed protection for hospitals' vital patient information, and it will ensure that hospitals continue to provide healthcare services despite hurricanes, tornados and other disasters," said Chris Walls, president of PHNS' IT division. "Our new 'digital fortress' will provide our hospitals with unparalleled data center reliability, responsiveness and flexibility, plus improved data backup capability," continued Walls. "The best part is that we will do this at reduced costs to our hospitals because we are centralizing and sharing our hospital IT resources in one highly efficient, centralized and safe data center location."

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•Date: 12th April 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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