Customer Case Study
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
10/15/2009
Medical Center Reduces Costs, Increases Application Availability with Virtualization
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is a hospital and teaching facility based in New Hampshire. To reduce its server footprint, more efficiently manage its Red Hat Linux and Windows virtualized machines, and realize an anticipated cost savings of $325,000 annually, DHMC deployed the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V™ technology.
Industry: Healthcare Providers
Size: Large, 10000 employees
Country: US  US

Customer Profile
http://www.dhmc.org/
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is New Hampshire's only academic medical center, with 10,000 employees working in four locations. DHMC offers a full spectrum of care and education.
Business Situation
DHMC had already trimmed server costs using virtualization but wanted to eliminate even more servers, further reduce costs, and move its most demanding and highly available applications to a virtual environment.
Solution
DHMC implemented the Windows Server® 2008 operating system with Hyper-V™ technology and manages its virtualization environment with Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
Benefit
  • Servers reduced by 75 percent
  • Ability to virtualize more applications
  • High availability to meet service levels
  • Easier server management
Software
  • Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
  • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Quote
"We expect to consolidate an additional 75 servers using Hyper-V, which will lead to a cost savings of more than $325,000 annually. This savings comes from a per-server savings of $4,300: $1,400 from lower maintenance costs; $1,600 from reductions in data center power, cooling, and space; and $1,300 from hardware savings."
Robert McShinsky Senior Systems Administrator, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center