State University of New York at Buffalo
Date
:
6/1/2010
The Dell EqualLogic and VMware solution is saving us 40 percent on the total cost of ownership for our electronic health record system.
— Eric Warner, assistant director, Medical Computing, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, United States
Challenge
SUNY Buffalo and its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were looking to upgrade their Allscripts™ electronic health record (EHR) software and roll the solution out to their associated medical practices, but wanted to limit the hardware, software and professional services costs to that of a conventional Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) deployment.Solution
Dell helped SUNY Buffalo deploy the EHR solution in a virtualized environment using VMware® software on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Dell EqualLogic™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays.Benefits
- 30 minutes to install and configure iSCSI storage
- 40 percent reduction in total cost of ownership for EHR solution
- Five-nines availability with virtualized servers and storage
- Provisioning of storage by network administrators in minutes instead of hours
- Improved performance and reduced complexity with automatic load balancing
- 75 percent less time to restore data from snapshots versus tapes
- 33 percent less disk capacity needed compared to conventional SAN
- 4.5TB of primary storage reclaimed through thin provisioning
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