Fortune 1000 Financial Services Company Selects Pavilion

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. announced that a Fortune 1000 financial services company focused on information and insights including specializing in consumer credit reporting and billing analysis, selected its Hyperparallel Flash Array (HFA) to power their SQL Server based healthcare analytics and billing applications.

Grounded in their history as a credit reporting agency, the customer fuses credit and public data to leverage the power of combined data. In line with that, the company selected the HFA to power its next gen SQL Server based applications.

The company also services healthcare organizations to perform analytics on patient records and billing functions to find payments that their customers are entitled to, ensuring that hospitals are paid what is due. On average, they’re able to find previously missed payments from anywhere between 1 and 2% of all patients admitted. These monies would otherwise go unclaimed, so the hospitals leverage this service to recoup charges owed.

This is accomplished by running SQL on Windows 2016 servers for data searching and analytics.

The customer had several requirements to meet their performance and manageability needs. First, the customer was moving off of IBM V9000 systems too costly and difficult to manage. By providing a disaggregated solution, the HFA simplified their storage environment while providing them with the ability to linearly and independently scale storage capacity and performance to meet the needs of the business for greater data analysis and business insights.

Further, there was a requirement for efficient resiliency. The HFA is able to provide this with Swarm RAID Recovery. In the event of a drive failure, it uses the power of multiple controllers to swarm the degraded array enabling the data from the failed drive to be rebuilt in minutes, as opposed to hours, or even days for traditional RAID solutions.

Most importantly was performance. Capable of delivering up to 120GB/s of throughput, 22 million IO/s of performance, and latencies ofs 25µs, in a single 4RU array, the HFA provides performance density and the performance of DAS with the benefits of shared storage.

Pavilion has multiple deployments in the analytics vertical and is continuing to expand its data center footprint in this space.