CASE STUDY
NOT HAVING TO FOCUS ON STORAGE HAS
ALLOWED US TO SHIFT OUR PRIORITIES
FROM FIREFIGHTING TO SERVICE
EXCELLENCE AND A MORE PROACTIVE
APPROACH TO IT.
working in shifts around the clock, leading
to significant efficiency gains. That has a
huge impact on St. Joseph’s Health – from
its doctors and nurses to its administrative
staff to patients.
“In healthcare, every second counts,” said
Fasolo. “With Pure Storage, we’re saving
clinicians and those who support them a lot
of time over the course of a day so they can
focus on delivering the best patient care.”
Backups that previously took four days to
complete are now finished in two hours.
That keeps critical data safe and avoids
any negative performance impact on the
hospital. Plus, Pure enables snapshots
every 15 minutes, with zero impact on
crucial systems. That ensures the team
can perform point-of-time recovery with
minimal data loss in the event of a disaster
– always able to recover data from within
15 minutes prior.
“Just recently, we had a business analytics
database modified and had to restore the
environment to correct the change,” said
Fasolo. “We were able to restore with no more
than a few minutes’ worth of lost coding.
“The difference in performance between
our legacy storage and Pure Storage are
night and day.
“Going from 26 milliseconds average
latency to sub-millisecond latency,
our backups now happen without any
performance impact. Not having to
focus on storage has allowed us to shift
our priorities from firefighting to service
excellence and a more proactive approach
to IT.”
In addition, St. Joseph’s gained greater
business resilience by linking two
geographic locations in an active cluster
architecture. If there is an outage in one
data center, the other data center will
keep systems running seamlessly. The
redundancy across multiple locations
creates a true active-active solution.
All those performance gains come at a
much lower management cost. “Before, we
were robbing performance from one system
to provide it to another, moving workloads
around to solve performance issues,” said
Fasolo. “Now, it takes less work to keep
everything running because the Pure
environment is self-sustaining.”
Not only has the Pure technology eliminated
outages, it costs less and has a smaller
footprint. Fasolo was able to consolidate four
racks of storage into a three-unit (3U) system.
Cloud-ready storage foundation
brings health and longevity
With Pure, Fasolo can start moving
workloads to the cloud – a cost-effective
way to archive data for compliance
purposes. As it expands its on-premise
workloads, the company can snap
seamlessly into the cloud. And Fasolo can
accommodate more requests from across
the organization.
For example, several healthcare applications
are starting to incorporate analytics
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