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Ah, yes, Halloween. Time to pick up that empty wine glass and start knocking on neighbors’ doors. I’ll leave the candy for the kids. But there is a “trick or treat” to this blog. The “trick” was to get you to read this far, and the “treat” will be unfolding over the next few weeks [...]

Last week, HDS unveiled its roadmap for the Information Cloud and stated that it is based on technology obtained through the acquisition of ParaScale in August 2010. In this blog post, I will explain how the ParaScale platform will serve as a foundation and enabler for the Information Cloud.

Now I don’t like to steal titles or concepts from other companies but at my last company we had a concept of a Multi-site Maturity Model and I think the same “maturity model” concept works for healthcare and our cloud offering. It took a little while for this to kick in (thanks to my colleague Linda [...]

Yesterday, HDS announced our roadmap for the information cloud to help customers transform data so it can be better used as a strategic asset with the goal of fostering more business insight and innovation. Miki Sandorfi, our Chief Strategy Officer for Cloud, also explained yesterday in his post how our 3-tier strategy builds—starting from infrastructure [...]

…and it is our sincere desire to Inspire Your Next Insight.  The reveal of our infrastructure, content and information clouds exposes a framework to help our customers and the market get to that next “ah ha” moment.

Today HDS made an important announcement supporting our commitment to cloud, and it came in two parts.

The trends are clear and spectacular. We create, collect and store an immense amount of data and information at an exponential rate.

There have been many articles, opinions and positions written about the big data phenomenon in the past year, and if you were not confused before, you may be trying to decipher its impact to your organization and your business.  There is no doubt about what big data implies, and its affect in business and beyond [...]

HDS is excited to be a Premier Sponsor at this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011 held October 16 – 20, 2011 in Orlando, FL. Attendees should expect the conference to be packed full of classes, labs, and have access to tons of information on emerging technologies. A few key examples on how the agenda has expanded [...]

Have you ever watched a completely uncut interview or viewed footage of Steve Jobs when he doesn’t have a script? From the moment he announced his official retirement this summer I have done exactly that.  When the moment called for it, Jobs would pause, sometimes uncomfortably, collect his thoughts and then respond.  Most recently, I [...]