Case Study: Sentara achieves 3x faster EHR performance and reduced ETL downtime with Silk

Sentara gets 3x faster EHR performance and cuts ETL downtime to 15 minutes with Silk

Sentara Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, needed to migrate its large and complex electronic health record (EHR) workloads to Microsoft Azure. Their challenge was that the native Azure solution did not provide the required performance and their SQL reporting engine was experiencing 7-10 hours of nightly downtime during its ETL process. They also needed to control rising cloud costs.

The solution was implemented using Silk on Azure. Silk provided the ultra-fast performance needed for the EHR workloads, enabling a simple lift-and-shift migration. With Silk's snapshot capabilities, Sentara reduced its ETL downtime to just 15 minutes. The results included 3x faster performance, a 20% reduction in cloud costs due to data compression, and near 24/7 data access for users.

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