I’ve blogged before about the need for healthcare providers to have IT in place to empower physicians to care for today’s information-hungry e-patients. For many organisations, this can be a significant challenge, especially in the face of financial restrictions such as the UK’s recently announced NHS budget cuts.
We’re very pleased to be able to share some exciting news with you. This week HDS EMEA announced some new executive appointments that will deliver significant benefits to the organisation on both a global and a local level.
A discussion that I’m having a lot with customers and colleagues at the moment is around the future of the data centre, and how it’s going to evolve. At HDS we believe that the next stage of evolution will see the emergence of the ‘information centre’, featuring intelligent data management that automatically adapts to meet critical business needs. For enterprise IT departments, the information centre represents the ultimate goal, supporting business-critical processes with ultra low demands on man hours and OPEX.
I have been in Frankfurt this week. My in-flight reading on the way home was some material outlining how to better economize your storage. I concentrated hard trying to find a way to remember the differences between TCO, ROI and ROA. The difference is small yet very important.
I hope you all had a wonderful festive season and like me are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that 2011 will bring. Seeing Chris Sweetapple’s comments predicting the dominance of virtualisation in the storage agenda this year, I thought I’d share some of my own thoughts on the influential developments from 2010 and what to look out for in the months ahead.
At this time of year, many of us are thinking about the achievements of events of the last 12 months, and looking forward to what the next will bring. As for me, I’m putting my money on 2011 being the year that we see the integration of virtual environments really take off.
As any data centre manager is aware, the IT landscape never stays the same for long. As new technologies emerge they promise better efficiencies and better business. The challenge that faces the industry is to keep up with these innovations in a way that supports business objectives and doesn’t break the bank.
I’ve been reading the 2010 Pfizer Health Index which outlines findings from a survey into the health and wellbeing of the Irish population and was published last week. With public spending a primary concern in the current economic circumstances, health is expected to take a one billion euro hit – a 7 per cent reduction.
If we were able to transport an IT manager of 30 or 40 years ago to the modern day, he would recognise the perennial challenge of managing a centralised data platform in a way that is efficient and cost effective. That’s about as far as the similarity goes, however. The internet and other technologies have fundamentally changed IT and the focus is no longer simply on managing data, but adding value to it. Turning it into information. Read More
Last week I joined many of the storage industry’s key players in Frankfurt for the annual Storage Networking World Europe event. I found it to be a great few days and a buzzing event, with a lot of attendees. Indeed, the organiser tells us that there was a 15% increase in attendance figures compared to last year. This just goes to show that storage remains a key issue for datacentre managers – maybe even a sign of a coming boom in demand.
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