FEATURE : STORAGE SOLUTIONS
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 .
“ 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
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