Case Study: William Beaumont Hospitals Boost Storage Utilization >50% With NetApp Data ONTAP 7G Technologies

Leverage NetApp Data ONTAP 7G Technologies to Consolidate Storage and Improve Effi ciency Beaumont's IT team pulled all its applications off dedicated NetApp systems and put them onto a high-performance NetApp storage cluster. Carruthers and the team deployed NetApp Data ONTAP 7G software with FlexVol technology, which offered the type of dynamic provisioning, fl exibility, and data-management granularity that was needed for Beaumont Hospitals' new and improved IT infrastructure. As a result of the software update, Beaumont con-solidated its storage from nine NetApp systems to three NetApp storage clusters and one NetApp NearStore® system.

50% Increase in Utilization, Rapid Backup/Recovery, Reduced Costs NetApp FlexVol technology provides a fl exible infrastructure that allows Beaumont Hospitals to improve their operational effi ciencies by enabling database administrators to grow and shrink data volumes on-the-fl y across groups—without any downtime or disruption to users.

Administrators can quickly react to changing needs of the hospital while maintaining a higher utilization of the infrastructure. Prior to the software migration, Beaumont's storage utilization was between 43% and 50%. After the upgrade to Data ONTAP 7G, utilization rose to 76%, refl ecting a more than 50% increase in overall utilization