THE CLIENT
Israel’s largest HMO, with 3M insured members and 40,000 PCs distributed across 14 hospitals and 1400 clinics nationwide
THE CHALLENGE
Adapt a Power Management platform to environments ranging from administrative office use to ER PCs, in a multi-unit, geographically distributed organization
RESULT
Annual savings of $1.2M; Annual emission reductions of 4500 tons
There are few organizations whose array of personal computers (PCs) is as complex and varied as that of Clalit Health Services. Clalit’s 40,000 PCs are distributed across nearly 2000 locations, ranging from 5-person clinics to 1000-bed hospitals, with hundreds of pharmacies and corporate offices in the mix.
Clalit selected PowerPlug Pro to manage the electricity consumption of its challenging PC environment. From the get go, following a successful trial rollout on several hundreds of computers, PowerPlug Pro’s flexibility and adaptability emerged as the key success factor for Clalit’s cost-cutting targets.
Although a single PowerPlug Pro server could manage all of Clalit’s PCs, Clalit and PowerPlug devised a distributed architecture, with a total of 5 PowerPlug Pro servers. A single server was designated to manage 20,000 PCs distributed in over 1,400 clinics nationwide, another server was allocated for over 10 medium-sized hospitals, two more servers were used to separately manage Clalit’s largest two hospitals. Finally, Clalit’s corporate PCs were assigned to another server.
The product rollout was completed in less than two weeks to the entire PC fleet and surprised even the experienced IT engineers of Clalit commenting: “We have never encountered an easier product to deploy across our PC network than PowerPlug Pro”.
About Clalit Health Services
Clalit Health Services is Israel’s largest healthcare organization, with over 3.8 million insured members. Having recently celebrated a century of providing medical care, Clalit now operates 14 major medical centers, over 1300 clinics and 400 pharmacies, and dozens of specialized health centers.
