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What's interesting about physicians is they're really good with technology, but they're really
particular about how that technology works. They just want, they want it to be reliable.
It's got to be convenient. It's got to be cost effective, and I think it has to give
them a sense of control.
My name is Dr. Todd Rowland, and I'm an expert in macro-formatics which is a field where
we're basically combining clinical medicine with information technology to really result
in better healthcare.
Because healthcare is been under, traditionally been underinvesting in IT in the clinical
space. I'm always looking at new technologies with the hospital system and I get surprisingly
involved in some of the back-end infrastructure because it has a big impact on the workflow.
So when I see something like a clustering technology that can help us prevent disasters
and can help us do fail over activities in a way that's cost effective, I'm pretty interested
in that.
So that to me, with the clustering approach that storage room networks use, really is
attractive because it's basically saying, hey, things are gonna go wrong sometimes,
and, you know, anticipate those worst case scenarios and have technology handle the first
three, four, five steps of that, and before a human being has to recognize it.
And I think our feeling is solve that problem just as it happens or before it happens, rather
than having to respond to it several hours later. And everybody would take one problem
and have a different angle on it. So the IT group, security group, the HIPAA group is
going to look at it a certain way, and the physicians are going to look at it a different
way.
It's really the same problem, but they tend to express that very differently. So then
I think the third generation, you know, technologies are really going to be attractive to the healthcare
community, you know, as we mature in our use of clinical IT.
So to me, Scale is an interesting company and they look like they really bring something
into healthcare that had not been brought in by other storage or network groups so far.
Ultimately the physicians don't care what we have in the infrastructure, they just want
it to work and they want it to be reliable,predictable . Say, if I'm ready to do something it better
be there, and if I'm going to go look up a record it better be there fast enough, whether
it's something that got stored ten years ago, or something that got stored today.