SoftGrid in Healthcare
Simplify compliance, accelerate application deployments, and reduce perpetual patching
Healthcare organizations are faced with escalating costs, growing organizations and strict government regulations. All of this makes it an extremely challenging environment for IT:
| • | Support many different types of users (clinical, administrative, research) with different computing needs. |
| • | Handle complex applications that can be time-consuming to deploy and support. |
| • | Deploy frequent compliance required updates and patches for validation to numerous applications that keep IT in perpetual state of patching. |
| • | Manage exploding server siloing because of heavy terminal server use and the inability of conflicting applications to run on the same server. |
| • | Support roaming users who share the same desktop but require different applications and configurations. |
The Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Solution
Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization helps address these problems. It transforms the way corporate computing operates by making software as rapidly available. Using SoftGrid's patented application virtualization, policy-based management and on-demand delivery technologies, it changes applications into network services that do not need to be installed. The result is a software environment that is deployed, managed and rapidly available, which in turn delivers dramatically improved business agility.
Healthcare organizations realize tangible, substantial benefits from SoftGrid:
| • | Business continuity: By essentially turning applications into data, SoftGrid helps you more easily copy applications between primary and recovery sites. |
| • | Compliance acceleration: Rapidly deploy compliance-required updates on applications to users. |
| • | Shared computing: Different users can access the same hardware and get the applications they need when they need them. |
| • | Reduce perpetual patching: With SoftGrid, patch regression testing is significantly reduced. This accelerates the time it takes to prepare and deploy a patch. Now patching can be completed in hours instead of weeks or months previously required – and with fewer IT resources. |
| • | Accelerate by up to 80% deployment/upgrades for even the most complex applications. Because different versions of the same application can run on the same machine, upgrades are easier, and users requiring multiple versions don't have to tie up multiple machines. |
