Pure Storage has achieved High Comfort status for use with all Epic applications! If you’re already using Pure, you know how great it is, but now it’s official! If you’re not already using Pure, read on.
The Storage Product and Technology Status Guide is the tool Epic provides its customers and prospects who are selecting healthcare infrastructure – with the goal of keeping their critical clinical apps running at top performance, and ensuring proper resilience in customer data centers. Customers also have benchmarks they need to achieve to be placed on Epic’s “honor roll.”
The Storage Product and Technology Status Guide presents options for configuration and assigns high, medium, low and experimental “comfort levels” for leading storage products that may be under consideration for adoption by customers. “Comfort levels” are defined by evaluating the customer’s long term success with the product, as well as a rigorous process of testing and measuring customer adoption and feedback.
The product’s real-world operational benefits, the number of customers, and ability to meet application needs, as well as the vendor’s customer service organization are also taken into account. All of these things together help to determine where a technology company’s products will be recommended for use in a technology ecosystem, and at which comfort level. We were delighted to learn that Pure moved from medium to high comfort in the December 2017 edition of the guide!
Many of the largest U.S. healthcare systems are Pure customers. By the way, you should be aware that Pure is certified or field tested with most other EHRs, as well as clinical, business, IT and analytics apps. For more information or to speak to someone about how we can help improve your datacenter performance while lowering your TCO, shoot us an email at Epic@PureStorage.com or visit us online at www.purestorage.com/healthcare.
FlashStack Boosts Performance for Epic
In addition to achieving High Comfort status for all Epic applications, Pure Storage offers FlashStack™, a converged infrastructure solution developed in partnership with Cisco®. FlashStack combines computing, network, and storage components into a single, integrated hardware and software solution, providing healthcare organizations with a scalable and efficient platform for their Epic environments.
Key Benefits of FlashStack for Epic
- High Performance and Reliability: FlashStack delivers system latency of less than 1 millisecond and 99.9999% availability, ensuring rapid and reliable access to critical patient data.
- Cost Efficiency and Scalability: The solution offers industry-leading data-reduction capabilities, with most Epic implementations on Pure achieving more than a 1.5:1 data reduction ratio. This efficiency translates to lower storage costs and allows healthcare organizations to scale their Epic environments seamlessly.
- Simplified Maintenance: FlashStack’s plug-and-play deployment reduces installation time from days to minutes.Its converged architecture consumes up to 90% less power and physical space compared to other solutions, leading to significant operational savings.
- Enhanced Security: With SafeMode Snapshots, FlashStack creates immutable snapshots during full backups that cannot be altered, encrypted, or deleted. This feature, combined with rapid restore capabilities, helps organizations recover quickly from ransomware attacks.
- Proactive Support with Pure1®: The Pure1 support team remotely monitors the health of each FlashStack array, providing predictive analytics based on data from thousands of storage arrays. This foresight assists in forecasting capacity and performance needs over time.
By integrating FlashStack into their IT infrastructure, healthcare organizations can enhance their Epic environments with a solution that offers superior performance, scalability, and security, ultimately supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care.
