Emmental Regional Hospital Achieves Significant Cost Savings with Virtualization and Hardware Independence

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The Emmental Regional Hospital AG, a healthcare institution based in Switzerland, has successfully implemented a virtualized infrastructure powered by Microsoft Hyper-V and DataCore storage virtualization software. This consolidation has resulted in significant cost savings, improved productivity, and increased flexibility in managing storage resources. By leveraging server and storage virtualization, the hospital has achieved hardware independence, allowing it to improve its purchasing power and reduce its dependence on specific hardware suppliers.

Key Takeaways:

  • The hospital has realized a 30% reduction in ongoing operational savings through virtualization.
  • The implementation has resulted in a 15% cost savings on hardware purchases.
  • The virtualized infrastructure has enabled the hospital to set up an entire system within 15 minutes, reducing the time and resources needed for server setup and management.
  • The DataCore storage virtualization software has improved high availability, increased resource utilization, and provided greater flexibility in provisioning and managing storage.
  • The hospital's IT strategy now includes the integration of DataCore storage virtualization and Microsoft Hyper-V to cut costs and increase flexibility.
  • The software has enabled the hospital to expand its storage dynamically as required, adding flexibility for new projects and reducing dependence on hardware vendors.
  • Falko Gieldanowski, Head of IT at Emmental Regional Hospital, estimates that the software has resulted in cost savings of around 15 percent for hardware purchases.

Statistics:

  • 30% reduction in ongoing operational savings
  • 15% cost savings on hardware purchases
  • 15 minutes: Time required to set up an entire system with Microsoft System Center and DataCore
  • 20 physical Hyper-V servers: Number of servers hosting many virtual machines supported and provisioned with storage under DataCore's storage virtualization software
  • 2 HP servers: Number of servers running DataCore's storage virtualization software
  • Around 20 virtual machines: number of machines hosted on physical Hyper-V servers

Sources:

  • Emmental Regional Hospital AG (http://www.rs-e.ch/)
  • ONETec AG
  • Microsoft (Microsoft[R] Windows Server[R] 2008 Hyper-V R2)
  • HP
  • DataCore Software (www.datacore.com)
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