MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure
Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage
as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced Atlantic
Health System (AHS) standardized on Pure Storage solutions to
ensure the high-performance of its mission-critical applications,
including its Epic electronic health record (EHR) system, as well
as to meet its growing back-up and rapid restore requirements. This
implementation cut the demands on IT staff for storage management
and is expected to save AHS more than $1
million over six years – funds that can be applied for
strategic investment that further elevates care.
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AHS is a non-profit New Jersey
organization with five hospitals, more than 1,600 beds,
relationships with thousands of practitioners statewide and
award-winning programs across numerous fields. The IT team works to
ensure that physicians and care providers have instant access to
the information they need, so they can spend more time focused on
patients and not worry about technology.
When AHS made the decision to move to Epic for its EHR needs,
the IT staff took the opportunity to evaluate its data foundation –
including latency and ability to scale. While AHS planned to first
deploy Epic in out-patient environments, the intent was to expand
its use to in-patient settings. This move would increase the number
of end-users from less than 1,000 to approximately 16,000. AHS
needed a data foundation that could scale to meet that demand
without unnecessary costs, interruptions or management complexity.
After initially evaluating its incumbent storage vendor, AHS chose
Pure Storage.
"Performance was paramount in our evaluation process. Pure
Storage also stood above the crowd with several other benefits as
well – including simplicity of deployment and management,
scalability, flexibility, and Pure's Evergreen™ Storage model.
These factors combined made Pure the clear choice," said
Pat Zinno, Director of
Infrastructure Services and Support for AHS.
Since installing Pure FlashArrays to support its Epic
environment, AHS has achieved 100% availability. Epic sets a
threshold for acceptable storage bandwidth of 1,500Mbs for reads
and 300Mbs for writes. In pre-production testing of Pure arrays on
a subset of hospital operations, performance results reached
3,000Mbs (reads) and 600Mbs (writes), with latencies also below
Epic thresholds. These performance levels have remained constant
even as AHS continues to add new users and workloads.
In addition, over a two-year period, AHS grew the number of
users on its Citrix XenApp infrastructure running on Pure arrays
from less than 1,000 to around 16,000, while maintaining
performance across the entire platform, so that the user experience
stayed consistent the entire time. Today, that number is close to
20,000, with around 7,000 concurrent users at any one time.
Pure's impact also extends to AHS' business critical functions,
such as the daily ETL process that takes all the data from the
production Caché database and moves it into the Epic Clarity and
Caboodle databases, which are used to generate reports on all
aspects of the organization's operations. In the weeks before
deploying Pure, the nightly ETL averaged 5.5 hours. On the first
day running on Pure, ETL finished in 20 minutes – a reduction of
94%.
Pure's Evergreen™ Storage Improves Savings for
AHS
While improvements affecting patient care are the most important
benefits of the move to Pure Storage, cost savings also have been
significant. "For a time, storage was the number one capital and
operating expense we had, but with Pure we've now been able to not
only level out that spending, but reduce the maintenance costs,"
Zinno said.
"Atlantic Health System serves as a great example for hospital
systems looking to transform their business and patient experience
through a modern data infrastructure. High-performing, scalable
storage delivers critical health information to clinicians faster,
supporting AHS in its goal to deliver award-winning care as it
continues to grow," said Josh Gluck,
Vice President of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy at Pure
Storage. "Pure's Evergreen Storage program also saves AHS millions
of dollars in capital expense and operating expense, and the
flexible subscription model allows it to protect its investment for
the long term."
Pure's Evergreen Storage program provides customers
non-disruptive access to the latest technology without forklift
upgrades and with full preservation of investment in Pure
solutions. AHS estimates that the total cost ownership with Pure
will result in savings of more than $1.3
million over six years.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back.
Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations
to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service
model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing
enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data
to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the
infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer
satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's
ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the
world.
Pure Storage, the "P" Logo, Evergreen and FlashArray are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. All other
trademarks or names referenced in this document are the property of
their respective owners.
Analyst Recognition:
Pure Storage has been named a
Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage.
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