Case Study: Nation’s Largest Health Insurance Company achieves over 50% cost reduction and scalable data center modernization with Pomeroy

Nation’s Largest Health Insurance Company - Customer Case Study

Nation’s Largest Health Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania-based not-for-profit Blue Cross–Blue Shield licensee serving millions of members and employing roughly 20,000 people, faced critical data center scaling problems after rapid growth and acquisitions. Their legacy NAS and SAN environments across multiple cities were at capacity, relied on tape-based backups, and included end-of-life servers with no budget for replacements. The customer engaged Pomeroy, building on a long-standing relationship for end-user and infrastructure services, to address storage, server and disaster-recovery shortfalls.

Pomeroy implemented a consolidated disk storage array (combining NAS and SAN), increased usable capacity from 125 TB to 200 TB, replaced tape backup with disk-based replication and deduplication, and brokered resale of legacy hardware to offset costs. The Pomeroy solution eliminated $500,000 in OpEx to offset CapEx, generated roughly $65,000 in resale credits to fund new servers, cut overall costs by more than 50%, reduced TCO by 17%, increased scalability by 40%, improved data security by ~30%, and reduced operational staffing from three FTEs to one.