Case Study: Netgain achieves 60% faster performance and 52% storage savings with NetApp

Netgain Realizes Performance and Efficiency Gains with Northland Systems and NetApp

Netgain, a St. Cloud–based healthcare IT provider that accelerates physician practices and rural hospitals to meaningful use of EHRs via dedicated and private cloud services, needed to support diverse, evolving healthcare IT requirements. The company faced challenges around scalable storage for growth, and improving storage performance, availability, and flexibility to meet current and future customer needs.

Northland Systems implemented a NetApp unified storage architecture with VMware over NFS, multi‑tier performance, Flash Cache, deduplication, Snapshot/SnapMirror replication, and FlexClone capabilities. The solution delivered a 60% performance improvement, 52% space savings from deduplication, enabled disaster recovery and tiered service offerings, reduced costs, and supported 1,400 server workloads with 30%+ server growth without adding staff.

NetGain

Scott Baynes

Vice President of Technology