CASE STUDY
Jesse Fasolo has an important
responsibility. When ageing storage
impacted hospital operations, Fasolo,
the Director of Technology and Information
Security, turned to Pure Storage for
dramatically faster performance.
In the process, he set the stage for a more
data-driven healthcare organization,
supporting initiatives such as AI-powered
analytics and the cloud.
Losing sleep over
storage performance
When Fasolo joined St. Joseph’s Health, the
IT organization was under new leadership
and looking to leverage technology in
service of healthcare excellence. It was
Fasolo’s job to create a future-ready IT
foundation – helping clinicians and staff
work more efficiently while paving the way
for future initiatives in the cloud and AI.
Storage was a critical piece of the puzzle.
At the time, the legacy implementation
caused headaches for IT and frustration
for clinicians – with poor performance, slow
backups and frequent downtime.
“We battled fires every day just to keep
systems running,” Fasolo remembers.
“Something as simple as a mass email with
a PDF could cut into performance, keeping
patients waiting to be admitted or doctors
waiting for lab results.”
That kept Fasolo up at night. “I would sleep
with my phone on my chest, worrying about
what might happen,” he said.
A solid investment in storage
improves staff results
“Out of all the competitors, Pure Storage
had the right technology to take us into the
future. And it was something I wouldn’t
have to turn around and replace right
away,” he said. “Plus, Pure helped me
develop a strategic plan – other vendors
just wanted to sell me a box.”
Across the board, Pure technology boosts
performance and reliability for clinical
applications, email, analytics, the Citrix VDI
environment and more.
In the past, it often took doctors and
nurses longer than a minute to log in to
clinical applications. With Pure, sessions
load in seconds. They spend less time
WE’RE SAVING
CLINICIANS
AND THOSE
WHO SUPPORT
THEM A LOT OF
TIME OVER THE
COURSE OF A
DAY SO THEY
CAN FOCUS ON
DELIVERING
THE BEST
PATIENT CARE.
waiting for applications to respond and
can access patient charts and images
much more quickly. And large email
attachments no longer send production
systems into a tailspin.
“In fact, a few days ago, a software vendor
told us that the extremely low storage
latency meant that alerts were coming
through its system too fast for nurses,”
said Fasolo. Those small time savings
add up across thousands of employees
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