Case Study: Choctaw Nation Housing Authority achieves near‑instant patient record access and 95% reduction in storage management time with Pure Storage

Choctaw Nation Implements FlashStack

Choctaw Nation, a sovereign tribal government with more than $1 billion in annual revenues, operates its own health system (a hospital in Talihina and eight clinics) and relies on IT to support clinical and administrative services. The organization struggled with legacy spinning‑disk storage that caused high I/O latency, long wait times for files and VDI sessions, frequent hardware failures, high maintenance costs, and poor video performance for staff training and communications.

Choctaw Nation deployed Pure Storage FlashArray within a FlashStack architecture (Cisco UCS servers and VMware) to host EMR, VDI, and other workloads. The move delivered near‑instant access versus ~30‑second delays, up to a 95% reduction in routine storage management time, 8:1 data reduction, consolidation from multiple racks to 8U, native replication for active‑active data centers, and wider adoption of Pure arrays across other tribal business units.

Choctaw Nation Housing Authority

Daniel Dickerson

Systems Engineer