The Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a network of hospitals in Philadelphia, Tulsa, Okla., and suburban Chicago and Phoenix, has upgraded its technology infrastructure with servers designed to increase system performance, uptime and reliability.

CTCA has deployed more than 500 HP ProLiant servers, including 200 blade servers, in its production and disaster recovery sites around the country. The CTCA environment runs on a combination of HP ProLiant DL580, DL380, DL560, BL460c, BL480c and BL260c servers.

CTCA depends on its technology infrastructure for operating comprehensive electronic health records, specialized clinical programs, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning applications. Its integrated systems allow the organization to maintain all-digital operations with 100 percent uptime to ensure patient care and safety, according to CTCA executives.

CTCA officials said they evaluated HP against other hardware vendors offering competing server technologies. They selected HP ProLiant servers based on the capabilities of the technology, including ease of management, along with the strength of HP's product roadmap and price, said CIO Chad Eckes.

"The growth of our organization required expanding our infrastructure to effectively respond to our needs," said  Eckes. "HP's innovative blade server technology delivers increased performance and reliability while ensuring the 100 percent uptime our mission-critical business applications require. This powerful technology infrastructure translates to improved care for our patients."

CTCA relies on the HP Insight Control (IC) management console for a full view of its infrastructure. In addition to monitoring server health and performance, the console aids in deploying new servers quickly and decreasing the organization's technology management costs.

CTCA plans to invest in additional HP servers in the coming years on a project-by-project basis, Eckes said.