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Warren Memorial Hospital Deserts NetApp and VMware for Gridstore

Providing fast access to patient records

Gridstore, Inc. announced that Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend Nebraska, selected as one of the top 20 critical access hospitals in the nation has chosen Gridstore to provide its storage technology allowing them to utilize a modern technology solution within a community hospital’s budget.

Warren Memorial Hospital

Included in its vision of the future is Warren Memorial Hospital’s drive to acquire technology in order to provide the optimum healthcare experience for every patient. In its modernization efforts, it decided that prohibitively high licensing fees were reason enough for it to search for an alternative to its NetApp and VMware environment.

CIO Matt Scott notes that Gridstore appeared at the right time and provided a potential solution to the hospital’s need for improved performance and scalability as well as reduced acquisition and maintenance costs.

Warren Memorial is a small, critical access hospital. We licensed VMware and purchased NetApp, and the annual fees were huge, with TCO up to $50K per year – and we did not need that expense. It was time to consider other options. We briefly looked at HP and EMC, and then Gridstore came calling,” Scott, said.

Warren Memorial Hospital made the move away from VMware to Hyper-V with a key goal of optimizing I/Os on VMs. Its new platform includes Microsoft System Center managing Hyper-V servers clustered together with three Gridstore Performance Nodes for storage in a company-wide installation, supporting all of the IT functions within the hospital.

Our primary gain is performance improvements,” said Scott. “We are at wire speed and running in real time since the Gridstore installation. Our SQL database and exchange servers are performing much better. It used to take three to five minutes for our staff to log in, now the same function takes 30s at most. Gridstore is easy to manage and is way simpler than NetApp. By being able to establish and manage QoS on our most critical apps, we can now spend less time with technology and more time treating our patients, which is of utmost importance to us.

Warren Memorial Hospital realized benefits in implementing Gridstore:

  • It has realized a 6-10X improvement in performance with a 2/3 reduction in cost.
  • 40 virtual servers and 30 to 40 desktops that are up and ready to use on demand
  • Digital X-Rays are available and electronically stored on site, rather than archived
  • The hospital is in compliance with Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs for the ‘meaningful use’ of certified technology to improve patient care.

Scott added: “Storage is like a closet, eventually you are going to fill it up and need more space. We can see how it will be straightforward to expand the Gridstore grid here at Warren Memorial in the future. We would not hesitate to add more Gridstore as we need it.

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