Pat Harkins (pictured, right), chief technical officer of informatics and technology services at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, believes he’s found a handy way to stretch his organization’s funding dollars and those of its partners.

Harkins was joined by Chhandomay Mandal, director of product marketing at Dell EMC, in an interview with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during Dell EMC World in Las Vegas, Nevada. (* Disclosure below.)

Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre located in Barrie, near Ontario, Canada, is facing a shortage of resources, even as its responsibilities toward partners in the region increase, according to Harkins.

“We host Meditech [electronic health records] for a number of other hospitals in our area,” Harkin said. “We’re currently looking to expand that and increase our volume, but also change platforms as well.”

To acheive this, Harkins and the information technology team at RVH are adopting Dell EMC’s all-flash array XtremIO, which provides consistent high-performance and low-latency regardless of the bulk or number of workloads consolidated on it, Mandal explained.

In-memory metadata and techniques for reducing superfluous data allow storage operations to take place at the control plane level without touching the plane that data actually lives, he stated. “We do not store anything that is not unique to that entire cluster,” Mandal said, adding that workloads can even run on copies themselves.

This results in a reduced footprint, lower cost and a savings in rack space, power and cooling in the data center, Mandal added.

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The savings in cost, time and operating hours allows RVH to serve its partners in ways it never imagined, Harkins stated. “We want to be able to not even necessarily go to the cloud but become a private cloud for our partners,” he said.

Basing operations in its own IT room, “We’ll be able to spread that out, not only from the storage, but compute side, as well as virtualization, VDI [Virtual Desktop Interface] desktops and so forth,” Harkins concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Dell EMC World 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell EMC World. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial influence on content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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