At that point, the IT team at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse worked with the team at AWS to deploy a third-party SANless clustering tool to enable high-performance data replication among the storage systems in the failover cluster, which then ensured that the secondary server nodes all had up-to-date copies of all EHR data. If for any reason the primary infrastructure failed, the secondary infrastructure could come online in moments and enable continued access to the information that individuals and systems throughout the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse needed.
In the end, the cloud offers healthcare IT providers—and healthcare information consumers—a great deal of flexibility and power. You can configure for the high availability that healthcare requires, but you need to think differently about how you will achieve your availability goals and make sure you test all aspects of your cloud configuration to ensure that your solution achieving one goal is not compromising your solution for achieving another.
About the Author: Jason Aw, technical lead, APAC at SIOS Technology, is an IT professional who has been focused on high availability and disaster recovery for over 20 years. He has helped hundreds of enterprises implement HA/DR solution to protect critical applications including SQL, Oracle databases, SAP, web and many others.
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