Challenges: -Support the varied and evolving IT needs of healthcare organizations nationwide. -Establish easy scalability to support company growth and diverse customer storage requirements. -Improve storage performance, availability, and flexibility to better meet current and future needs. Solution: -Engage Northland Systems to identify and implement a flexible, tiered storage area network solution. -Implement VMware® over NFS to virtualize servers and a diverse range of hosted medical applications for maximum efficiency. -Implement a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture in both internal and hosted environments with multiple performance tiers and disaster recovery capabilities.

1. Netgain Realizes Performance
and Efficiency Gains with
Northland Systems and NetApp
Another NetApp
solution delivered by:
Customer Profile performance tiers and disaster
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Netgain is a healthcare information recovery capabilities.
technology provider helping physician Benefits
Customer practices and rural hospitals reach
 Netgain  Accelerated performance by 60%
“meaningful use” of electronic health
 St. Cloud, MN records (EHR) faster. Netgain’s while significantly reducing costs with
 www.netgainhosting.com NetApp Flash Cache and
dedicated cloud and private cloud
offerings allow organizations of all sizes deduplication technologies.
NetApp Partner  Gained the flexibility to create
and specialties to enjoy cloud
 Northland Systems multiple performance tiers along with
computing benefits without
 www.northlandsystems.com the ability to offer performance and
compromising control or security.
price levels commensurate with
“Northland Systems provided Customer Challenges business needs.
Netgain the education we needed  Support the varied and evolving IT  Enabled disaster recovery using
to not only choose a SAN vendor needs of healthcare organizations NetApp Snapshot and replication
but to understand the many nationwide. technologies in conjunction with
features NetApp brings to the  Establish easy scalability to support VMware server virtualization
table and how to take advantage company growth and diverse capabilities.
of them. Today, I consider NetApp customer storage requirements.  Achieved 52% space savings with
the ‘Swiss-Army knife’ of storage.”  Improve storage performance, NetApp deduplication.
availability, and flexibility to better  Supported 1,400 server workloads
Scott Baynes
meet current and future needs. with 30%+ server growth rate without
Vice President of Technology adding staff.
Netgain Solution
Environment
 Engage Northland Systems to ®
Products and Services  Applications: VMware, Microsoft
® identify and implement a flexible,
 NetApp FAS2040, 3140, 3210, Exchange, and others including 300+
tiered storage area network solution.
3240, and 3270 storage systems ® medical and line-of-business
 Implement VMware over NFS to
 NetApp Flash Cache applications
™ virtualize servers and a diverse range
 NetApp Snapshot  Databases: Microsoft SQL Server ,
®
® of hosted medical applications for
 NetApp SnapMirror ®
Oracle , and others
® maximum efficiency.
 NetApp FlexClone  Operating system: Microsoft
®  Implement a NetApp Unified Storage
 NetApp SnapVault ®
Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, and
™ Architecture in both internal and
 NetApp OnCommand 2003; Linux
®
® hosted environments with multiple
 NetApp MutiStore  Protocols: 10Gbps NFS, iSCSI, FC
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