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Convergence eases deployment for Fujifilm Medical | #emcworld

Among the attendees at this year’s EMC World conference are companies that have managed to revitalize and update their goals by integrating more modern technology, and their experiences form an important part of the discussions taking place.

Esteban Rubens, senior storage architect at Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, sat down with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to cover topics such as how cloud is influencing their organization, the appeal of convergence and improving deployment to meet strict medical industry regulations more easily.

Convergence and combinations

Asked to describe the business focus of Fujifilm Medical’s operations, Rubens described it as “all related to acquiring, storing [and] processing images for patient images and healthcare.” He also highlighted Fujifilm Medical’s move into digitization in the 1980s, contrasted with Kodak’s analog entrenchment, as a reason for the company managing to stay relevant through those turbulent changes.

Coming back to address pressures on the current state of business affairs, Rubens had words of praise for converged infrastructure and its effects. “It’s hugely important, it’s changed everything, and I think it’s going to speed up our business, it’s going to make us more efficient, it’s going to help us deliver better patient care for our customers, which is ultimately what everything is about,” he said.

Ease of deployment was a major point highlighted. “Hyper-convergence, particularly, helps us to not have to deal with a lot of details when deploying; our customers prefer that too … because it’s all done automatically through orchestration, and crucially combining the compute and storage, and also virtual networking with NSX [VMware, Inc.’s virtual networking and security software product],” he said.

Covering the field

Shifting focus to talk about how Fujifilm Medical operates in the context of interacting with other enterprises, Rubens noted, “We’re in the middle of a revolution with image sharing, particularly with something called VNA [Vendor-Neutral Archive] that’s come along … and there are a lot of initiatives out there to make that image sharing easier.”

He noted that while there were some complications that arose from their functioning as both an independent software vendor and as an integrator, there were advantages to that as well. “It’s very clear when we’re deploying a project when things can be done much more quickly, and they can use our products that much more quickly as well.”

For Fujifilm Medical, its flexible multi-faceted approach means, “We not only need to work with both public, private and hybrid cloud providers, but we build clouds for our customers and we offer cloud services,” Rubens said.

Interacting at EMC World

As someone who has attended multiple EMC World sessions, Rubens described some of its allure with specific experiences.

“For me, [the draw of EMC World is] meeting the people who create the products, going to sessions and talking to people who are responsible for developing things that I architect, and that’s huge,” he said. “And having one-on-ones with people who will then go back and make changes to their product or request features that may be taken into consideration. That’s impossible to find really anywhere else.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of EMC World 2016.

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