SIRIUS COMPUTER SOLUTIONS
KEVIN TORRES
TITLE : CTO & CSO COMPANY : MEMORIALCARE
clinical applications , such as EMRs when systems go down . Patients can ’ t afford a long downtime should something happen such as an outage or a ransomware attack ; their health and wellbeing are literally at stake . “ The core of our business is to take care of patients , and we leverage the electronic medical record ( EMR ) in order to accomplish that ,” says Torres . “ It has to be available all the time . And even if it does go down , you better have a backup system .”
Full backup and redundancy systems are expensive to buy and maintain , however , so MemorialCare and Sirius set out to create a lower-cost , highly reliable and resilient solution . Working together with their mutual partners Microsoft Azure , NetApp and IBM , they created a Hybrid-Cloud Disaster Recovery ( DR ) solution that would allow them to activate and scale up or down on-demand , based on usage . Already in play , the Innovation Lab allowed them to test and solve for any latency issues or challenges related
EXECUTIVE BIO
Kevin Torres , V . P . of Information
Technology for MemorialCare , has spent over 25 years of his career in healthcare IT and information systems . He currently oversees the CTO and CISO functions for all entities within the MemorialCare Health System . Kevin was also formerly Adjunct Professor at California State University ( 2002-2012 ) in the HealthCare Administration program , creating many internship opportunities . He has published several Information Technology articles , including an article featured the International Journal of Public Administration , which he co-authored . Kevin is on the Advisory Board for The Children ’ s Clinic of Long Beach , was designated Orange County “ top walker / fundraiser ” three years in a row for the March of Dimes , and was featured in a Cisco case study showcasing Hyperconverged technology solutions .