HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE

Increase Performance, Reliability, and Flexibility. Reduce Operating Costs.

Demands on health system data centers are rising rapidly as organizations move toward creation of integrated digital hospitals and clinics. Payor data centers are taxed by similar growth, and many are still hampered by information silos and inflexibility caused by legacy applications and proprietary hardware. Biopharma continues its quest for ever-higher computing performance at ever-more cost-effective prices to maintain their research edge. And physician practices are faced with deploying server technologies for the first time.

All need reliable, high-performance infrastructure that can:

• Scale to meet increasing demands
• Deliver the flexibility to quickly deploy new applications and capabilities
• Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Improve IT operations

Intel advantage

Intel leads the industry with proven, innovative server technologies that address these demands. Wherever you are along the path to becoming an integrated digital hospital, clinic, biopharma company, or payor, Intel server technologies are designed to scale and grow as your organization evolves. Using energy-efficient, multicore Intel technologies, your organization can:

• Enhance performance and agility with scalable, flexible infrastructure that can grow and change with your needs
• Reduce operating costs and ensure business continuity by lowering power consumption, maximizing data center performance density, and doing more with every system
• Maintain high server availability and minimize unexpected downtime with Intel's industry-tested technologies and best-in-class reliability features
• Make the most of legacy platforms as you migrate toward more flexible, open standards-based infrastructure that facilitates new application deployment and secure information sharing

High-end servers and mainframe/RISC replacement: Intel® Itanium® processor

Servers based on the Intel® Itanium® processor deliver scalable performance with mainframe-class reliability and improved energy efficiency. They provide unmatched flexibility and cost-effectiveness for RISC and mainframe migration through the industry's broadest operating system support. They are also optimized for business analytics, with high levels of parallelism and advanced computational capabilities.

Using the Intel Itanium processor, healthcare providers can:

• Improve workflows and productivity through improved performance on massive databases
• Conduct more detailed analysis of treatment outcomes and quality metrics
• Consolidate patient care, practice management, and billing information across the extended healthcare enterprise—all at lower cost than RISC and mainframe approaches

Biopharma organizations can:

• Accelerate performance on their most data-intensive and floating-point intensive high-performance computing applications
• Run multiterabyte bioinformatics and cheminformatics databases with scaled-up performance and memory capacity and enterprise-class reliability
• Enhance performance on large enterprise resource planning and scientific databases and data warehouses while improving operating costs and flexibility

Payors can:

• Drive efficiency into analytical applications and business intelligence tools, to better understand customer behavior and design new services and solutions

Mainstream servers: Intel® Xeon® processors

The Intel® Xeon® processors deliver breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, and reliability to accelerate performance on critical applications, reduce operating costs, and enable IT to become more efficient and responsive. With hardware-assisted virtualization and the industry's broadest range of software virtualization solutions, the Intel Xeon processor also helps you make the best use of your IT resources and deploy new capabilities quickly and cost-effectively.

Servers based on the Intel Xeon processors enhance communication portals, telemedicine applications, and other software with outstanding performance, while reducing power and floor space requirements in the data center. They deliver industry-leading performance in key life science benchmarks.