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Thursday, 18 June 2009 13:00 |
Ideally, the business side of health care should be a secondary concern. Health care insurance provider BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York (BCBS) works hard to help both doctors and patients focus on wellness instead of where to send the bill, and relies on a deep IT infrastructure for everything from claims processing to provider payments and internal operations. However, keeping the BCBS environment running effectively and efficiently had become increasingly expensive and time-consuming.This case study describes how Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services helped BCBS migrate more than 100 servers to Dell? PowerEdge? M600 blade servers with quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors in four PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosures without disrupting the business or end users. BCBS allocated three enclosures to application servers, additional virtualized hosts, and a lab manager environment, and dedicated the remaining enclosure to the next phase of the company?s virtualization strategy, implementing VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).The Dell blade servers led to immediate hardware cost savings for BCBS. The company expects to now replace its servers every five years instead of every three years, cutting hardware expenditures by 20 percent. The PowerEdge M1000e enclosure?s shared resources and remote management capabilities have helped ease administrative complexity and accelerate deployment, providing a 60 percent increase in efficiency. And the blade servers have also consolidated rack requirements by 75 percent and led the company to expect an energy savings of US$6,000 initially and as much as US$40,000 per year as expiring physical servers are converted to blades. Ultimately, the BCBS IT team feels that the benefits of migrating to Dell blade servers reach far beyond the data center?helping them increase efficiencies across the board and provide seamless claims processing when supporting patients around the country.
Source : http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090349-BCBSNY.pdf
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