NetApp ’ s Dave Nesvisky and Red8 ’ s Eric Sarraf , Luke Lederman and Brandon Kaier discuss their partnership with AltaMed and the services they provide .

Red 8 and NetApp have played a crucial part in non-profit healthcare company AltaMed Health Services transformation . Red8 is a system integrator and consulting firm , specialising in areas such as data centres , cybersecurity , DevOps and operations . For more than 20 years , it has helped customers streamline operations and roll out new technologies . NetApp is a specialist in data management and storage , dedicated to helping customers solve their data challengers whether on-premise , in the cloud or hybrid . It serves organisations of every size in the context of healthcare , from community access hospitals to national health systems . Working together with AltaMed and its CIO Raymond Lowe , the two companies have helped to simplify data management and scale capacity in a nondisruptive manner , while cost-effectively supporting AltaMed ’ s general-purpose business applications . “ Our relationship with AltaMed started around eight years ago ,” says Eric Sarraf , Senior Account Executive at Red8 . “ We deployed their very first data storage systems , and since then we have rolled out a number of NetApp systems . Once Ray joined the organisation , we were really able to expand our services .” Accordingly , Red8 has worked to consolidate fragmented infrastructure , allowing AltaMed to stabilise and grow the core of their managed care business . They also assisted in overall design and deployment of data protection , retention , and encryption systems . NetApp , meanwhile , provides the crucial data management and storage infrastructure , as Dave Nesvisky , Executive Director - Healthcare , explains : “ As the relationship has matured and as the use cases have expanded , AltaMed has enjoyed the benefit and the simplicity of being able to manage all of their data using a common interface - instead of having islands of information and a large portfolio of disparate products . It takes risk out of the equation , and ultimately also saves considerable training costs in different technologies and platforms .” The work they ’ ve done together has had the effect of streamlining operations , and freed up employees to spend less time managing the day-to-day . “ Before , several people were dedicated to just infrastructure ,” says Red8 ’ sSenior Systems Engineer , Luke Lederman . Today , they ’ re in a position where not only can they spend less time managing it , but also where they can scale much more easily as the business grows .” According to Red8 Field CTO Brandon Kaier , It ’ s a relationship born of a keen understanding of the ways technology is transforming the industry . “ Digital transformation for organisations is , at the end of the day , pretty simple . It ’ s gaining unrealised value out of a physical asset through the use of technology . Why the partnership with NetApp and AltaMed is so important is the rise of cloud and cloud applications . Everybody , not just born-digital companies , is trying to figure out how they can accelerate their application development .” The partnership , then , has brought reliable , scalable benefits to the mission critical healthcare environment in which AltaMed operates , doing more with data and freeing up its employees ’ time .

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