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This afternoon CDW and Ziff Enterprize teamed-up in a webinar to discuss the direction that data storage IT infrastructure is heading.

Chuck Brinkley IBM Storage Specialist at CDW shared his insights about the drivers of storage systems purchases. Trends statistics were at times predictable but most often surprising. Share this at your next wine and cheese social:

• By 2020 globally we will be well over 25 zeta-bytes of data world wide – Wow!

So what does a zeta-byte look like? (comparison chart to be published next week.)

For business, Brinkley goes on to say that when it comes to the need for storage capacity the main drivers vary by size of company out of 11 possible drivers:

• Large companies (>1,000 employees) the drivers are:

1. “Need for new capacity”
2. “Better virtualization capabilities”
3. Tied – “Better backup/recovery” and “Greater scalability”

• Medium-sized companies (100 -999 employees) drivers include:

1. “Need for new capacity”
2. “Better backup/recovery”
3. “Better virtualization capabilities”

• Small companies (<100 employees) drivers include:

1. “Need for new capacity”
2. “Better performance / reliability”
3. “Better backup/recovery”

Virtualization or online storage “cloud computing” comes into play as companies grow beyond 100 employees – A critical consideration as you grow your business.

Virtualization is now one of the top 2 to 3 drivers for larger corporations when making content management decisions – essentially non-existent five years ago.

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Jordan Zornes – Editor & Senior Analyst

Victoria Hunsicker Sanko – Senior Editor

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No man is an island. Neither is his medical record file.

To practice intelligent medicine and advance medical technology discovery and development, the power of consolidated medical data needs to be harnessed.

Clinical trials are not the only source of scientific discovery. Retrospective analysis of site-specific procedural and product use and consumption metrics reveal essential medical professional decision and use insights without violating the individual’s personal medical records, satisfying HIPPA and other regulations. And the later source of data can do so in a much more cost effective manner using current bar coding technologies and data entry, securely and selectively accessing remote hospital databanks. Since medical records for patient cohorts would be pulled as consolidated groups, no one person’s medical records would be inappropriately revealed.

But all has to operate in a virtual space to be fully accessible and must be fully compatible to be most effective. And what better way than through cloud computing where content management meets essential applications?

Ask yourself, “In this extremely tough economy, how will my company cost effectively manage its own content-rich databases of retrospective data to improve our decision-making capabilities?”

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