Canary Islands Health Service
Government Health Service Commits to Eco Responsibility with Sun CoolThreads Technology and Sun Ray Virtual Display ClientsThe Canary Islands Health Service is an organization belonging to the Department of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, and is responsible for delivering healthcare services to citizens of the seven islands comprising the region, which is an autonomous community of Spain. In 2006, they provided over 16 million consultations for primary health care, and over 2 million consultations for specialty care. Business Issues
SolutionCanary Island Health Service installs 250 Sun Ray virtual display clients with Solaris 10 Operating System and centralizes its data in servers based on UltraSPARC T1 processors, the first ecologically responsible processor in the world.
Success at a GlanceSeeking to help preserve the paradisiacal environment of the 7 islands that comprise the archipelago of the Canary Islands, the Canary Islands Health Service has chosen ecologically responsible technology from Sun to optimize its 11 training classrooms. The health service has installed 250 Sun Ray virtual display clients over the Solaris 10 Operating System. Also participating in the project is Informática El Corte Inglés, a strategic partner of Sun which has been in charge of the installation of new technology in the Canary Islands Health Service. The Sun Ray virtual display clients have an energy consumption of just 18 watts—or 5 percent the energy consumption of a traditional PC. In addition, the clients are connected in a network to a platform of Sun Fire T2000 servers, which are based on the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor, the industry's most energy-efficient CPU. The acquisition of this Sun technology represents an important advance in ecological responsibility for the regional organization. After an investigation of the different programs and services used previously, the Canary Islands Health Service decided to implement the virtual display clients connected in a network, eliminating the high costs of the previous PC-based platform as well as the limitations it imposes on security and the mobility of users. The initiative has just entered development after completing a testing phase in a one-year pilot program.
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For us, the low energy consumption of the Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients and the Sun servers based on the Ultra SPARC T1 processor ratify one of the basic principles of the Canary Islands Energy Plan (PECAN 2006): the saving of energy.
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— Wenceslao Berriel, Head of the Computer Programming Service, Canary Islands Health Service
With the acquisition of the Sun Ray technology from Sun, the Canary Islands Health Service has improved the management of the work environment in its training classrooms with a new flexible model that centralizes data and applications, minimizing the risk of virus attacks. Classroom users, which are dispersed among the seven islands of the archipelago, use an intelligent card to access their data and applications, independent of the physical location of the Sun Ray virtual display client. Users can access the system at any place where there is a Sun Ray client, restarting their work exactly where they left off by simply introducing their personal Java Card into the card reader of the terminal. This offers employees tremendous flexibility, fulfilling the promise of the “plug-and-play” workplace, and enhancing business operations. |
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