Consortium Health Plans Selects Violin Memory

Violin Memory, Inc. announced that Consortium Health Plans, Inc., a national sales and marketing organization held by 21 Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies, has selected its Flash Storage Platform (FSP) to future-proof existing data centers and provide BC services.

To continue to position Blue as the preferred choice for national accounts and keep pace with the rapid growth of its customer base, Consortium Health Plans turned to Violin to create a data center infrastructure with the scalability and performance required to meet the high demands of the healthcare industry’s insurance claims intake systems.

“Consortium Health Plans is focused on BCBS national account growth, and in order to best serve our customers we required an optimized storage solution to drive tier 1 performance as well as the flexibility of scale as our business demands increase,” said Mike Underman, SVP of national account services, Consortium Health Plans. “Violin’s Flash Storage Platform solutions integrated seamlessly into our data center environment and delivered data protection features and the scalability we required for our customers.“

Consortium Health Plans implemented Flash Storage Platform technology to drive business-critical application performance, including identifying and reporting on Blue Plan capabilities and providing fast, efficient and consistent Request for Information (RFI) responses. Leveraging Violin’s Concerto OS 7, the Violin FSP enables full transparency for all workloads and environments, data encryption at rest and in-flight processing to improve performance, and data management services for Consortium Health Plans customers.

“In order to drive business into the future, Consortium Health Plans understood that an all flash solution would best meet their need for a zero data loss architecture delivering tier 1 performance and scalability,” said Amy D. Love, CMO, Violin Memory. “Violin provided the best combination of flash technology and BC services to meet Consortium’s requirements for data center needs today and moving forward.“

Violin all flash optimized solutions transform the speed of the healthcare insurance business, combining a variety of enterprise data services that encompass data protection, storage efficiency and BC with performance and density under a dual-everything Flash Fabric Architecture. Healthcare insurance providers can intelligently integrate optimized all-flash storage technologies at the cost of disk to lower the acquisition cost and TCO.