Case Study: Digital Spark Ltd. achieves 24/7 high availability and scalable real-time clinical data access with Alachisoft NCache

NCache delivers robust enterprise grade assurance and provides Digital Spark with the ability to make configuration changes without stopping the cache and adversely affecting data availability

Digital Spark Ltd., a UK healthcare software company best known for its CaptureStroke product used in 21 hospitals, needed to ensure clinicians had 24/7 real-time access to patient data and to plan for long-term growth in user traffic. They required a polished, easy-to-configure distributed cache that guaranteed high availability and scalability. After evaluating options, Digital Spark selected Alachisoft’s NCache to meet those needs.

Alachisoft implemented NCache as a clustered, partition/replicate second-level cache (integrated with NHibernate) so Digital Spark can perform configuration changes, add or remove cache servers, and scale capacity without stopping the cache or incurring downtime. The solution delivers the high availability and peak-load handling Digital Spark required—ensuring immediate data access for clinicians across the NHS network, reducing outage risk, and supporting ongoing user growth—while Alachisoft’s NCache also offers substantial application performance improvements (Alachisoft cites up to 10× boosts).

Digital Spark Ltd.

Paul Kirkley

Chief Technology Officer