Karolinska Hospital

“TelecityGroup demonstrated that they could meet all our needs for hosting and data centre requirements extremely well.”

Johan Gillström, IT Director, Karolinska Hospital.

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Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Karolinska Hospital is one of the leading university hospitals in Europe. It has a comprehensive children’s hospital, and the largest lab facility in the Nordic region. It is a leader in the area of women’s health, and offers comprehensive operations for diseases of the brain and nervous system. Karolinska is also a research hospital, and is pioneering care and research on diseases such as diabetes, allergies, circulatory and cardiovascular diseases, arthropathy, lung diseases and cancer.

The Brief

The Hospital was looking for an infrastructure partner to whom it could outsource its complete IT infrastructure platform, following a decision in 2002 to take back direct operational management of its IT applications and hardware from third-party operators.

Karolinska short-listed six suppliers for the final tender process on a wide variety of criteria. Of key importance were details on physical infrastructure, such as the presence of UPS systems and levels of security, and more practical areas such as the engineering skills of the supplier’s staff and the ability for Karolinska engineers to access the facilities around the clock.

The Result

According to Johan Gillström, IT Director at Karolinska Hospital, “Applications that were earlier managed by external suppliers are now being managed by our own teams. We decided, however, that we wanted to outsource the hardware platform for our entire IT infrastructure leaving the team free to focus on operating the systems. TeleCity demonstrated that they could meet all our needs for hosting and data centre requirements extremely well.”

The hospital has a dedicated suite at TelecityGroup’ facility in Bromma, Stockholm and has a multi-gigabit link connecting this data centre to its own facilities situated a few kilometres away.

Reasons for choosing TelecityGroup

• High levels of network diversity and resilient power and UPS capabilities
• Availability for customer site access TeleCity engineering expertise
• High levels of security on offer
• Metro extension connectivity

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