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Building a Next-Gen Storage Infrastructure for SaaS ApplicationsAl Perlman, Moderator, TechTarget

Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate, NetApp SolidFire

Edward Dibeler, Automated Healthcare Solutions

• AHCS is the leading provider of technology enabled dispensing solutions for workers compensation providers and patients with location in 36 states including Hawaii and Alaska

• AHCS has developed a powerful, next generation claims management technology platform, called ezDispense™ for point of care medication dispensing which is web based and can be accessed anywhere internet is available

• The platform enables the Company to remove many of the traditional barriers associated with physician dispensing, while virtually eliminating reimbursement risk and ensuring patients receive their medication

• The AHCS model is a guaranteed program so all our information must be accurate, secure and in real time without interruption or delay

• Our providers require live on-demand critical life saving data like allergy and drug interaction information as well as refill to soon and other safety information

• The AHCS platform reports to all state and government entities the dispensing information of all providers dispensing controlled medications

What we do at AHCS

Storage Needs• AHCS needed to acquire a storage solution which would allow us to give the highest SLA possible

to its providers without the need for “Maintenance Windows”

• We needed to know that our data integrity would be safe and secure

• We needed reliability with survivability under multiple failure scenarios without impact on software delivery

• We needed to scale up in horsepower, not just storage as we grew

• Wanted to get away from controller/shelf methodology

Why SolidFire• Ability to perform upgrades, expansions and patches during production hours without the need for

maintenance windows

• Distance ourselves from traditional RAID methodology with extensive rebuild times

• As nodes are added (during production hours even) we are able to add performance resources as well as storage (IOPS)

• No single point of failure, we can lose half our stack and still remain 100% up without impact on performance

• Ability to guarantee bandwidth at the application level

All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.

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Linear Scale of Performance and Capacity

Expand / Contract without disruption or reconfiguration

Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes Future-Proof your storage investment Eliminate storage migrations

and forklift upgrades Never wait 3 years for an upgrade

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200,000 IOPS

43.6 TB250,000 IOPS

52.2 TB300,000 IOPS

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SolidFire Helix™ Cluster wide RAID-less data protection No single points of failure Automatic self-healing –

restores redundancy after failure Maintains all QoS settings

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Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee storage performance independent of capacity

Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings for each application / volume

SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional performance related storage problems - ESG 2015



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