While many wish to prevent illness and combat health issues, Healthways is proactively promoting well-being through their commitment to "making the world a healthier place-one individual at a time." Based in Franklin, Tennessee, Healthways has been operating for over 30 years in delivering health expertise to organizations and reducing health-related costs.

Customers use a web-based technology platform from Healthways calledEmbraceto collaborate and manage personalized health support. Since beginning, the number of users accessing Embrace has increased significantly -which means that Healthways must keep up with the demand. Rather than attempt to continue supporting their legacy infrastructure, Healthways decided to use Cisco? Technology to reinforce their infrastructure and get four times the capacity -therefore allowing access and providing services for all 10 million users.

In addition, by implementing the Cisco Unified Computing System? (UCS), based on Intel? Xeon? processors, to increase capacity and strengthen the data center's architecture, Embrace has realized an 18-20 percent reduction in power and cooling costs and a 20 percent decrease in hardware and licensing costs.

To learn more about their newly-found IT advantages, read Healthways' story from Unleashing IT.