Safely Transitioning Users to the Digital Age
October 23, 2015
The risk to not responding to these demands is not an option, as our Lines of Business actively look to Cloud options to deliver lower costs and greater mobility.
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Serving the Connecting Customer Will Require Big Data Solutions
September 29, 2015
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 has massive key advantages.
September 29, 2015
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 […]
OpenStack is NOT an Enterprise Cloud Platform
September 26, 2015
Imagine if the auto industry had an “Open Automotive Foundation” that gave you access to all of the tools and secrets for building a car. And what if that foundation released an “Open Car Framework,” with the design templates, hardware specs and free software to build your own new car platform? Wouldn’t you choose to build a custom […]
Why data is the backbone of population health management
September 22, 2015
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 […]
Monitoring and Management of Our Architectures and the Brass Ring
September 16, 2015
Cross-Platform Management Comes of Age The evolution of monitoring and management tools introduced third-party software built to specifications using SNMP traps and APIs. The great thing about these tools was that they were no longer specific to a particular manufacturer. That gave IT staff greater control and expanded their ability to monitor hardware for faults and alert to high […]
You can’t take IT with you when you go. Or can you?
August 26, 2015
Bridging the Gap Between IT and Business With the evolution of the Internet, the Cloud, and the required mobility of business critical applications, all facets of the healthcare enterprise are entrenched in the world of IT. This transformation has been dubbed by the IT industry as the “New Style of Business.” In fact, as we […]
Why “it depends” with storage
August 19, 2015
Helping clients succeed So, why does it seem that I’m not committed to educating my customers about these new technologies? Don’t I care about my clients’ issues the way that vendors do? After all, vendors aren’t shy about expressing passion and enthusiasm for their products by emphasizing all the features and benefits. Actually, I care […]
Benefits of storage consolidation
August 14, 2015
Spinning Media vs. Solid State Drives In order to address this issue, the size of disk drives has continued to grow for both spinning media and the newer solid state devices. Although spinning media is significantly slower than its solid state counterpart, it has grown to single drive capacities of 10 TB. At the same […]
The object of storage
August 10, 2015
The History of Object Storage Object storage was a redundant and scalable storage system that provided a generalized data container with an index and metadata layers for the objects. Objects stored in the system were accessed via the index, and information pertaining to these objects was contained in the metadata. Files of all types and sizes could be […]