Case Study: ACI Specialty Benefits achieves support for 300% annual growth and a 60% data center TCO reduction with VMware vSAN

ACI Specialty Benefits Uses Vmware Technologies to Gain Market Share and Support 300% Annual Growth

ACI Specialty Benefits, a global benefits provider covering over 12 million lives, faced roughly 300% annual digital growth from rapid acquisitions and massive data inflows from wearable medical devices. To modernize its data center, meet HIPAA/PCI/ISO requirements across geographies, and rapidly onboard acquired companies, ACI partnered with VMware vSAN and other VMware technologies to build a software-defined, hyper‑converged private cloud.

Using VMware vSAN 6.5 alongside VMware vSphere, NSX and vRealize Automation, ACI implemented all‑flash storage, hypervisor‑level encryption, micro‑segmentation and automated provisioning. The VMware vSAN–based solution delivered measurable impact: 35% better performance, 99.999% availability, 60% reduction in data center TCO, 20% shorter audit times, 20–30% improved developer efficiency, and the ability to bring acquisitions into secure virtual environments in days.

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Ryan Fay

Chief Information Officer