Hyperconverged infrastructure – is healthcare ready?

In over 30 years of healthcare IT experience, there has been at least one constant: the need to deliver solutions quickly and more cost effectively. This requirement has only escalated over the last few years as health systems are implementing enterprise wide EHRs that require more technology performance and consume significant budget resources. In most cases, the technology and infrastructure teams are being asked to deliver highly resilient platforms in less time while simultaneously reducing capital and operating costs. Hyperconverged infrastructure is not a magic bullet by any measure, however, it can help to deliver some of the expectations and simplify the life of senior IT leaders. Where all the complexity came from Let’s first consider legacy data center management. With traditional infrastructure investments, the technologies were siloed (servers, storage and networking).