Case Study: Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System achieves faster application performance, simplified storage management, and lower TCO with Pure Storage

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Revives Storage With Pure Storage

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMHS), a 269‑bed hospital and affiliated multi‑specialty clinics in Monterey County, was running aging, end‑of‑life SANs that caused sluggish performance for practice‑management applications and threatened a disruptive forklift upgrade—all while completing a long MEDITECH EHR upgrade that limited their ability to change infrastructure. The hospital needed a fast, low‑risk storage solution that improved application responsiveness without a lengthy evaluation or repeated migrations.

SVMHS replaced two vendor SANs with a single Pure Storage FlashArray//M70, deployed as a FlashStack with Cisco UCS and VMware and integrated with Commvault via CloudWave. The all‑flash array delivered much faster reports and application performance (practice management, SharePoint, SQL/MEDITECH reporting), simplified storage management and consolidation for IT, and lowered five‑year total cost of ownership through Pure’s Evergreen program and built‑in features like encryption at rest.

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

Audrey Parks

Chief Information Officer