Using IBM FlashSystem to Better Patient Care

A recent ESG Lab study revealed that increased server virtualization and managing data growth are among the top four priorities for IT pros. It’s clear that mid-sized organizations to enterprises need a server virtualization solution that scales with a growing business. Tune into this brief overview of how IBM Storwise V7000 can improve performance four times over and response time by eight times over in a cost-effective and efficient manner.

Join Senior Strategist & Analyst Randy Kerns as he discusses the successes with flash storage, technology developments, deployments of flash storage and future and potential impacts on the industry.

Businesses are growing at a rapid rate and IT has traditionally turned to private and hosted clouds to keep up. However, the wrong solutions could lead to unnecessary complexities and stretch your IT resources too thin. IBM Smarter Storage Portfolio can help organizations and businesses avoid common storage challenges and overcome pitfalls associated with them. This session will provide an overview on the benefits of XIV architecture and how it can unleash the power of reliability, simplicity and performance of your storage strategy.

How do you manage 15 petabytes of data created every day? From social, mobile and big data analytics, having the right storage strategy is key to making better decisions with bigger and faster data. Join as experts from IBM, Cypress Semiconductor, Jeskell Inc. and ownCloud discuss these growing trends and their approaches to a storage strategy.

Cloud implementations may stress your storage in unique ways. Learn how you can build and manage effective cloud storage that has:

- Simplicity to drive speed and efficiency
- Resiliency to deliver continuous operations
- Predictability to guarantee service levels

This session will discuss how you can have self-tuning, always optimized enterprise disk storage (SAN) for private, public and OpenStack clouds.

Get reliable access to the data you need when you need it most. That's what one pediatric hospital was able to do with IBM.

Tim is responsible for the company's applications - and he is not very happy. Lately Tim has been spending his days answering the phone and deflecting blame. Operations, DB Admins, Infrastructure owners - nobody is happy - until Tim discovers IBM FlashSystem, that is. Now, Tim receives phone calls with praise, not blame. Watch this short clip and see how Tim became the company hero.

Wikibon analyst Dave Vellante uncovers some details on where IBM believes the future of storage is headed and the ways in which customers should prepare.

Take a moment and watch the journey that John, our fearless database owner makes in his quest to improve database performance. John learns that there is a better solution than buying more processors, changing your application, or tuning your database, now that IBM FlashSystem storage is available!

Learn how managed service provider Cegeka improved SAP performance by using IBM FlashSystem.

Tony, our operations manager, gains efficiencies in the datacenter with IBM FlashSystem storage. Tony used to spend his days reacting to issues and chasing down broken hardware. Now, with the IBM FlashSystem his storage solution is small in size, large in capacity, uses very little power, and is blindingly fast.

IBM FlashSystem enables customers like SciQuest to eliminate bottlenecks, get real-time data in a cloud environment, and reduce transaction times. Learn more at http://www.ibm.com/storage/flash

Our CEO, Charles, has been losing customers due to poor response times on his retail website. After investing in the latest software, the application demands slowed system response times. Then Charles, in almost no time at all, implements the IBM FlashSystem.

The explosion of structured and unstructured data challenges businesses across every industry. Innovations driven by cloud, analytics, mobile, and social hinder organizations' existing storage capacity for efficiently and cost-effectively managing all of this data.

IBM Executives, Steve Mills, Laura Guio and Inhi Cho Suh, discuss the tipping point of enterprise storage systems.

With the explosion of data, businesses are struggling to manage and extract value from their data. At EDGE, IBM Flash Systems business leader Michael Kuhn will reveal how adding Flash storage to your data fabric will transform your data economics and create a competitive edge. Find out how you can get big data insights in a flash and make the impossible...possible.

"Your doctors for life" is the motto of the Texas based healthcare organization, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. To ensure excellent care to nearly half a million patients at over 20 clinic locations with 375 physicians and as many as 50 different specialist, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic utilizes IBM FlashSystem to run virtual desktops for all doctors and their full time staff of nearly 3,000 employees. IBM FlashSystem is used to dependably deliver EMR's and patient information to clinics throughout the Houston, TX area. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic uses IBM FlashSystem in conjunction with other IBM solutions to save energy, decrease rack space, and provide resilient and reliable IT.

To deliver a targeted cruise experience to each of its 5 million guests, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. selected IBM FlashSystem™ to get information faster and serve customers better. Learn more by clicking on the "Attachments" tab below and reading the case study.

Kroger has benefited from virtualizing Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 databases, something that is unrealistic without flash. In addition to these benefits, Kroger also sees a fundamental shift in storage's role in the datacenter driven by the consumerization of the infrastructure.