University Hospital Centre of Saint-Etienne Customer of Pure Storage

Pure Storage, Inc. announced that University Hospital Centre of Saint-Etienne, an university hospitals in southeast France, is leveraging its portfolio – including FlashArray, Pure1, and its Evergreen architecture – to secure and accelerate access to critical data in order to improve overall patient care and BC.

Customer challenge
The University Hospital Centre (CHU) of Saint-Etienne is a public institution that specializes in healthcare, research, and teaching, providing a variety of patient care to people in the region, ranging from pediatrics and maternity care to heart surgery and radiation treatment.

As it increased its data footprint, its legacy storage technologies – a mix of aging disk storage – struggled to meet growing capacity needs, taking up a great deal of space and threatening availability due to regular breakdowns.

Faced with growing demands and limited space, the hospital needed to modernize its IT infrastructure, which serves as the foundation for all of its patient systems. As a result, it worked with partner Axians France to shift its legacy infrastructure to Pure , replacing approximately 70 units of legacy hardware with 6 units contained in 2 FlashArray systems, meeting the organization’s space constraint requirements.

Customer impact
Pure provides CHU Saint-Etienne the availability, security, and performance it needs to both scale and improve patient care, while enabling easy maintenance for its small IT team.

Benefits include:
• Modernized, efficient storage infrastructure: With FlashArray, CHU Saint-Etienne has reduced its power consumption while increasing storage capacity by 50% compared to its legacy storage environment. The increased capacity enables the hospital’s IT team more flexibility to shift workloads and increase demand as needed, providing a future-proof foundation to scale with patients.
• Reduced time spent on storage management: Pure1 AI-driven management platform enables CHU Saint-Etienne to reduce administrative time with an easy-to-use interface that simplifies storage management and allows new IT team members to get up to speed quickly. Additionally, the Evergreen architecture further simplifies management with seamless, non-disruptive upgrades to existing controllers, eliminating downtime for the hospital.
• Enhanced data protection and greater availability: Using Pure Storage SafeMode Snapshots in FlashArray, CHU Saint-Etienne can now secure its storage environment with fast recovery of data that has been inadvertently deleted, making it easier to comply with data retention requirements. Snapshots, along with ActiveCluster active-active replication across the FlashArray systems, help to minimize the impact of cyberattacks. Pure thus reinforces CHU Saint-Etienne’s BC plan by helping to deliver greater availability.
• Improved application performance: The new Pure infrastructure improves application performance for CHU Saint-Etienne, reducing latency from around 17ms to under 1ms in most use cases. Staff and clinicians can access data faster and provide a better quality of care to patients and other users of the hospital.

“Moving our legacy storage environment to Pure was one of the best decisions we could have made as an IT team. Not only does Pure Storage deliver unrivaled performance and management capabilities that meet our storage needs, but it enables us to truly secure and scale sensitive and business-critical data to meet growing patient demands, ultimately helping us deliver better care across the region,” said Samuel Pelissier, IT infrastructure and operation manager, CHU Saint-Etienne.

“We’re supporting CHU Saint-Etienne to power the healthcare of tomorrow. Data is central to delivering better patient outcomes and faster diagnosis and our solutions enable the University Hospital in this regard. Not only are we meeting CHU’s needs and positively impacting patients’ lives, we’re also supporting sustainability for the public sector organisation in greatly reducing its data centre footprint,” said Hugues Hueze, country manager France, Pure.

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