Fenton said the Pure Storage solution has helped the hospital deliver superior patient care through fast and reliable system access, maintains high resiliency to keep systems running during any possible natural disasters, and provides the storage scalability needed to support other digital transformation initiatives.
Since deployment, the Pure Storage environment has enabled St George’s to expand its storage as needed to keep up with rapidly growing demand, accelerate the speed of file access and SQL instances and provide its IT staff with peace of mind with proactive monitoring to prevent issues. The migration to Pure Storage also provided reassurance for business continuity in the face of COVID-19.
“We wanted to get the new Pure Storage system implemented quickly as our storage needed to be ready to take on extra workload during the height of the pandemic,” he said. The St George’s IT team were able to deploy quickly with remote support from the Pure Storage team. “Once the hardware was delivered onsite at St George’s, the Pure arrays were up in under six hours,” he added.
The deployment of Pure Storage FlashArray//X, supported by real-time monitoring and updates from the Pure1® cloud-based management platform, resulted in a potential data reduction ratio of 3:1.
The hospital also selected the Pure Storage Evergreen™ storage model to enable IT staff to rapidly expand storage as needed. Since moving onto Pure, the team has not only increased storage capacity, but also gained significant speed and smoother integration with the VMware environment. This has resulted in faster file access to SQL instances helping to improve the stability of SQL connections for applications. Backups and snapshots are significantly faster as well.
The St George’s team implemented ActiveCluster™ and advanced data protection measures that help maintain availability and deliver high resiliency should an unforeseen event occur. In addition, IT staff now receive pre-emptive alerts with Pure1.
“Healthcare organisations like St George’s faced more challenges than most other sectors during the pandemic. They not only had to meet the influx of patients but also had to ensure they were operating at a functional level. Undertaking a digital transformation project during the pandemic was extremely brave of the St George’s IT team and Pure Storage was proud to be able to help them pull it off smoothly with our uncomplicated but powerful modern data solutions,” said Stuart Blythe, Country Manager, New Zealand, Pure Storage.
