CHUS uses Sand Technology's data management software

Sand Technology has announced that the Sherbrooke University Hospital Center has completed an upgrade of the server used to run its clinical research data warehouse powered by SAND/DNA Analytics data management software.

SAND/DNA Analytics is expected to leverage the increased processing power of the new platform, enabling the Sherbrooke University Hospital Center (CHUS) to provide medical researchers with improved access to the clinical data they require while substantially reducing total cost of ownership, said Sand Technology.

The server upgrade at CHUS involved migrating the clinical data warehouse environment from a Compaq Alpha ES40 OSF1 4-way 866MHz CPU server with 16Gb of RAM to Linux HP DL380 G5 with two 3.16GHz Quad-core Xeon processors and 32Gb of RAM. The resulting reduction in maintenance costs and energy demands has cut total cost of ownership for the warehouse, while SAND/DNA Analytics's linear scalability has brought a four-fold improvement in data load and query speeds, according to Sand Technology. Migration of the data warehouse to the new environment was completed in three days, requiring minimal effort and involving no disruption in service, added Sand Technology.

Hassan Diab, senior system administrator for decision support systems at CHUS's clinical research center, said: In our organization, researchers require very rapid access to a large volume of clinical data from their desktops. SAND/DNA Analytics has clearly demonstrated its ability to make use of increased memory and processing power in an economical and efficient way. Furthermore, migrating the SAND/DNA environment to the new server was a simple and transparent process that didn't require us to interrupt data warehouse services to users.

Serge Bonin, senior solutions architect for Sand Technology, said: We are pleased to be able to show that our SAND/DNA product suite can scale linearly with increases in processing power. This allows our clients to quickly and easily take advantage of ongoing hardware improvements, without requiring them to completely overhaul their data warehouse environment.

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