University Hospital Policlinico Umberto I

Company Biography

The Policlinico Umberto I is the largest hospital in Europe in terms of occupied area and the third Italian hospital in terms of capacity. It's made up of "pavilion" buildings spread over 300 thousand square meters, and distributed in 54 buildings. The first stone of the hospital was laid on 19 January 1888 in the presence of the Sovereigns of Italy. Named after King Umberto I, it began to operate in early 1903, after a solemn inauguration ceremony held in Capitoline Hill in Rome.

A national and highly specialized healthcare company, home to a level II DEA (Department of Emergency, Urgency and Acceptance). It is a complex structure within which research, training, and assistance activities are inextricably intertwined.

It comes out with 1,235 beds, 4,700 employees, traffic of 20,000 people per day, 41,000 hospitalizations per year, 24,000 patients welcomed in day hospitals, 1,000,000 services per year including instrumental diagnostics and medical visits, 900,000 laboratory tests, 20,000 investigations of pathological anatomy in one year and as many radiological investigations, 140,000 annual visits to the Emergency and Reception Department. These are the impressive numbers that give the measure of the grandeur and liveliness of Umberto I, the Roman polyclinic par excellence.

As the reference hospital of the Faculties of "Medicine and Dentistry" and "Pharmacy and Medicine" of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", is home to the teaching center which organizes 5 master's degree courses in "Medicine and Surgery" and "Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics". It also carries out important training functions for degree courses for the healthcare professions and specialization schools.

The Challenge

Policlinico Umberto I needs a fast and secure storage device to back up the Virtual Machines of their Hyper-V cluster by snapshots with VEEAM every 15 minutes, using FC protocol, in a repository that could grant high availability, sustained performance, and minimum latency.