Despite organizations’ familiarity with the IBM iSeries, legacy on-premises platforms pose some significant challenges, including: When an iSeries-focused staff member leaves or retires, it’s a challenge to find certified talent. Maintaining iSeries systems has become cost-prohibitive when compared to newer options. Organizations no longer need the robust features of replacement iSeries models. Adapting to today’s […]

Level One of Dual-Speed IT involves a continuous, steady acceleration to support the stability of the organization and operational needs of the core business. This level is internally focused – the traditional enterprise IT that companies like OnX have worked with for many years, designing systems that promote scale and provide availability for their mission […]

2014 is a year where we saw an organizational shift—where  companies moved towards being ‘always on’ to serve the connected customer. With the proliferation of mobile devices and content delivery portals, it should not be surprising the year also saw escalated efforts by companies to connect with that consumer. As the needs of businesses and […]

EMC Isilon scale-out Data Lake further extends its leadership as an ideal platform to store, manage and protect unstructured data efficiently while supporting a wide range of applications and workloads. Key advantages of EMC Isilon include: Together, OnX and EMC provide scaled-out storage, a unified analytics platform and development tools that make a massive difference […]

Set Long-term Goals for Managing and Analyzing Data in Real Time Once your organization has agreed upon the ultimate goals for transforming care under the population health management model, you’ll need to answer a few key questions about data: What data do we need? Where is this data? How should it be collected? How should […]

  One of the keys to making the volume-to-value-based transition is an organization’s ability to use their data to make decisions. For years, healthcare organizations have been leveraging data warehouse technologies using structured data for retrospective decision making. The challenge now is incorporating unstructured, semi-structured, and machine generated data – like nursing and physician notes, written […]

Disk-based backups bring new performance potential to a backup environment.  Tape-based backups are not only limited by the speed of the tape, but in many ways they are limited by the capabilities of the media itself.  The IT staff has had to juggle between “multiplexing” multiple jobs to a tape to reduce the backup window […]

So what can these managers do to get a handle on the situation and create an environment that not only supports the issues of today but provides for future growth and requirements? OnX has developed a process for doing just this! It is a four stage process that can transform the storage environment from what […]

“Having our data backed up and available at all times is critical to our operations,” says Ivo Mokros, Director of IT Operations and Chief Architect at Canadian Blood Services. “We can’t function if we don’t have access to the records relating to our supply. The data we store also needs to be very secure. We […]