by Maryna Frolova, PR Coordinator — March 11, 2010
Last week, healthcare IT professionals from around the world gathered in Atlanta, Georgia for HIMSS10, the world’s largest and most respected IT exhibitions for healthcare organizations. Attendees were looking for ways to manage their IT, while meeting regulatory compliance requirements and digitizing medical records and patient information. Electronic medical records (EMR), electronic health records (EHR) and picture archiving communication systems (PACS) were the talk of the show.
When healthcare companies embark on EMR, EHR and PACS projects, they need data storage that will grow with them over time. At the Compellent booth, I heard a director of IT passionately exclaim that he is “sick and tired of forklift upgrades.” He wants a system that would be scalable and will not leave him with an enormous rip-and-replace bill every time they outgrow their storage capacity. This is just one of the many candid comments that we heard during the show.
In fact, a number of past Compellent customers stopped by the booth to tell us how much they miss their Compellent systems now that their new employer does not have a Compellent system. Some had plans to introduce Compellent into their environments, for others it was too early to tell, but it was great to have them visit.
Those who currently have a Compellent system did not hold back in giving us feedback. Mark Manning from McKesson told us that Compellent does not do enough promotion around the system’s performance and outstanding support services. McKesson has seen system performance improvements and found a way to verify significant cost savings associated with running a Compellent system as opposed to other storage vendors.
All in all, it was nice to hear about the success our healthcare customers were having with their storage. Steve Melcher, IT Director of Lincoln Surgical Hospital in Nebraska, talked to us about his disaster recovery project based on Compellent Fluid Data storage. Check out the video here.
Overall, this was a big show and the who’s who of healthcare IT vendors were all in attendance. Back for the second time, this was the first time that Compellent was exhibiting in the new Fluid Data booth. What do you think? A couple people actually stopped and commented on how much they liked the booth. We’re looking forward to HIMSS11!
by Liem Nguyen, Corporate Communications Manager — March 09, 2010
When it comes to your IT environment, sometimes the best decisions involve an element of risk. Implementing a new technology can be a difficult choice – but the payoff can be pretty big.
Just ask Ben Higginbotham, director of new technology at WhereToLive.com, a company that offers real estate brokers behind-the-scenes applications that support daily property transactions and listings. Ben’s job centers around evaluating new technologies to help manage the data that realtors need – and decide whether the risk of implementation is worth the payoff. Using the Compellent SAN, Ben has created an ideal Fluid Data platform to test new resources and assess new capabilities.
Compellent invites you to join Ben, as well as Compellent storage architect John Dias, for a Twitter Chat we’re calling #SANChat. The very first one will about new technology risks you are taking or considering in the data center – are you curious what others have similarly done? What about the results? Was the payoff worth the risk? Did your recommendations, particularly storage-related ones, generate business-improving benefits in the end? Take an hour to chat with us and share your questions, best practices, and advice about doing something new in storage.
#SANchat Details:
- Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CT
- Topic: Evaluating the Risk of New Technologies
- The hashtag #SANchat will be used to identify the thread for this chat; use the #SANchat identifier to submit questions during the chat session
- If you can’t attend the session, you can submit questions in advance to @Compellent, and we’ll provide these advance topics to our participants for discussion during the chat
- Follow: John Dias: @johnddias, Ben Higginbotham: @bencredible, Compellent: @Compellent
- We recommend using the service TweetChat.com to follow the conversation.
by Ryan Sclanders, Infrastructure Manager, Credit Market Analysis — March 08, 2010
We are really excited to be ahead of the wave as one of Compellent's first EMEA customers to be part of its new Fluid Data strategy.
Financial institutions across the world depend upon our products and services 24/7. In a $34 trillion market, our clients rely on our pricing data to enhance their ability to manage risk, value their portfolios and understand market trends and themes.
The pressure is therefore on to make sure all of our IT solutions can support us and our clients. Compellent offers a combination of virtualisation and Fluid Data infrastructure, which made it an ideal choice. Not only is it easy to use, but its intelligent automated tiered storage allows the data to flow up and down the tiers. This reduces management costs, avoids unnecessary disk purchases and minimises power costs.
Editor’s Note: Ryan Sclanders of CMA is a Compellent customer and the contributor of this blog post. To learn more about CMA and their use of Compellent systems, watch this video and read this case study.