Case Study: University of Utah Health Care achieves $422,500 in savings and 30% improved storage utilization with NetApp V-Series

University of Utah Health Care Saves $422,500 While Improving Storage Utilization 30% with NetApp V-Series Customer

University of Utah Health Care, an academic medical center serving about 15,000 users, faced severe file‑server scalability and performance problems as data grew sixfold in two years. Their environment of 30 HP/NetWare file servers could not handle thousands of connections, causing long folder‑open times, a backlog of help‑desk tickets, poor storage utilization, and HIPAA/security concerns.

The organization replaced the 30 servers with two NetApp V‑Series controllers front‑ending its HDS SAN, and deployed NetApp Snapshot/SnapMirror and DataFort for backup, replication, and encryption. The new solution eliminated 30 file servers and saved $422,500, delivered zero downtime, improved storage utilization by 30%, saved about 750 administration hours per year, and doubled IT service‑level performance while simplifying management.

University of Utah Health Care

John Fagg

Manager Storage Management Services