IBM offers services and software that businesses can use in support of their infrastructure. And its technology has even influenced the healthcare industry and provided support to multiple hospitals. The Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, in particular, has converted to an all-flash, storage-based infrastructure by partnering with IBM.

Greg McCoy, manager of IT Architecture at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, talked with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during IBM Edge 2016 about how Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has addressed its infrastructure.

Wearing many hats

The Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital is a smaller hospital in Valencia, CA, that holds over 230 beds. Although it’s a smaller hospital, it’s the only one in town and receives a high volume of patients, according to McCoy. As such, its smaller IT team has to handle a variety of roles and are expected to “wear many hats,” said McCoy.

McCoy came into his role as the “server guy” but later became everything else the role needed. His team has learned and accomplished a lot due to their generalized technical knowledge.

Since its IT team is small, the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital likes to operate on simple systems, according to McCoy. Using IBM’s FlashSystem V9000, the hospital was able to run on an infrastructure where its engineers “weren’t always checking the system,” said McCoy.

A simpler system allows the hospital to focus more on helping patients and less on shaky software. They were able to “really look at the performance metrics,” said McCoy.

High performance

With IBM’s infrastructure systems, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital was able to not only enhance its performance, but redistribute assets in a way that added greater value. They didn’t just have a tech refresh, they had an entire “tech upgrade,” said McCoy.

The high-performing infrastructure allowed data that was traditionally limited to silos to run simultaneously on a single stack, according to McCoy.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM Edge 2016.

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