SAN Connect also provided storage pooling and simplified storage management. Blue Cross was able to benefit from storage consolidation while lowering its total cost of ownership. "It's wonderful. Our management is thrilled with the savings we achieved if we had not found the Vicom solution,” said Bob Venable, Enterprise Systems Manager for BlueCross.

Without Vicom, Blue Cross had two options. The first would be to continue to manage two systems(DAS and SAN) separately. Alternatively, the company could buy a new storage system that would replace the old DAS storage and enable DAS integration into the SAN.

According to Venable, "Vicom’s SAN Connect provided a simple solution that utilized our existing disk storage and brought tremendous savings. We didn't have to buy the new storage, which would have cost us several hundreds of thousands of dollars more. Deploying a new storage system would also require time and money to retrain the personnel, and managing two distinct storage systems would provide little, if any, improvement on operating costs."