Helping Cancer Patients with Groundbreaking Care and Research

Access to Azure Express Route Local significantly reduces data transfer costs and eliminates egress fees for City of Hope. Additionally, OCX eliminates the need for—and cost of—multiple dedicated ports. The SV7 deployment also positions City of Hope to reduce its on-premise footprint and utilize the real estate for revenue-generating purposes. By reducing these costs, City of Hope can funnel more dollars into life-saving care and research.

While City of Hope requires an on-premise footprint for workloads that demand ultra-low-latency connections, SV7 and its cloud deployments allow City of Hope to place workloads in the most appropriate environments to balance performance, security, costs and speed. Using OCX to easily create virtual connections from an existing port, City of Hope can quickly make these performance-enhancing adjustments. The online portal also allows City of Hope to directly manage connections in near real-time to seamlessly adjust bandwidth in response to demand to ensure capacity issues do not impact research initiatives or patient care.

CoreSite enriches City of Hope's existing hybrid IT strategy, providing the necessary geographic diversity to deliver an effective DR solution as well as dynamic data storage via Azure. This helps City of Hope meet its backup obligation, protect patient data and maintain 100% availability. The native onramps within SV7 allow City of Hope to use colocation as a gateway to multiple cloud platforms to further enhance redundancy and deliver the unyielding uptime required to deliver outstanding patient care. With OCX, City of Hope has access to multiple clouds from one port—eliminating the burden of managing multiple connections and allowing its IT team to focus on patient-facing IT initiatives.

In the healthcare industry, security and compliance are critical. CoreSite helps City of Hope protect its operations and its patients' confidential data. CoreSite also adheres to a series of certifications and meets compliance standards including HIPAA and HITECH. Its multi-layered physical security includes perimeter fencing, security cameras, biometrics and badge access, and around-the-clock monitoring to ensure unauthorized individuals cannot access City of Hope's space. This security is reinforced by OCX's direct cloud connections that bypass the public internet to further safeguard sensitive information.