Fair Health Opts for Oracle Exadata and Sun ZFS Storage

FAIR Health, Inc., an independent not-for-profit
corporation dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and
out-of-network reimbursement, has selected the Oracle
Exadata Database Machine with a cluster of Oracle Sun ZFS Storage 7420
appliances for backup to support its database of more than 15 billion claims.

An additional Sun ZFS Storage Appliance supports remote DR and development.

FAIR Health’s data are used by multiple
stakeholders in health insurance, including insurance carriers, third party
administrators, healthcare providers, employers, researchers and consumers to
process claims, inform pricing models, offer cost transparency and to
understand geographic variation in cost and utilization.

FAIR Health sought a solution to streamline
performance and eliminate the storage bottlenecks in its existing environment.

With Exadata, FAIR Health tested its
existing code and achieved significant performance improvements, including a 5x
reduction in claims processing time(1) and a 10x faster average performance
improvement in applying complex statistical methodologies(2).

Using Exadata’s Hybrid Columnar
Compression technology combined with the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, FAIR Health
achieved an average of 14x reduction in physical storage space for its primary
Oracle Database storage, database backups, and DR site.

The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance’s direct IB
connection to the Exadata and its high-throughput design enables FAIR
Health to reduce their backup windows and increase resources available for
production workloads.

FAIR Health also uses the Sun ZFS Storage
Appliance’s snapshot and replication capabilities to replicate compressed data
to a third remote Sun ZFS Storage Appliance at its DR location where clones of
the Hybrid Columnar Compressed data are used to develop proof-of-concepts for
new application functionality.

With the increased performance and capacity
delivered by the Exadata and Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solution, FAIR
Health will be able to reallocate resources to focus on product development and
enhancement, including its expanded custom analytics capability.

(1) Exadata improvement on Upstate Health Research Network Variance
Analysis.

(2) Exadata improvement in product
creation when applying statistical methodologies to the Healthcare Common
Procedure Coding System product.