AHCS is a leading provider of technology-enabled medication dispensing solutions that needed a highly reliable and scalable storage solution to support its critical applications. It chose the SolidFire all-flash storage platform for its ability to perform upgrades and expansions during production hours without maintenance windows, its scale-out architecture that allows adding performance and capacity non-disruptively, and its guaranteed quality of service that ensures application performance even during failures. The SolidFire solution met AHCS' needs for high availability, infrastructure agility, and guaranteed performance for its mission-critical applications.

1. Building a Next-Gen Storage
Infrastructure for SaaS Applications
Al Perlman, Moderator, TechTarget
Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate, NetApp SolidFire
Edward Dibeler, Automated Healthcare Solutions

2. • 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.
Self Healing
High Availability
Fail without
operational
impacts
Complete
System Automation
Infrastructure
management
by code
In-Line Data
Reduction
Production
data sets
without cost
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Scale without
operational
impacts
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Deploy without
operational
impacts

6. All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.
Self Healing
High Availability
Fail without
operational
impacts
Complete
System Automation
Infrastructure
management
by code
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Scale without
operational
impacts
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Deploy without
operational
impacts
In-Line Data
Reduction
Production
data sets
without cost

7. 35 TB
Scale-Out Infrastructure Agility
 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
Performance
Capacity
200,000 IOPS
43.6 TB
250,000 IOPS
52.2 TB
300,000 IOPS
60.8 TB
350,000 IOPS

8. All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.
Self Healing
High Availability
Fail without
operational
impacts
Complete
System Automation
Infrastructure
management
by code
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Scale without
operational
impacts
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Deploy without
operational
impacts
In-Line Data
Reduction
Production
data sets
without cost

9.  SolidFire Helix™
Cluster wide RAID-less data protection
 No single points of failure
 Automatic self-healing –
restores redundancy after failure
 Maintains all QoS settings
regardless of failure condition
 Non-disruptive hardware
and software upgrades
Self Healing High Availability
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10. All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.
Self Healing
High Availability
Fail without
operational
impacts
Complete
System Automation
Infrastructure
management
by code
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Scale without
operational
impacts
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Deploy without
operational
impacts
In-Line Data
Reduction
Production
data sets
without cost

11. Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
 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

12. In-Line Data
Reduction
Production
data sets
without cost
All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.
Self Healing
High Availability
Fail without
operational
impacts
Complete
System Automation
Infrastructure
management
by code
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Scale without
operational
impacts
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Deploy without
operational
impacts

13. Q&A

14. Thank you