Boston Medical Center
Date
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6/1/2010
Dell knows us, and they know our pain points. They’ve garnered our trust.
— Brad Blake, chief technology officer, Boston Medical Center, United States
Challenge
Boston Medical Center (BMC) needed to find ways to lower its operational costs to work within smaller budgets despite exploding data volumes, a sprawling server farm and 6,000 desktop users who needed access to clinical applications for patient care.Solution
The hospital pursued a data center virtualization strategy to simplify and consolidate storage, servers and desktops into an easy-to-manage, centralized solution that helps drive down operating costs. BMC used Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® Xeon® processors, Dell EqualLogic™ storage and VMware®.Benefits
- Hours to install internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) storage compared to days previously
- Up to $150,000 per year saved by eliminating Fibre Channel SAN port costs
- $3.2 million saved in equipment avoidance costs
- $150,000 savings annually from 50 percent cut in power bill for data center
- Reduced licensing costs for desktops with desktop virtualization solution
- Improved security with desktop virtualization
- Continued green initiatives with desktop virtualization
- Ability to manage storage without specialized training
- Ability to more effectively tier data and delay storage purchases using virtualized iSCSI storage with thin provisioning
