Rotterdam, June 6, 2023 - Intermax, the Rotterdam-based managed service provider for critical IT infrastructure, announces that it will maintain and manage various critical IT services of the IJsselland Hospital. The IJsselland Hospital in Capelle a/d IJssel is a general regional hospital with 332 beds and three outpatient clinics in Rotterdam Nesselande, Krimpen aan den IJssel and in Rotterdam-Kralingen. To make more room for the Digitalization & IT department's core tasks, such as managing workstations and healthcare applications, the hospital decided to transfer management and maintenance of the server & storage infrastructure to Intermax. IJsselland Hospital is the first of four collaborating regional ZXL hospitals to make the switch.
Jos van Zuylen, IT operations team leader at IJsselland Hospital, explains: "The maintenance and management of the virtual server environment, as well as the storage and backup environment, requires a lot of time and knowledge. Since we have limited manpower at the hospital, we made the decision to outsource this piece of the IT infrastructure. We came to choose Intermax in a joint tender process with the four ZXL hospitals in the region. ZXL is our purchasing organization to which several hospitals in the region are affiliated. Intermax has proven experience and came up with an excellent proposal that showed that they have the right knowledge in-house and are a good team player."
The switch recently took place and offers multiple benefits for the hospital. Van Zuylen: "The migration was carried out while the servers were in use and without disruption or problems for our healthcare colleagues. No one in the hospital experienced an interruption; the transition really went smoothly. We are now using an IT infrastructure that is more stable than before. The management of the server & storage infrastructure is entirely in the hands of Intermax, which above all gives us a lot of space and time to get busy with our primary task: supporting healthcare as optimally as possible."
IJsselland Hospital did not make the IT outsourcing decision alone. They are collaborating in this area with four more regional hospitals that plan to perform the same migration with Intermax. Van Zuylen says: "The cooperation with the other hospitals means that we can also make interesting decisions from a budgetary perspective. We are the first to switch with Intermax and are already experiencing many benefits that we can show to the other hospitals. Right now we are using IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), in the future we will be looking at PaaS (Platform as a Service). We are confident that this will work out as well. Intermax is a very committed partner and works shoulder to shoulder with us on a stable and secure infrastructure."
