Case Study: St. John's Riverside Hospital achieves instant backups, 46:1 data efficiency, and reduced costs with HPE SimpliVity

St. John’s Riverside Hospital gains flexibility through HPE SimpliVity

St. John’s Riverside Hospital, a nearly 150‑year‑old healthcare provider in Yonkers serving over 100,000 patient visits a year, relied on a small IT team of 17 to run dozens of mission‑critical applications. Their seven‑year‑old infrastructure was running out of capacity (40 TB), servers were oversubscribed preventing failover, backups had RPOs of 8–10 hours and lengthy RTOs, and key systems like the radiology PACS needed virtualization and greater agility — all driving a need for a cost‑effective technology refresh and better data protection.

The hospital deployed a five‑node HPE SimpliVity federation integrated with VMware vCenter, migrating systems in under two weeks. The hyperconverged solution delivered a ~50% performance uplift, instant backups with much improved RPO/RTO, and dramatic data efficiency (46:1 after two months, 106:1 after six), allowing retention to grow from 3 months to at least 2 years. It also consolidated five racks to two, cut space/power/cooling costs, simplified management via a single pane of glass, and enabled scalable, cloud‑economics benefits.

St. John's Riverside Hospital

Nelson Carreira

Director of Servers and Desktops