Medical college reduces storage adminsitration costs by over $100,000 per year
Medical college reduces storage adminsitration costs by over $100,000 per year
By EgovAsia Editors | Aug 11, 2010
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, which also manages healthcare records for New York-Presbyterian System patients, has selected the 3PAR Utility Storage as its storage foundation.
3PAR InServ arrays offered the medical college advanced functionality combined with the ability to start with just the right amount of storage, and then scale within the same box to keep pace with data and application growth—without risking data center sprawl. With 3PAR, capacity could be added at any time without performance degradation or impact to running applications. With legacy dual-controller arrays, expansions meant adding new machines and multiplying space and power requirements.
Weill Cornell initially deployed one InServ S400 array and then added an InServ T400 array to meet all of its consolidated development, test, production, database environment, and backup and recovery requirements. A portion of these InServs were also deployed by Weill Cornell for use as part of the 3cV solution, which combines 3PAR Utility Storage with the HP BladeSystem c-Class blade servers and VMware Infrastructure to deliver transformative levels of agility and efficiency.
By consolidating onto 3PAR Utility Storage, Weill Cornell’s aging data center has received a new lease on life. Six legacy arrays have been eliminated and data center power consumption has been reduced by 10%. The school now relies on 3PAR Utility Storage for its first and second tier data storage needs. This change has saved the medical college an estimated $1 million in up-front costs as compared to the other enterprise-class storage solutions considered for this project. These savings are a result of purchasing “right-sized” storage with “grow-as-you-go” capabilities combined with a 76% reduction in physical capacity requirements thanks to 3PAR Thin Provisioning.
Deploying 3PAR also saves Weill Cornell money on an ongoing basis. Annualized energy savings amount to approximately $50,000 per year and storage administration costs have been reduced by more than $100,000 per year. .
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