SIRIUS COMPUTER SOLUTIONS
SIRIUS AND ITS PARTNERSHIPS WITH IBM NETAPP AND MICROSOFT
“ The main benefit is that we ’ re [ all ] just trying to take care of patients , period ”
KEVIN TORRES CTO AND CISO , MEMORIALCARE
to where their data was physically located , whether in the cloud or the data centre , to determine if the solution could be used effectively as a backup if and when there was downtime on the main production system .
“ What happened in-between all this testing is quite interesting ,” says Torres . “ With all the ransomware attacks you ’ ve heard about in the media , there ’ s a requirement to protect your data at all costs , and the backup can ’ t be on the same physical network as your production system ,” he explains .
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“ We have a great partnership with all of them ,” says Salim . “ Frankly , the reason those partners are there is due to Kevin and MemorialCare having partnership with those people . So when we started looking at this project and building out this project , you know , Kevin is an IBM shop running AIX , which is what the backend platform was . We ’ re happy with IBM , which is the largest reseller in the world .
“ With NetApp , we have a great partnership MemorialCare uses them for storage needs . I think we are NetApp ' s largest partners , so that ’ s great . Now we have a server technology , and we have a storage technology that ' s been true and proven in a healthcare organisation that we partner with today . Then we have Microsoft . When we started talking about who the cloud provider should be , Kevin said , ‘ We have a corporate agreement with Microsoft and with Azure , and we ' d like to start there .’ So it was really customer-driven at the end of the day , all of this work , and we have supported every one of them because we ' ve got great partnerships .”
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