Riverview Hospital Improves Patient Database Response Time

Pure
Storage, Inc. announced that Riverview
Hospital in Noblesville, IN, has deployed the Pure Storage FlashArray to
improve patient database response time and accelerate VDI sessions for its
1,200 employees.

The FlashArray has enabled Riverview to accelerate its most
performance-sensitive application used by hundreds of its physicians and nurses
across 20 facilities. The improvement in the performance of database
applications and virtual desktops has increased the
speed of accessing patient data and enhanced the quality of service that
doctors provide to each patient.

As the largest employer in its region,
Riverview treats nearly 300,000 patients a year. The hospital’s IT organization
is a progressive team that has embraced virtualized databases as well as VDI.
Riverview is currently in its second year of a VMware View deployment, and
approximately 500 of its employees use virtual desktops in their normal
workflow.

Riverview’s previous storage solution, an
IBM V7000 hybrid storage array, could not meet the performance demands of
virtual desktops and tier 1 database applications, which prompted the IT team
to look for a new solution. Riverview chose the FlashArray to
replace its legacy hybrid-disk solution based on the FlashArray’s ability to
outperform its existing auto-tiering SAN, by reducing latency and leveling
performance spikes for both its SQL and VDI workloads.

Benefits
of Riverview’s Pure Storage FlashArray Include:

• Migrated 1.5TB EHR SQL VM to FlashArray and added 500 virtual desktops to same
  array with performance to spare
• Achieved 8-to-1 data reduction with hundreds of persistent virtual desktops
• Increased virtualized SQL database IO/s by 2X and reduced latency from 2 to 8ms
  down to 0.5ms
• Peak transactions per second tripled and IO/s increased by 50%

"We
wanted to have the fastest possible infrastructure to support our EHR
application and VMware View infrastructure," said Jason Pearce,
enterprise architect, Riverview Hospital. "Our search for the ideal end-to-end flash-based storage solution led us
to the Pure Storage FlashArray. We’ve been extremely pleased with the
performance enhancements that the FlashArray has provided, as well as Pure
Storage’s superior customer support. Their openness and responsiveness gave us
confidence that Pure cares deeply about its customers, which is why we trust
Pure Storage to run our most important and performance-intensive resources."

"The
Pure Storage FlashArray provides the best all-flash experience for
organizations like Riverview Hospital that need to accelerate and support
virtual desktops deployments, as well as the high performance necessary for
organizations that rely on tier 1 database applications," said Matt
Kixmoeller, VP products, Pure Storage. "With the FlashArray, Pure Storage delivers the benefits of 100% flash
to support the deployment of VDI for higher security, lower administration
costs, and a better end-user experience; at a truly unprecedented price-point."