RSNA Accelerates Access to Research and Education

Nonprofit chooses Pure Storage® for low-latency storage that connects its global members with medical imaging data sets.

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Summary

RSNA connects 52,000 global members involved in radiology and medical imaging. With Pure Storage FlashArray™, the organization can accelerate access to medical images used in education and research.

Industry

Nonprofit

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Health Care

Website

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Challenges

High latency and bottlenecks in the legacy storage environment slowed down development, as code ran slowly and it could take up to 20 minutes to create a test environment. The organization also needed to bring storage to its event venues to guarantee fast response times.

Results

Business Transformation

Creates more time for life-saving research with faster access to medical images
Supports faster software development with test environments spun up in less than one minute
Transfers 366GB of images and supports 65 million hits during annual meeting

IT Transformation

Supports zero downtime during upgrades
Achieves up to 4.2:1 data reduction and 20.4:1 total reduction
Accelerates storage response to under 2 ms

“Pure is the heart and soul of our IT operations. It’s what makes our member services run flawlessly and fast, supporting our mission to promote excellent patient care and healthcare delivery.”

Christopher Harr

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, RSNA