Reduce TCO with Smart, Simple Solutions for Healthcare Data Management

With HIMSS17 right around the corner, we met with Dave Nesvisky, senior director, NetApp Healthcare, to better understand why NetApp is uniquely positioned to reduce TCO with smart, simple solutions for healthcare data management.

Simplicity – it’s the ultimate measure of sophistication.  Think of the things we take for granted on a daily basis –  the smart phone, which is a single pane of glass with an easy-to-understand user interface allowing immediate access to an unlimited number of applications. The automatic transmission in our cars. Today it’s not uncommon to have an eight-speed transmission. All we do is select “D” and the transmission seamlessly orchestrates hundreds of parts choosing the correct gear based on speed and load. 

There are dozens of examples just like this. Traditionally, this concept has eluded IT infrastructure. Siloed systems each serve their own purposes, use their own unique operating systems, and necessitate separate training and support.   

NetApp is uniquely positioned to provide healthcare the simplicity it not only deserves but requires in these uncertain and economically challenging times.  NetApp’s vision is to provide simplicity through sophistication for healthcare’s rigorous data management requirements. NetApp ONTAP data management software can be used as the common environment for every workload. ONTAP has been proven to effectively handle everything from latency sensitive EMRs to capacity scaling archives, working equally effectively on premise or in a cloud model.  ONTAP allows healthcare to enjoy that “single pane of glass” to manage all its data.

Q: What market trends and industry opportunities do you feel NetApp is best positioned to address in 2017, and why?

Clearly cloud is making its presence felt.  Every organization either has, or is creating, its cloud strategy.  With the broadest cloud-connected portfolio in the industry, NetApp is ideally positioned to help clients in every stage of cloud adoption – from hybrid cloud to private cloud to public cloud ­including hyperscaler providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS).