Barry Thomas

Systems Engineer, Graves Gilbert Clinic

The Graves-Gilbert Clinic runs many typical office applications, but the IT staff has the additional challenge of managing a wealth of critical patient information, such as lab results, electronic images and patient records. Systems Engineer, Barry Thomas, saw the rapid expansion of electronic information quickly outgrow the clinic’s previous SAN. Graves turned to Dell Compellent for its single-system solution, ease-of use and efficiency. The clinic immediately saw a 50% return on disk utilization.

Key Reasons for Selecting Dell Compellent

• Provision unlimited volumes in seconds from a single, shared pool without restrictions
• Eliminate capacity planning and downtime associated with volume expansion and resizing
• Automatically classify and migrate data at the block level to the ideal tier of storage
• Mix drive types, capacities and speeds without lowest common denominator penalties
• Easily integrate new storage technologies without replacing existing hardware and software
• Perform even advanced tasks including snapshots and replications in less than 10 minutes
• Managing actual instead of allocated disk space saves time on repetitive disk operations
• Recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds