In this article:
- Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons (RACS) targets saving AU$2.1 million over five
years and up to 21,000 kWh annually - Project
migration finishes ahead of licensing renewal with no
interruption to RACS’s members
HPE (NYSE: HPE)
today announced that the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons (RACS) has moved its remaining on-premises
workloads to HPE Private Cloud. The move is
part of a strategic technology transformation to improve
technical capacity, simplify operations and manage long-term
IT expenditure with HPE Private Cloud managed through the
GreenLake cloud platform.
The new HPE Private Cloud
PC3000 environment has reduced RACS’s annual
virtualisation licensing costs by up to 70% and halved its
physical server count from eight to four, with estimated
annual energy savings of up to 21,000 kWh. Across its
on-premises environment and disaster recovery site, the
college expects to save about AU$2.1 million over five years
as its technology roadmap progresses.
For the
not-for-profit organisation, these efficiencies support its
mission to train, educate and admit surgeons to fellowship
across Australia and New Zealand. By reducing the resources
required to run core infrastructure, RACS aims to direct
more of its technology capacity towards improving the
experience of members and trainees.
Aligning
infrastructure with a changing technology estate
RACS
began evaluating alternatives after changes to its
virtualisation licensing increased its proposed renewal cost
by approximately 300% and required a three-year upfront
payment. By modernising its ageing infrastructure, RACS
improved performance and reduced its hardware footprint,
core count, and licensing costs.
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RACS selected
GreenLake for its platform maturity, scalability, cost
efficiency, cloud-like management and HPE support. The new
PC3000 environment is a turnkey infrastructure solution that
combines HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, HPE ProLiant Compute
DL360 Gen12 Servers, and HPE Networking switches.
Deduplication delivered 2:1 data reduction, bringing the
storage volume down from 70 TB to approximately 35
TB.
RACS also retired redundant development
environments, reducing the number of systems its team must
patch, maintain, and secure. Its broader roadmap includes
disaster recovery optimisation and more cost-effective cloud
storage tiers, with the potential to reduce ongoing hosting
and infrastructure costs and contribute further
savings.
“By the end of the five-year term, we
expect to save about AU$2.1 million across our on-premises
environment and disaster recovery site,” said Andreas
Diamanti, chief information officer, Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons. “The new environment gives us the
scalability and cost efficiency we need, with a cloud-like
experience that is easier for our team to manage. By
spending less time and money maintaining infrastructure, we
can focus more of our resources on improving the experience
for our members.”
Modernising without interrupting
member services
The migration, facilitated by HPE
Services and Champions of Change, was completed without
disruption for members. Continuity is essential for RACS’s
high-stakes surgical examinations, with examination systems
monitored in real time during exam periods. HPE Private
Cloud also supports systems that record surgical training
activity and information required for the college’s audit
and accreditation responsibilities.
“Our role was to
give RACS confidence that the decision was based on a
rigorous assessment of what would best serve the
organisation over the long term,” said Alex Danobrega,
account director, Champions of Change. “We invested
hundreds of hours researching the market, analysing the
options and testing them against RACS’s technology,
security, compliance and commercial requirements. HPE
emerged as the clear choice. The breadth across compute,
storage and networking, together with GreenLake, provides
RACS with a comprehensive platform.”
Champions of
Change worked closely with RACS and HPE to evaluate market
options and develop a detailed strategy and fully validated
technical recommendation for the right-sized environment.
The migration was delivered on schedule ahead of the
licensing renewal.
“RACS has made a deliberate
choice to modernise around the needs of its members, not
simply replace ageing infrastructure,” said Chris Weber,
vice president and managing director, South Pacific, HPE.
“Working with Champions of Change, we helped the college
turn a complex technology decision into a carefully planned
transformation, delivered without disrupting the services
its community relies on. By reducing the cost and effort of
running core systems while retaining room to grow, RACS
creates more capacity to invest in the digital experiences
that support surgeons throughout their careers.”
A
flexible foundation for the next stage of digital
services
RACS is developing its approach to AI and
other digital services that reduce friction for members.
GreenLake gives the college a locally managed infrastructure
option as it considers where future workloads should run,
subject to governance, security and approval
requirements.
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