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Aegis Sciences Processes More Tests, More Quickly

Aegis Sciences took advantage of its Evergreen Storage subscription to upgrade its Pure Storage FlashArray environment and meet skyrocketing demand for fast and accurate COVID-19 tests.


Summary

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Aegis became the go-to testing lab for federal, state, and local task forces, as well as physicians and healthcare providers across Tennessee. As case numbers climbed, Aegis needed to ramp up testing. By taking advantage of its Evergreen Storage subscription, Aegis upgraded its Pure Storage FlashArray environment to gain the capacity needed to run up to 60,000 tests per day.

Industry

  • Healthcare

GEO

  • North America

Use Cases

  • Accelerate Core Applications

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Challenges

Increase the Speed of Testing While Eliminating Barriers to Scale
With the outbreak of COVID 19 forensic toxicology and healthcare lab, Aegis Science, needed to scale up testing capabilities – fast.

Through the Evergreen program, Aegis Sciences could upgrade storage on demand and scale to meet growing testing needs – from 3,500 tests per day to 60,000. The upgraded infrastructure prevents performance bottlenecks and provides a cost-effective and efficient storage foundation to process tests quickly and accurately.

Results

Business Transformation

  • Pivoted business to become go-to regional lab for federal, state, and local task forces
  • Mitigates the spread of the virus with fast and accurate testing
  • Protects investments with the ability to upgrade storage as needed without disrupting business

IT Transformation

  • Scales to handle up to 60,000 COVID-19 tests per day
  • Prevents performance bottlenecks and capacity issues for results in 24 hours
  • Improves storage management efficiency with a single pool of shared storage

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