Case Study: Austin Radiological Association achieves scalable cloud storage and 50% cost reduction with Nasuni

Medical Imaging Leader Gains More Scalable Storage and Reduces Costs 50% with Nasuni

Austin Radiological Association (ARA) is an outpatient imaging provider with 17 centers in Central Texas that supports 20 hospitals and stores nearly 1 million digital studies annually, adding over 900,000 exams each year. Rapidly growing image volumes and file sizes (for example, 3D mammography files ~20× larger than 2D), strict retention rules, unpredictable capacity needs and slow, costly hardware migrations made traditional on-prem file storage unsustainable.

ARA deployed Nasuni UniFS with Microsoft Azure object storage and Nasuni edge appliances at each office to provide local, LAN‑speed access with cloud‑scale capacity. The hybrid solution removed the need for a $1.3M capital purchase, cut storage costs roughly 40–50% over three years (about $1.2–1.3M saved in year one), enabled same‑day capacity expansion, reduced cloud storage needs through 60% deduplication/compression, and delivered built‑in backup/DR, encryption, and simpler management for HIPAA compliance.

Austin Radiological Association

Terrence Jones

Cloud Engineer