| The Healthcare Server Consolidation Dream | | | | Healthcare IS professionals Although most |
| Because the storage and storage management | | | | healthcare IS environments are not yet taking |
| needs of many Healthcare Information Systems | | | | advantage of virtual server expansion and |
| are more than doubling each year, IT | | | | contraction capabilities today, it is possible to |
| professionals dream of robust data on-demand | | | | "borrow" CPU and/or memory capacity from |
| environments that allow their storage area | | | | servers, which are currently not being "taxed", |
| network environments to be capable of | | | | and return that same CPU and memory capacity |
| processing data from chemistry analyzers to | | | | back to their original "owners"- in their original |
| radiology picture archiving information systems, | | | | state. Imagine healthcare information server |
| AND at the same time be able to maintain patient | | | | systems being spoofed to think they have |
| data records and Email systems. | | | | unlimited CPU and memory capacity and |
| The Reality of Storage Virtualization | | | | subsequently never again surpassing processing or |
| Luckily, the dream world of server "morphing" - | | | | workload thresholds! |
| or server virtualization - is becoming a reality for | | | | |