Case Study: BluePearl Veterinary Partners achieves rapid deployments, reduced IT headcount, and scalable performance with Cisco HyperFlex

Blue Pearl modernizes its data center with end-to-end Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged platform

BluePearl Veterinary Partners, a U.S. veterinary specialty and emergency care network with 3,000 employees and 57 locations, faced rapid growth—doubling in two years—and needed healthcare-grade performance, high availability, and simpler operations to support expansion. After finding its previous shared infrastructure hard to scale and full of management silos, BluePearl selected the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged platform to deliver an all-in-one, data-center-ready solution with single-pane-of-glass management.

Cisco HyperFlex unified compute, storage, and networking, was configured in one business day (80% faster than the prior solution), and enabled BluePearl to keep IT headcount flat—avoiding three senior hires—while onboarding sites faster. The rollout improved performance for critical apps (Cornerstone saw response lag drop from 2–6 seconds to essentially zero), reduced management requirements by three full-time equivalents, and provided scalable, centrally managed infrastructure for future growth.

BluePearl Veterinary Partners

Derek DePasture

Senior Network Engineer