Emmental Regional Hospital Achieves Significant Cost Savings with DataCore and Microsoft Hyper-V

Strategic Insights -

Emmental Regional Hospital, located in Switzerland, has successfully transformed its IT infrastructure by consolidating its data center into a virtualized environment, leveraging Microsoft Hyper-V and DataCore storage virtualization software. This collaborative effort has resulted in substantial operational savings, improved productivity, and increased flexibility. The hospital's IT department, led by Falko Gieldanowski, Head of IT, has achieved impressive benefits through this innovative approach.

Key Takeaways:

  • Emmental Regional Hospital has realized up to 15 percent savings in hardware purchases and around 30 percent in ongoing operational savings.
  • The hospital has achieved hardware independence, enabling it to improve its purchasing power and reduce its dependence on specific hardware suppliers.
  • DataCore's storage virtualization software has enabled a new level of high availability, increased resource utilization, and greater flexibility in provisioning and managing storage.
  • The hospital's IT team has observed a significant reduction in time and resources needed to set up new servers, from multiple hours to just 15 minutes.
  • The partnership with ONETec AG, a DataCore partner, has been instrumental in designing and implementing a configuration of DataCore and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2.
  • DataCore's storage virtualization software runs on two HP servers, ensuring high-availability and eliminating single points of failure.
  • The hospital currently has around 20 physical Hyper-V servers hosting many virtual machines, all provisioned and supported by DataCore's storage virtualization software.

Statistics:

  • Up to 15 percent savings in hardware purchases.
  • Around 30 percent savings in ongoing operational savings.
  • 30 percent reduction in time and resources needed to set up new servers.
  • 20 physical Hyper-V servers hosting many virtual machines.

Sources:

  • Computer Weekly News, "DataCore and Microsoft Hyper-V deliver improved performance and lower costs for webercare, Germany".
  • Emmental Regional Hospital (http://www.rs-e.ch/).
  • DataCore Software Corporation, "DataCore and Microsoft Hyper-V combine to cut costs for Emmental Regional Hospital"