SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/05/15 — , the leader in server-side storage intelligence, today announced that , Alaska–s first and largest community health center, has deployed software to provide the needed storage performance boost without adding unnecessary capacity.
ANHC provides comprehensive primary care medical, dental and behavioral health services to more than 13,000 individual patients per year. In 2012, ANHC consolidated its two data centers into the current facility in Midtown Anchorage. The move provided an initial influx of grant funding that enabled a total redesign of the IT infrastructure that included server virtualization and a storage upgrade to a SAN based on EMC VNXe 3300.
“Initially, everything was just fine, but once our environment was virtualized, it was easy to spin up new VMs. Pretty soon, we started hitting performance bottlenecks,” said Mike Lane, the systems administrator responsible for ANHC–s virtualized infrastructure.
ANHC–s doctors and nurses access patient records by using the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system based on Intergy, a graphically-intensive application frequently access throughout the day. With each screen refresh taking over five seconds to complete, insufficient performance on Intergy had a direct correlation with staff and patient satisfaction.
After experimenting with an expansion of the EMC array with additional disk shelf and still seeing too-high latency, Lane turned to PernixData FVP software.
is a key infrastructure element of any virtualized data center. The software virtualizes server side flash and memory into a clustered acceleration tier that enables IT administrators to quickly, easily and cost-effectively optimize VM performance while scaling-out storage performance with compute resources.
By complementing EMC storage with FVP and 1 TB Micron SSDs in the existing Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, ANHC gained tremendous performance improvement in the most non-disruptive and cost-effective manner possible. Within one day of deployment, ANHC–s EHR system began responding 3x faster, with latency dropping below the 2 ms mark ANHC was looking for.
Lane was also impressed by the software–s ease of use. “The console is so easy to use — it–s almost idiot-proof,” he said.
PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtualized data centers. The company–s software puts storage intelligence into high speed server media, establishing a control point for optimizing application performance and managing data center operations with true scale-out growth. With PernixData software, customers can leverage any storage platform for capacity, creating a decoupled storage architecture that maximizes design flexibility while minimizing storage costs.
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