Case Study: RSL Care achieves 5x performance and major cost and capacity savings with HPE Nimble Storage

RSL Care Gains Capacity and Performance with Nimble Storage Deployment

RSL Care is one of Australia’s largest not‑for‑profit providers of retirement living and aged services, operating 12 homes and 29 communities across Queensland and New South Wales. Rapid data growth left its legacy storage unable to meet demand—capacity doubled in 18 months, SQL performance lagged, and expensive flash add-ons proved incompatible and ineffective.

RSL Care validated and deployed two Nimble CS460G arrays (after a four‑day proof‑of‑concept) and migrated data with no downtime. The result was a fivefold performance boost (IOPS from ~12,000 to up to 60,000), improved SharePoint responsiveness, minimal training overhead, immediate savings of over $100,000 in year one and projected hundreds of thousands over time, plus planned consolidation from 36U to 6U of rack space.

RSL Care

Ian Youngson

IT Operations Manager