Alamance Regional Medical Center practices good medicine by updating its storage environment.
ARMC had virtualized many servers—and has even earnestly begun moving to a thin-client computing model—but was stifled in part by an older storage architecture that didn’t quite fit with the organization’s cutting-edge reputation. Realizing server virtualization was a great first step, ARMC also knew something else was missing, something that could help shrink IT costs even further.
Working closely with business partner Yorel Integrated Solutions, ARMC diagnosed the problem and found a cure in the form of the NetApp-based IBM N series storage solutions. Using that platform as a unified storage architecture, ARMC has seen many additional cost savings, including a $90,000 annual reduction in its storage budget, a 65-percent decrease in storage requirements thanks to deduplication, and a savings of $50,000 related to the purchase of new-capacity storage upgrades.
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