Our HealthDynamix professionals offer a variety of assessment services designed to gather specific information about an organization’s environment. These assessments can then be utilized to create a functional roadmap covering architecture, business case, process, and growth strategy. Decisions regarding data center technology can be flawed when only general industry data, technology models, and business cases are presented in the evaluation process. Organizations that first gain knowledge of their environments are able to make the right decisions for one of the most critical areas of the business.
The HealthDynamix Team Offers the Following Assessment Services:
• Storage Economics – Can you improve on the economics of your current data center? How would new technologies play a role in budget savings and improved efficiency? The storage economics assessment will highlight these vital areas.
• Storage Virtualization – Learn how much stranded and unutilized storage exists in your environment. How could application performance be improved, while lowering processing costs? The storage virtualization assessment will give you the information necessary to increase efficiency.
• Server Assessments – What is the right server architecture strategy for my organization’s applications? How efficiently am I using my current resources? How could virtualization impact my footprint, budget, business continuity, and disaster recovery? This assessment uses real data from your environment to show potential, tangible benefits with the proper server architecture strategy
• Backup Assessments – Having issues with your backup windows? Is recovery from tape unrealistic? How much duplicate data am I backing up? Is there a business case for a tapeless environment? These issues and more can be addressed with a backup assessment.
• Archiving Assessments – How much data is my organization storing? What percentage is fixed vs. dynamic? How can you manage and search this information more efficiently? What benefits can I expect from compression and encryption? Explore why your organizations current archive will be critical for your future data management strategy.
he two basic functions of an organization’s IT department are to develop applications and deliver them. Nevertheless, in many IT organizations, application development and delivery are not closely aligned. Symptoms include: poor performing applications or issues with availability. The recent 
The storage and digitization of information is growing exponentially creating new challenges for management and long-term retention of information. Healthcare organizations generate information from various applications and modalities and retain this data for long periods of time; this creates a complex data management challenge. Without a data management strategy, an organization’s costs can spiral and information retrieval can become difficult. Duplication of medical data is often a result of poor retrieval systems or an inability to freely exchange information. 
