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Giant Eagle: pharmacy data protected in 200+ stores

October 27, 20261 min read

A grocery and pharmacy chain built three-node clusters with encryption to keep patient data safe and pharmacies running.

The situation

Giant Eagle runs pharmacies inside more than 200 stores. Patient data had to stay available and protected at every one.

What they did

It deployed StorMagic SvSAN on three-node, all-flash clusters with SvKMS for encryption and central key management.

The result

Pharmacy applications keep running even if two of the three servers in a store fail.

Why it matters

Healthcare data at the edge needs both uptime and encryption. Canadian privacy law asks the same of pharmacies and clinics here.

Source: StorMagic. This organization is a StorMagic customer, not a Connex client.

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