Case Study: Sentara Healthcare achieves sub-millisecond response times and life‑saving edge modernization with Dell Technologies

Modernizing IT at the Edge Saves the Seconds that Save Lives

Sentara Healthcare, a large regional not-for-profit system, partnered with Dell Technologies to modernize aging infrastructure and extend advanced compute from the data center to the edge. Sentara’s challenge was to deploy a hybrid multi‑cloud, edge-capable environment that could support latency‑sensitive applications like Epic Hyperspace, reduce hospital footprint, and shave critical seconds off care delivery to improve patient outcomes.

Dell Technologies implemented Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes and PowerEdge servers (R640, R740, R940) with VMware vSAN, managed via Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise and iDRAC, to bring fast compute to the edge. The deployment delivered sub‑millisecond response times, cut a typical 15‑hour job to 2 hours, eliminated daily support calls, supports 13,000–15,000 Epic Hyperspace users on a five‑block pod, and generated millions in IT efficiencies and multi‑million‑dollar cost reductions.

Sentara Healthcare

Matt Douglas

Chief Enterprise Architect