ments the ability to quickly deploy
new applications as services while
maintaining the security of patient
information.
That project enabled the largest multispecialty group medical
practice in Kansas to reduce stor-
After adding a modular Dell
Compellent Storage Center SAN
The Dell Compel-
lent system automati-
cally moves older, less-frequently
accessed data to Tier 3 hard drives,
opening up capacity on Tier 1 for
I/O-intensive applications such as
SQL databases.
Prior to the rollout, UKP, like many
other organizations, over-allocated
storage resources to ensure that
applications kept running. In three
months, about 55.6% of the 28.8TB
of usable space on the Dell Compellent system was allocated and used,
28.5% was allocated and unused
and 15.9% was unallocated.
The virtualized storage system
also supported more efficient
management of backup, recovery and archiving. The healthcare
center no longer uses tape for
This is the beginning of the
software era of networking.
SCOTT SHENKER, FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER,
OPEN NETWORKING FOUNDATION
age capacity requirements by 65%
and cut its spending on disk drives
by 50% after migrating 80% of its
data to less expensive, high-capac-ity drives. Additionally, UKP added
automated tiered storage and thin
provisioning technology to its infrastructure, allowing applications
to increase storage capacity on an
as-needed basis instead of overprovisioning upfront.
“With the delivery of healthcare,
the treatment plan is usually fairly
quick, over a couple of weeks or
months, and that data needs to be
fresh and accessed fairly quickly,”
Orndoff says. “After treatment, the
data becomes fairly stale and is
archived to a third tier of storage.”
