David Bratt, Miami Children's Hospital | EMC World 2014
David Bratt, Director of Technology Services, Miami Children's Hospital, with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at EMC World 2014 https://siliconangle.com/2014/05/20/telemedicine-and-wearable-techs-impact-on-healthcare-regulation-emcworld/ Telemedicine, and wearable tech’s impact on healthcare regulation | #EMCworld  Earlier this month, theCUBE was at EMC World 2014, held at The Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, featuring two live broadcasts for SiliconANGLE. In this interview, Jeff Frick and Steve Kenniston sat down with David Bratt, Director of Technology Services for Miami Children’s Hospital, to discuss how his organization benefits from Isilon, as well as the technologies they’re using for a telemedicine initiative. After a brief introduction on Miami Children’s Hospital, Bratt mentioned that the majority of their infrastructure is “storage, storage, storage.” He said that it’s growing tremendously, and it’s where they spend most of their time. They also manage the network and telecommunications environment, but their storage environment is clearly the one that’s growing the most. How and why Miami Children’s Hospital uses EMC Isilon Bratt went on to explain his team’s involvement with EMC products, having been an Isilon customer for about a year, and that environment alone has tripled since then. Bratt described how they use Isilon for all facets of on-structure data, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) and any type of video repository. They’re also replicating that data for protection. Bratt also said that they chose to go with the Isilon platform because of cost, manageability and ease of use. They wanted something that could grow with the organization, scale rapidly and not cause any complexities during migration. In terms of manageability and ease of use, Bratt said that they no longer need highly trained storage personnel specifically trained at one particular type of an array. They’re now able to manage the product very simply, allocate file shares and assign permissions in the snap of a finger. Kenniston then asked Bratt how much capacity they have under management. Bratt said that they have a half a PB in their environment. They primarily rely on the Isilon technologies with the snaps as well as the replication to their secondary data center for data protection. A typical backup system is used to spin that off the tape and send it off site, but Bratt said it’s rare for them to have to go back to backup their system, which he considers another advantage of the Isilon product. @thecube #theCUBE @SiliconANGLE theCUBE @Dell EMC #EMC #emcworld