Marathon and Siemens Provide 24*7 Access Control for Scott & White Hospital and Clinics
THE ORGANIZATION
Today, Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic is the largest multi-specialty practice in Texas, with more than 500 physicians who provide care in Temple and at 15 regional clinics throughout Central Texas. In addition to accepting most major insurance plans, they deliver care to members of the Scott & White Health Plan, one of the highest rated plans in the nation. Scott & White is also the clinical educational site for The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
“The Marathon solution for SiPass, offers us the extremely high level of availability we need for our critical control system at 24*7 facilities, where interruptions in the access control security system cannot be tolerated.”
A NATIONAL REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE
Through their commitment to patient care, education and research, the dedicated physicians of Scott & White have built a nationally acclaimed health care organization, recognized by organizations that include U.S. News & World Reports and Newsweek, with a reputation for excellence in cancer, orthopedics and cardiovascular care. Scott & White Memorial Hospital is listed among the "Top 100 Hospitals" in America for cardiovascular, stroke and orthopedics care; and the Scott & White Health Plan has consistently been recognized among the highest rated health plans in the nation for member satisfaction.
THE SITUATION
Scott & White is developing a new Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) that will be technologically integrated, interdisciplinary and designed for the most important people in a hospital – the patients.
This new facility will have a new Siemens SiPass access control system installed for security. The access control for other clinics in surrounding areas is also controlled from the same server, installed in the CAM.
Siemens Building Technologies was chosen to provide a single controlling SiPass system to control access to all of these important facilities which operate 24*7. A solution was required to protect the SiPass security system from any failures. Marathon’s everRun was chosen, since it is the qualified fault-tolerant solution for Siemens’ SiPass and it offers simple and superior application and system availability.
THE SOLUTION
Siemens Building Technologies and Scott & White turned to Marathon Technologies for its everRun FT solution, which was set up in a very short time and passed the required tests immediately.
everRun FT synchronizes two standard Windows servers to create a virtual application environment that runs a single license of SiPass on both servers simultaneously. If a device or even an entire server fails, SiPass continues to operate uninterrupted. All redundancies and failures are completely transparent to the applications and users, with no interruption or downtime.
Applications are installed, run, managed and accessed through a single Windows environment, eliminating the need to license, install and manage multiple copies as required in clustering and failover situations.
THE RESULT
“The Marathon solution for SiPass, offers us the extremely high level of availability we need for our critical control system at 24*7 facilities, where interruptions in the access control security system cannot be tolerated,” said Mr. Royce Cox, Senior Project Manager of Siemens Building Technologies.
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