University Hospital Galway
University Hospital Galway implemented Dell™ Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data™ technology to virtualize its storage. As a result, the hospital cut storage management time by around 75 percent.
Date
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8/1/2011
The Dell Compellent capabilities won us over. Ease of management was particularly important for me. The fact we could get all these advanced features and expansion possibilities with fewer overheads was compelling.
Martin Murphy, Chief Technology Officer, Galway University Hospitals, Ireland
Challenge
University Hospital Galway faced increasing demands for data storage. As part of a move to virtualization, it looked for a storage technology that was simple to scale and manage and could reduce operating costs.Solution
The hospital chose Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data™ technology to deliver the scalability and easy management that it required. With the Dell Compellent solution, the group increased disk utilisation and moved data to lower-cost drives.Benefits
• Reduce storage management by around 75 percent• Improve disk utilisation by approximately 30 percent
• Cuts storage costs with approximately 70 percent of data running on SATA drives
• Allocates storage on demand, saving time
• Lowers energy use with consolidated storage
