Local Health Department Consolidates Six Arrays to One Converged System and Finds Ease and Economics in the Face of an Uncertain Budget
Local Health Department Consolidates Six Arrays to One Converged System and Finds Ease and Economics in the Face of an Uncertain Budget
2 PagesGovernment www.tpchd.org Challenge With six arrays nearing their end of life, the Health Department needed a short- and long-term strategy for simplifying storage management and containing costs. Results • Consolidated six arrays with one converged platform, reducing management time • Reduced storage management to zero and accelerated VM creation by more than 10x • Eliminated a rack of equipment, resulting in just under $10K/yr in power savings • 6x data reduction • Reduced used capacity by two- thirds • Lowered CapEx while gaining headroom for growth “When I saw the Datrium demo, my jaw dropped. What drew me was the ease of use with no LUNs to manage, increasing IOPs as I add hosts, the affordability, and the fact that there’s no latency between the server and stor
