Epic Performance Gains at the University of Kansas Health System

Customer:

The University of Kansas Health System needed a new storage solution to meet the performance requirements of its Epic EHR system. Installing all-flash arrays from Pure Storage has exceeded the Epic performance requirements, reduced downtimes, given application-development teams more flexibility, and slashed the time it takes to generate key reports.

Challenges:

• Cost of upgrading storage to meet Epic requirements was prohibitively expensive.
• "Rip and replace” cycle needed to be broken.

Use Case:

• Database – Epic® Caché®

Business Transformation:

• Enhanced efficiency for application development teams. Reduced costs for power, cooling and data-center space. Greater predictability of long-term storage costs.

IT Transformation:

• Time required to run selected Epic Clarity reports slashed from 5½ hours to 20 minutes.
• Snapshots accelerate software development process.
• Five racks of storage equipment reduced to 20RU.