Healthcare Data Centers and Cloud Solutions

As a former system administrator that worked in a number of data centers, it’s been really interesting for me to watch the evolution of healthcare data centers and the concept of healthcare cloud solutions. I think we’re seeing a definite switch by many hospital CIOs towards the cloud and away from the hassle and expense of trying to run their own data centers. Plus, this is facilitated greatly by the increased reliability, speed, and quality of the bandwidth that’s available today. Sure, the largest institutions will still have their own data centers, but even those organizations are working with an outside data center as well.

I had a chance to sit down for a video interview with Jason Mendenhall, Executive Vice President, Cloud at Switch Supernap to discuss the changing healthcare data center and cloud environment. We cover a lot of ground in the interview including when someone should use cloud infrastructure and when they shouldn’t. We talk about the security and reliability of a locally hosted data center versus an outside data center. We also talk a little about why Las Vegas is a great place for them to have their data center.

If you’re a healthcare organization who needs a data center (Translation: All of you) or if you’re a healthcare IT company that needs to host your application (Translation: All of you), then you’ll learn a lot from this interview with Jason Mendenhall:

As a side note, the Switch Supernap’s Innevation Center is the location for the Health IT Marketing and PR Conference I’m organizing April 7-8, 2014 in Las Vegas. If you’re attending the conference, we can also set you up for a tour of the Switch Supernap while you’re in Vegas. The tour is a bit like visiting a tech person’s Disneyland. They’ve created something really amazing when it comes to data centers. I know since a secure text message company I advise, docBeat, is hosted there with one of their cloud partners Itrica.