King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of London's largest and busiest teaching hospitals. King's provides a full range of local hospital services for over 700,000 people in London and plays a key role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students.

Business Problem:

King's College Hospital turned to Transitive for help extending the useful life of its Trust Integration Engine application, which is used to manage patient records. The challenge was to reduce the hardware risk from a slow, 12-year-old SPARC server by replacing it with modern HP ProLiant hardware. The application had outlived the hardware it was originally deployed on, but it was critical to extend its useful life. In addition, the outdated hardware was not able to keep up with increased usage and CPU load was at 100%.

Solution:

The IT team at King's College Hospital deployed QuickTransit for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 on an HP ProLiant server equipped with Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor technology. The application was then moved from the outdated legacy SPARC platform to the more powerful and cost-effective server. The migration was achieved seamlessly, without any changes to source code or binaries.

Results:

• 200% faster solution taking less space with greater energy efficiency
• No expensive, time-consuming or disruptive porting projects
• Minimal impact on productivity of IT team and end users
• Improved application management and monitoring