Case Study: Kantonsspital Winterthur strengthens secure digital patient care with NetApp

Kantonsspital Winterthur pushes ahead with digitizing clinic processes

Kantonsspital Winterthur (KSW), one of Switzerland's largest hospitals, faced the challenge of ensuring its critical patient data was secure, highly available, and protected from cyberattacks like ransomware. The hospital's increasing digitization required an infrastructure that could deliver fast and secure file services for its myriad applications. To meet these demands, they partnered with vendor NetApp and its NetApp ONTAP solutions.

The solution involved implementing NetApp all-flash AFF A300 storage with NetApp Snapshot technology, supported by Cleondris SnapGuard software for ransomware protection. This provided a resilient, high-performance infrastructure across two data centers. The results included a guaranteed 3:1 data reduction, the ability to perform hourly backups, and a drastically improved recovery point objective of just one hour. NetApp provided KSW with a highly secure and stable foundation that supports vital patient care processes and paves the way for future cloud integration.

Kantonsspital Winterthur

Roger Schwegler

Server and Storage Specialist