CIO magazine for the North America region . This month ’ s cover features John Gaede , Director of Information Services , Sky Lakes Medical Center .

We look at how Sky Lakes Medical Center , an internationally accredited acute-care teaching hospital serving more than 80,000 people in Oregon and California , has deployed Cohesity to manage backup and its unstructured data .

As its new Disaster Recovery ( DR ) platform Cohesity has become a cornerstone to its IT security , helping Sky Lakes recover from a ransomware attack . environment that we direct all new workloads to Nutanix ,” noted Kevin Priest , Senior Director at The Home Depot .

“ Nutanix is a unified , hyperconverged platform that allows us to build , expand and tear down VMs much faster than before . Our developers used to have to wait three weeks for us to provision technology resources to them . With Nutanix , it ’ s done in less than an hour .” There ’ s much more to discover about this story on p61 .

In this month ’ s CIO Opinion , Michael Jack , CRO , Datadobi , tells us how an unstructured data management solution can make sense of an organization ’ s data and maximize its potential .

“ We ’ re trying to deliver quality healthcare with limited budget and resources ,” explains Gaede . “ Cohesity is reliable and on top of that , we get the ease-of-use value and the speed at which it performs .

“ All of Cohesity ’ s innovation helps our engineers do something immediately and then quickly move to the next task . Now as my team says , it ’ s also putting ransomware extortionists out of business .” You can find out more details about the project by turning to p56 .

Elsewhere , we take a look at how The Home Depot , the world ’ s largest home improvement retailer , is standardizing on Nutanix to accelerate software development and reduce TCO to create a better customer experience .

“ Current unstructured data management tools provide nothing in the way of data integrity management . And so the list goes on . Luckily , there is a solution ,” said Jack . “ With the right tools , organizations can fill this gap and take control of their unstructured data and exploit its untapped value .” To discover more turn to p44 .

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