Valley Health System Chooses Violin Memory All Flash Array

Violin Memory, Inc. announced that its All Flash Array solutions, including the Violin Flash Storage Platform (FSP), have been selected by Valley Health System, Inc. – a regional healthcare system serving residents in northern New Jersey and southern New York – to create a data center infrastructure with the performance and scalability required to meet the demands of the healthcare industry’s electronic health record (EHR) systems.

“With the rapid growth of our Meditech EHR system, Valley Health was in need of scalable and high-performing all flash storage solutions that could keep up with the escalating demands placed on our data center,” said Eric Carey, CIO, Valley Health System. “Using Violin All Flash Storage solutions, we are able to reach our growth targets while continuing to provide outstanding service to our community.“

Valley Health initially required an all-flash solution that provided an equal balance of value, performance and capacity to upgrade its mission-critical systems for an expansion. Park Place International, LLC, a provider of technology solutions for healthcare, integrated the Meditech EHR system with Violin flash storage solutions to create a data center architecture built to handle existing and future demands. After seeing immediate improvements in their records system’s performance, Valley Health then selected the Violin 7300 FSP to manage additional workloads commonly found in healthcare environments, including virtualized server infrastructure an virtual desktops.

“Valley Health had already selected Violin All Flash Storage platforms as a high performance, reliable solution for their mission-critical workloads,” said James Fitzgerald, EVP, Park Place International. “We were able to bring our focused expertise in healthcare storage management to optimize scalability, performance, and recoverability, meeting the customer’s objectives, and ultimately exceeding expectations.“

The Violin 7300 FSP is an all-flash storage system that achieves the consolidation and simplification of next generation data center workloads by delivering the highest performance storage at the low CAPEX and OPEX. Delivering up to 217TB of effective capacity in three rack units at a data reduction rate of 6:1, the 7300 FSP supports mixed and multiple workload environments across a range of primary storage requirements.

“EHR applications dramatically improve healthcare providers’ delivery of higher quality care. As these applications grow in size, so too do the demands on the storage systems that support them. Valley Health System, Meditech, Park Place, and Violin partnered to create robust, best-in-class solutions ideally suited for such demanding environments,” said Amy D. Love, CMO, Violin Memory.