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Objective:

Indiana University’s School of Medicine needed to 

reduce the total cost of ownership, administration and 

management of its IT systems, while achieving faster 

time-to-delivery of new services for its 

academic community

Approach:

The Information Systems & Technology Management 

department opted for server virtualization, and 

standardized on HP ProLiant BladeSystem server blades 

running VMware software, HP StorageWorks 

Continuous Access for real-time data replication, and 

HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO2) for remote management

IT improvements:

• 40% reduction in server administration time

• 75% reduction in server deployment time

• 97% reduction in time to launch services

• 66% reduction in server footprint

Business benefits:

• Improved responsiveness to users’ requests,           

   enabling researchers to better track project status

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

• Better utilization of IT assets and resources

“Today, when somebody comes to me and asks for a new server to do XYZ, 

I can guarantee that we can we can give them that server very quickly. We 

just slide that server in, go back to the office, configure it, and they’re up and 

running. That is invaluable

.

”

– Scott Hemmerlein, systems administrator, Information Systems & Technology Management,

   Indiana University School of Medicine

Medical school formulates virtual backbone with HP Bladesystem 

Indiana University School of Medicine delivers research efficiencies, makes IT budgets go farther 

with end-to-end virtualization solution

HP customer case study: Indiana University School of Medicine

Industry: Higher Education

Support for a dynamic research environment 

A problem familiar to all universities is balancing an ever-

growing list of technology requests, from a wide range of 

users, against limited funding and equipment. That was 

the case with the Information Systems & Technology 

Management (ISTM) department at the Indiana University 

School of Medicine in Indianapolis. ISTM provides tech 

support for the medical school’s administrative, teaching 

and research facilities.