The EMC® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions for Healthcare—enabled by Vblock™, VMware® View™, and Imprivata OneSign®—improve clinical workflows, increase levels of service, reduce costs, and deliver secure, robust, location-aware access to virtual desktop environments.

VCE’s Vblock converged infrastructure simplifies VDI solution deployments. VMware View enables your organization to provide a highly available point-of-care solution while reducing operational and management costs. The solution centralizes desktop environments in the data center enabling the patching of operating systems and application updates to be delivered more efficiently.

Imprivata OneSign simplifies and secures clinician access to desktop, networks, and applications. Physicians and nurses can navigate seamlessly across healthcare applications accessing critical information regardless of their locations.

BUSINESS AND CLINICAL CHALLENGESLeveraging the EMC Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Healthcare powered by Vblock can help healthcare organizations address both business and clinical challenges, including:

•Providingsecureandquickaccesstoregulatedpatientinformationwithaconsistentuserexperience

•MinimizingthecomplexityofdeployingaVDIsolution•Reducingthecostandcomplexityofmaintainingmultipleapplicationsonnumerous

workstations prone to administrative errors•Supportingincreasingservice-leveldemandswithfewerresources•Increasingclinicalproductivityandworkflowwhilemaintainingsecurityofyourmost

at-risk patient information

EMC VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTION FOR HEALTHCARE

Powered by Vblock, enabled by VMware View and Imprivata OneSign

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ESSENtIALS• Enableacceleratedtime-to-treatmentwith

immediateaccesstoEMRapplications

• Addmorevirtualdesktopseasilyasneedsgrow

• Deployanddecommissionvirtualdesktops much faster than in traditional VDI environments

• Simplifymanagementoftheservers,network, and storage whether co-located or distributed, around the world

• Supportthousandsofvirtualdesktopusers on a single Vblock

• Preservedesktopdatasecurity

tHE EMC SoLUtIoNThis Vblock solution enables your organization to centralize desktop environments and your most at-risk information with a proven converged platform. The Vblock solution leverages best-in-class capabilities—advanced unified storage from EMC; best-in-class networking and Unified Computing System™ from Cisco; and virtualization technology and View from VMware, the leading business virtualization infrastructure provider. Combined with OneSign Secure and OneSign Prove ID from Imprivata, the solution delivers an integrated stack, accelerating a successful healthcare VDI deployment. This solution optimizes performance, improves scalability, and reduces storage costs for the virtual desktop environment—while delivering enterprise-class service-level agreements.

Vblock infrastructure platforms from VCE deliver a completely integrated IT offering that combines best-in-class virtualization, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technologies with end-to-end, single-vendor accountability. This converged infrastructureenablesrapidvirtualizationdeployment,sohealthcareprovidersquicklyseeareturn on investment.

Vblock Infrastructure Platforms offer several storage capacities, processing, and network performance. They support incremental capabilities like enhanced security and business continuity. Finally, desktop virtualization enables your organization to deploy and leverage cloud computing business models. They deliver real benefits today in your virtualized, converged information infrastructure while laying a strong foundation for a private cloud.

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EMCInfrastructureforVirtualDesktopEnabledbyVMwareViewreducesstoragerequirementsleveragingVMware View Composer linked-clone technology and Vblock advanced technologies from VCE.

SoLUtIoN CoMPoNENtS

EMC•EMCCelerra® unified storage is a dedicated network server that is optimized for file and

block access and delivers unmatched simplicity and efficiency in virtualized environments.•FullyAutomatedStorageTiering(FAST)tracksI/Oandmigratesdatatotherighttierof

storage depending on user demand.•FASTCacheenablesEnterpriseFlashdrives(EFDs)toactasanexpandedcachelayerfor

the array, delivering optimized performance to all workloads.

CISCO•CISCOUnifiedComputingSystemdatacenterplatformunitescompute,network,storage

access, and virtualization into a cohesive system design to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility.

•CISCOUnifiedComputingSystementerprise-classx86-architechtureserversintegratelowlatency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified that carries both IP and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) traffic over the same link.

vMwArE•VMwareViewmodernizestheclinicalworkstationanddeliverspoint-of-caresolutionswith

EMRapplicationsasanon-stopservicefromthedatacenter.VMwareViewComposercreates master desktop images to easily deploy groups or pools of desktops across the environment, ensuring consistency and simplified image management.

•VMwarevSphere™ is the leading virtualization platform providing high reliability, with features that continually monitor load balance and dynamically allocated resources across you desktop environment.

IMPrIvAtA•ImprivataOne-TouchClinicianRoamingenablesthedesktoptofollowthecliniciantoany

workstation, immediately restoring it to its previous state, eliminating the need to restart each clinical application and streamlining access to patient data.

•ImprivataOneSignSecureWalk-Awayautomaticallylogs-outclinicianswhentheyleaveaworkstation and re-authenticates them upon return, reducing errors and risk of “unattended records.”

•ImprivataOneSignProveIDenablesanapplicationtoleveragestrongauthenticationservices at any point in the workflow, for example, prior to drug disbursement.

SoLUtIoN BENEFItSTheEMCVirtualDesktopInfrastructureSolutionforHealthcarehelpstoimprovethequalityof patient care and reduce medical errors providing highly available point-of-care desktops withimmediateaccesstoEMRapplications.Solutionuserscanalso:

•Addmorevirtualdesktopseasilyasneedsgrow,simplybymovingtolarger,oraddingmore, Vblock Infrastructure Platforms.

•Deployanddecommissionvirtualdesktopsmuchfasterthantraditionalvirtualdesktopinfrastructure environments.

•Simplifymanagementoftheservers,network,andstorage,whetherco-locatedordistributed around the world.

•Accommodateunplannedeventssuchasspikesandbootstormswithself-curingarchitecture that ensures a consistent high-performance virtual desktop user experience.

•SupportthousandsofvirtualdesktopusersonasingleVblock.•Reducemedicaladministrativeerrors,enableimmediateaccesstopatientdata,and

preservesecurityofdatawithLocationAwareroamingdesktops.

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