Wednesday July 2,2008
HexaGrid Managed Services Platform is Helping Our Urgent Care Centers Save Big on Server-Related Expenses

Saint Louis, MO.(--BUSINESS WIRE--) HexaGrid Computing, a Managed Services Provider Specializing in Virtualization and Server consolidation services, today announced that Our Urgent Care Centers, one of the saint louis leading centers of urgent care practice, has deployed Novell Xen Infrastructure to virtualize its mission-critical applications and create a flexible, easily administered virtual infrastructure. HexaGrid offers enterprise-class functionality and deployment tools that fit the needs of small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The Urgent Care is one of the SMBs that utilize HexaGrid's proven and reliable cost-effective solutions to optimize their existing IT investments. Novell Xen provides the scalability and flexibility for customers to buy what they need today and evolve their virtualization solutions as their business needs grow.

When they purchased medical Patient Relationship Management application to handle multiple site, Our UrgentCare faced the capacity planning and scalability choices. The application demands realtime patient management at the front desk in printing labels to patient discharges, Insurance card scanning to Claims and Billing. With the volume of traffic flowing during normal business days high availability and application performance is expected between 8am-8pm 365days a year. Trying various thick client solutions failed to meet the performance expectations.

Our Urgent Care centers plan to grow from current 3 centers to 6/8 centers in the coming years, and planned to add digitized X-Ray Imaging system in all it's centers which adds lot of storage requirements at the tune of 2 TeraByte's of Archival storage per annum.

After doing careful analysis HexaGrid recommended DataCenter Managed Server Virtualization Solution. Hosted in Level3 Facility with site-to-site VPN between all the locations, Centralizing there Server and Storage needs.

HexaGrid's Platform allows capacity on demand by scaling the application from single server to Multi server or increasing the memory capacity or installing a new load balancing terminal server with less than 30 minutes of scheduled downtime. All desktop are now converted into thin clients reducing the local processing requirements. During upgrades it is now possible to snapshot server apply patches with the worry of data corruption or rollback's

"Patient Record Management application allows us to handle high volume of patients during busy hours, having a Managed technology provider like HexaGrid  abstract's the technology and capacity planning which goes behind the scene, has been very effective in helping us  focus on our core health care business" said Kevin Guerra, Manager at Our Urgent Care centers.

About Our Urgent Care Centers.

Our Urgent Care Centers and are now the largest independently owned and operated chain of Urgent Care Centers in the State of Missouri. We are unique in our coverage of the St. Louis metro area, with Urgent Care Centers in 3 different counties (St. Louis, St. Charles and Warren County).

The company slogan of " Convenient Hours for Inconvenient Times" is what we are all about. For more information, please visit http://www.oururgentcare.com

About HexaGrid

HexaGrid Computing Inc, a managed infrastructure services development company specialized in server virtualization technologies catering to ASP, MSP and VAR's serving data center, enterprises and mid-size businesses.

HexaGrid's in house built HxGrid Platform simplifies and automates Server provisioning, Monitoring, Data Security, Remote Management and Server Consolidation. Built with Vendor Neutral services technology it enhances and interoperates with VMware, Citrix, Novell and Microsoft's virtualization platforms.

HexaGrid computing has offices in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA and Hyderabad, India. For more information, please visit http://www.hexagrid.com