Case Study: University Hospital of Würzburg (UKW) speeds SAP migration and boosts performance 2-5X with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory

Leading Hospital, Ukw, Speeds Sap Migration With Fusion Iomemory Solutions

The University Hospital of Würzburg, a large academic medical center serving 1.5 million people, relied on a 24/7 SAP-based ERP system used by thousands of clinicians and staff. Facing a major SAP and Oracle upgrade, the IT team needed much faster response times for a growing user base, rock‑solid reliability for mission‑critical operations, lower capital costs, and full OEM support.

They moved the SAP/Oracle environment off a Fibre Channel SAN onto a SanDisk Fusion ioMemory™ flash solution in virtualized DataCore SANsymphony‑V servers, mirroring data on ioDrive and ioDrive Duo cards and upgrading SAP and Oracle in the process. Migration time fell from an estimated 38 hours to 8 hours (downtime cut to 1h45m), overall performance improved 2–5× (with specific operations accelerating as much as 8×), capital costs dropped about 33%, and the footprint consolidated nearly 6:1 — delivering enterprise performance on commodity hardware with full vendor support.

UKW

Klaus Stärk

Head of IT Systems