NetApp : FlexPod performance testing CVD now available for Epic

I'm excited to announce that we now have a Cisco Validated Design (CVD), proving that FlexPod^® is the best converged infrastructure for deploying Epic.

Epic is the market leader EHR

KLAS consistently ranks Epic as the best electronic health record system for acute care hospitals that have more than 200 beds, as well as for ambulatory clinics that have more than 75 doctors. Epic is the market leader, serving 58% of hospitals above 500 beds in the United States, and 33% of U.S. hospitals overall. Epic is an EHR on a growth trajectory, winning more customers yearly.

FlexPod is not new to Epic

FlexPod takes pride in being the best-suited infrastructure solution for Epic. Solutions for Epic have been a key component of the FlexPod go-to-market strategy for the healthcare market since 2018, when the first FlexPod validated architecture for Epic was published.

Many Epic customers, such as Tucson Medical Center and UMC New Orleans, have deployed Epic on premises using FlexPod. And some Epic customers, such as Mercy Technology Services, have deployed Epic on a FlexPod based private cloud and are providing Epic as a service to their customer hospitals.

FlexPod is the best solution for Epic

Our new CVD for FlexPod for Epic EHR shows the reliability of FlexPod with a NetApp^® AFF A400 all-flash storage system and Cisco UCS X-210c M6 for Epic's simulated workloads. Epic requires all operational databases to be on flash arrays, so the AFF A400 suits its needs. Epic publishes a quarterly document called Storage Products and Technology Status (SPaTS). AFF was the first all-flash array to achieve the Epic high-comfort rating. As the only vendor with a high-comfort rating for both NAS and SAN on the same platform, NetApp is the only true option for Epic to consolidate on an enterprise-class, single storage platform.