MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Aug. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent
all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced
that North York General Hospital (NYGH), one of Canada's leading medical facilities, has
deployed Pure Storage to host all of its mission-critical
applications and patient data. The hospital hosts its Cerner
electronic health record (EHR) applications on Pure Storage
all-flash arrays.
Pure Storage provides the resiliency, security and high
performance that improves clinician productivity and increases the
time devoted to patient care, while maximizing the long-term impact
of the hospital's investment in IT infrastructure.
"We wanted a data platform that would give our clinicians,
back-office staff and other end-users exceptional response time
when accessing critical applications and data. The same
solution also had to provide – at no additional cost - essential
features like data compression, de-duplication and snapshots," said
Sumon Acharjee, Chief Information
Officer, North York General Hospital. "After looking at all-flash
offerings from several vendors, the comprehensive feature set,
price point and cost-benefit of Pure Storage proved to deliver
significant competitive advantages."
As part of Canada's
government-run healthcare system, NYGH refreshes its IT
infrastructure only once every seven years due to highly controlled
funding. That made the Evergreen™ Storage program from Pure
especially attractive. The Evergreen program enables storage that
is deployed once and upgraded as needed, for a decade or
more. Components can be mixed and matched – all online and
without performance disruption – to keep storage dense, efficient
and modern.
"Evergreen is a great business model. When you have a seven-year
refresh cycle, it's very valuable to know your maintenance costs
for the life of the product," said Acharjee. "Cerner is deployed in
every in-patient area of the hospital. It is a mission-critical
system that needs to have maximum performance, resiliency and
uptime. Pure Storage delivers on all three of those requirements,
while saving us money now and long into the future."
To underscore the cost-effectiveness of its all-flash storage
solution, eliminating just two years of the maintenance fees for
NYGH's legacy spinning-disk storage system paid for the acquisition
of the Pure system.
The impact of improved storage performance is felt across
multiple areas of the hospital. Most important is the effect on
physicians and other clinicians, who now spend less time waiting
for files, reports and other critical data, thanks to 10-20%
improvements in IO performance and consistent sub-millisecond
latencies. Business operations see positive outcomes, as well. "One
of the biggest benefits we've seen from the Pure system is the
ability to generate reports more efficiently," Acharjee noted. "Our
business intelligence decision-support team does a lot of slicing
and dicing of this data, and the improved processing we now enjoy
allows them to generate a lot more business insight in a short
amount of time." Installing the Pure arrays also results in lower
operating costs, Acharjee added, "because we can go to our co-lo
facility when we renegotiate our contract and show them how little
the footprint and energy costs of the Pure array will be."
"As a HIMSS Stage 6 healthcare organization, North York General
Hospital is a recognized leader in applying advanced technology for
the improvement of patient care," said Vik
Nagjee, VP and CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Pure
Storage. "NYGH's decision to migrate their entire Cerner
environment to our all-flash storage solution marks another
milestone for Pure in the healthcare industry. More importantly, we
recognize that everyone benefits when clinicians see improvements
in the patient-care environment and hospital administrators see
long-term savings in costs."
About North York General Hospital
North York General Hospital, affiliated with the University
of Toronto, is one
of Canada's leading community academic hospitals. We
offer our culturally diverse community a wide range of acute care,
ambulatory and long-term care services across three sites. Through
partnerships, collaboration and academic endeavours, we seek to set
new standards for patient- and family-centred care. Working
together with our patients and their families, we are making a
world of difference.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps companies push the boundaries of
what's possible. Pure's end-to-end data platform - including
FlashArray, FlashBlade and our converged offering with Cisco,
FlashStack – is powered by innovative software that's
cloud-connected for management from anywhere on a mobile device and
supported by the Evergreen business model. The company's all-flash
based technology, combined with its customer-friendly business
model, drives business and IT transformation with solutions that
are effortless, efficient and evergreen. With Pure's industry
leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.7, Pure customers are
some of the happiest in the world, and include organizations of all
sizes, across an ever-expanding range of industries.
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