How does a specialty nonprofit healthcare provider build a modern, scalable IT infrastructure on a grant-constrained budget?
In this interview, Benjamin Urquhart, CTO of Five Horizons Health Services, details how his organization transitioned from zero internal server infrastructure to running over 53 virtual machines on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure.
Discover how Five Horizons navigated a sudden acquisition in Fall 2022 to preserve care for 3,000 clients, expanded across four new facilities in Mississippi and Alabama in 18 months, and enabled a lean IT team to spin up new virtual machines in just 15 minutes.
Video Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction & Grant-Driven Healthcare IT Constraints
0:45 – Evaluating ROI: Why Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Beat Cloud
1:40 – Navigating the Fall 2022 Acquisition & Preserving Patient Care
2:35 – Scaling from Zero to 53+ VMs Across 4 New Facilities
3:30 – Lean IT Operations: Deploying VMs in 15 Minutes
4:15 – Evolving the Stack: VDI, Containerization & Healthcare Security
Resources & Related Links:
Five Horizons Health Services https://www.fivehorizons.org/
Lean IT Team Scales AI at Alabama Healthcare Provider https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/industry/how-healthcare-ai-creates-new-opportunities-for-treating-patients
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) https://www.nutanix.com/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure
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