Image Gallery: Siemens Healthcare Data Center Virtual Tour
Siemens Information Systems Center near Philadelphia hosts and maintains clinical and business applications for nearly 1,000 U.S. hospitals and healthcare delivery systems.
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There are more than 5,000 servers, many from IBM, managed at the Siemens ISC. Approximately 558,000 end user devices are supported, as well.
Entrance to the Siemens Information Systems Center, or ISC, in Malvern, PA, outside of Philadelphia. The data center hosts more than 2,400 customer environments, including 853 U.S. healthcare facilities.
The center processes approximately 201 million transactions daily, including hospital transactions for checking patient insurance eligibility to computerized physician order entry. About 40% of U.S. population has medical data hosted here.
Services provided from the Siemens data center include systems management, operations - including staffing and disaster recovery; application management, wide area network management, and application and system support.
Daniel Emig, VP of hosting services at Siemens Healthcare.
Hundreds of batteries sit ready to serve as one of several back-up power supply sources inside the Siemens data center.
One of four generators ready to serve as a back-up power supply source inside the Siemens data center.
Operators monitor the servers that host the clinical and financial patient data flow of nearly 1,000 hospitals and healthcare systems across the U.S. Siemens says its application availability is 99.9%. Among the software supported are Siemens Soarian clinical and financial applications.
Miles of pipes and redundant back-up pipes snake through the Siemens ISC as part of the facility's cooling infrastructure.
Another look at the heating and cooling system inside Siemens' Healthcare's data center.
A Siemens expert inspects a printing machine inside the enormous printing room housed inside the data center, which publishes and mails 2.9 million statements for hospitals and health systems each month.
Inside the reception area at the Siemens Information Systems Center
Two redundant chillers and redundant pipe lines - seen here on the ISC's roof -- are ready to go in the event the data center's other chillers are not operational.
One of the security screening devices visitors to and employees of Siemens datacenter must pass through each time they enter the facility.
This security device checks for evidence of explosive materials on people as they enter the ISC.
Security - both data and physical - are extremely tight at the Siemens ISC. Some Siemens insiders refer to the facility as the company's "Fort Knox."
There are nearly 3,000 unique application environments hosted by the servers inside the Siemens' ISC.
As of January 2010, the Siemens ISC housed approximately 797 terabytes of online storage.
A look down an isle of archival tapes inside the Siemens Information Systems Center.
A view from the front of one of several back-up tape silos, which use robotic arms to help move and catalog thousands of older files for nearly 1,000 hospitals and healthcare systems across the U.S.
Peering inside one of the servers housed at the Siemens Healthcare Information Systems Center, which process more than 200 million clinical and financial patient data transactions per day.
Michael Long, senior VP of Global Services at Siemens Healthcare
Michael Long, senior VP of Global Services at Siemens Healthcare
There are more than 5,000 servers, many from IBM, managed at the Siemens ISC. Approximately 558,000 end user devices are supported, as well.
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