Case Study: St. Dominic Hospital cuts storage costs and speeds image retrieval with Presidio and EMC Isilon

Award-winning healthcare provider manages explosive growth of Big Data with Isilon

St. Dominic Hospital, a 535-bed healthcare provider in Jackson, Mississippi, was managing 20 percent annual growth in Big Data while dealing with a complex multivendor storage environment that could no longer keep up with imaging and EMR demands. To address performance and scalability limits, the hospital worked with Presidio and EMC Isilon.

Presidio helped St. Dominic Hospital consolidate its legacy storage onto EMC Isilon across two clusters, supporting PACS and EMR archives with features including SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, SmartLock, and InsightIQ. The hospital improved image retrieval from six seconds to less than a second, achieved a 1000 percent increase in sustained I/O performance, enabled unlimited scalability with no downtime, and expects annual expenses to fall by 50 percent.

St. Dominic Hospital

Wendell W. Pinegar

Applications Supervisor