More customers around the globe are turning to IBM(NYSE:IBM) and its flash storage systems than any other company for faster access to insights from Big Data. According to a new research report from Gartner, IBM is the worldwide market leader in flash storage solid-state arrays (SSAs) based on revenue for 2013.
Memorial Hermann Health System, which includes 12 acute care hospitals, last year migrated from physical to electronic medical records (EMR) from Cerner Corp., to speed the sharing of patient information among medical staff. The move, which dramatically improved efficiencies, also created a swell of digital information that needed to be quickly accessed for analysis. To do that, the company turned to the IBM FlashSystem 840 and SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization software and the IBM Flex System x240 and saw a dramatic boost in performance.
"By quickly processing the medical records of all patients across our hospitals in real time, it enables us to detect patterns that indicate the onslaught of a bacterial infection that may lead to sepsis and take action within minutes, which can be the difference between life and death," said Robert Murphy, M.D., Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Memorial Hermann.
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"Big Data provides tremendous opportunity for our global clients," said Akhil Kamat, Brand Leader, Storage, STG, IBM India/South Asia. "As organizations look to gain business insight out of the building digital tsunami, more are turning to IBM flash storage as a key accelerator."
IBM offers flash solutions across its expansive storage portfolio, including the IBM FlashSystem 840 and IBM FlashSystem V840 all-flash arrays, and the DS8000 and Storwize V7000 families of advanced storage systems, that can be configured as all-disk, all-flash (Solid-State Drives), or hybrid (disk and flash) systems. In addition, the IBM XIV Storage System can support up to 12 terabytes of flash cache
