Case Study: Sentara Healthcare achieves 3x faster EHR performance with Silk Software

Sentara Healthcare speeds EHR workloads 3x with Silk Software

Sentara Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, faced performance challenges after moving its electronic health record (EHR) workloads to Microsoft Azure. Their existing solution, Azure NetApp Files, did not provide the necessary speed for their EHR system, and a nightly ETL process was causing 7-10 hours of downtime for their SQL reporting database. They turned to the vendor Silk to find a solution that would deliver faster performance and reduce this downtime.

Silk implemented its software-defined cloud storage platform on Azure, enabling a lift-and-shift migration of Sentara's complex workloads. The solution provided 3x faster performance than native cloud storage alone. Silk's snapshot capabilities allowed Sentara to create copies of the database for reporting during the ETL process, slashing downtime from over 7 hours to just 15 minutes. Additionally, Silk's data compression helped Sentara reduce its Azure resource usage, lowering cloud costs by 20%.

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