Storage Wars Healthcare Data to Surpass World Wide Web


WRITTEN BY MIKE MILIARD O


NE byproduct of the massive move toward digitization in healthcare over the past 10


years is a huge–and growing–amount of data. That’s a great thing for smarter decision-making. But it’s a real challenge when it comes to finding


a place to keep it all. Providers large and small have been grappling with the changes. In 2010, a survey from HIMSS and


Dell that showed: • Data centers of small- and medium-sized hospitals weren’t


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prepared for the “wave of data” that will soon be inundating them. • Regulatory issues and compliance requirements were cited as significant hurdles. • Server proliferation—with respondents averaging 75 servers per


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