Kansas Spine Hospital
Kansas Spine Hospital wanted the ability to scale their storage needs intelligently, resulting in the selection and deployment of the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN, part of the Dell Fluid Data architecture.
Date
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12/1/2011
Once a patient is discharged and billing is complete, there is no reason to keep the data on the faster, more expensive drives. Dell Fluid Data architecture allows us to use a combination of drive technologies to save money and provide better performance.
Michael Knocke, Chief Information Officer, Kansas Spine Hospital, United States
Challenge
With more than 80 percent of the hospital's data flowing into its picture archive communication system (PACS), the existing storage was proving difficult to scale.Solution
After evaluating storage systems from several vendors, Kansas Spine Hospital selected the Dell™ Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN), part of the Dell Fluid Data™ architecture.Benefits
• Simplified administration with Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager• Dramatically reduced bandwidth and capacity costs with Dell Compellent Remote Instant Replay
• Saved approximately 85 percent of acquisition costs for a backup solution by leveraging affordable disaster-recovery features
