Creative Solutions in Healthcare Brings Core Services to the Cloud and Cuts Costs by a Third With VMware vCloud Air

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 10, 2014) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced Creative Solutions in Healthcare, the largest owner and operator of skilled nursing facilities in the state of Texas, has cut costs by a third and accelerated compliant application deployment by adopting VMware vCloud® Air™. Creative Solutions in Healthcare delivered new healthcare and payroll applications to employees in less than two months while achieving their business objectives for compliance.

Based in Fort Worth, TX, Creative Solutions in Healthcare owns and operates more than 60 senior care and nursing home facilities and employs more than 6,000 staff, enhancing the quality of life for the seniors in their care facilities. Subject to a number of state and federal regulations such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) requirements, the company needed to deliver IT that enabled their network of nurses, assisted living providers and employees to provide better, more consistent care while efficiently maintaining security and compliance.

"VMware vCloud® Air™ exceeded expectations from a compliance point of view, and has brought tremendous value to our business by helping meet our goal of improved IT and end-user satisfaction, and enabling us to deploy solutions in a fraction of the time for a third of the cost," said Shawn Wiora, chief information officer, Creative Solutions in Healthcare. "VMware vCloud Air has been a total game changer for our company, and I think it's going to be a total game changer for the entire industry as it helps organizations drastically cut costs and open the door for IT resources to dedicate their focus to important areas, such as patient care and product innovation."

Creative Solutions in Healthcare's entire infrastructure was 100 percent physical with no virtual machines. With the Company's goals in mind, they decided to take on the initiative to go virtual, and at the same time go from on-premises to off-premises. Creative Solutions in Healthcare evaluated several cloud providers and chose to pilot Microsoft Azure.

"We immediately discovered that Microsoft Azure did not meet our expectations," said Wiora. "The support we received was very minimal, and we were actually way behind in terms of our timeline and budget."