Case Study: Baystate Health cuts $3.5M in data-center costs and boosts patient care with VMware vSAN

VMware Hyper-Converged Technology Helps Baystate Health Provide a Higher Level of Care While Cutting IT Expenses

Baystate Health, a large New England healthcare system serving over one million patients and employing 12,000 people, faced rapidly growing healthcare data, siloed infrastructure, and the high capital and operational costs of building a new data center. To modernize its IT and enable mobile clinicians, Baystate turned to VMware vSAN (alongside VMware vSphere and VMware Horizon) to build a hyperconverged, software-defined data center and deploy a large virtual desktop infrastructure.

Using VMware vSAN-based hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware Horizon for more than 10,000 virtual desktops, Baystate consolidated about 2 PB of data across three datacenters into roughly 40 storage blades (cutting real estate by 10:1), avoided about $3.5 million in data-center construction costs, and eliminated the need to maintain 12,000 individual PCs. VMware vSAN delivered horizontal scalability instead of costly SAN refreshes, reduced service-provisioning time from weeks to hours, improved availability and HIPAA security posture, and even allowed Baystate to monetize excess capacity.

Baystate Health

Joel Vengco

Chief Information Officer