Healthcare is experiencing a data explosion. The digitization of imaging and patient records in combination with systems that produce large amounts of unstructured data, has created an environment where data volumes are growing at unprecedented rates. Estimates suggest that modern healthcare generates as much as 30% of the world’s data volume.
All this data is causing an unsustainable demand on IT. Additionally, storage costs for healthcare-related organizations are skyrocketing.
However, much of this data goes unused. Current research indicates that 97% of healthcare data sits untouched and largely siloed. Even though this data is rarely accessed, it consumes valuable storage capacity and administrative effort that could be better allocated elsewhere. More importantly, if all this cold data is hard to access, it makes larger transformation and AI efforts harder to implement successfully.
For many organizations, the problem begins with outdated storage systems. Traditional NAS cannot handle the scale or agility healthcare demands today. It’s also a budget buster. Inaccurate growth forecasts often lead to over-provisioning, wasting budget on capacity that may never be used.
Instead, savvy healthcare IT leaders are turning to NAS alternatives that simplify operations, improve multi-site collaboration, and support their evolving data strategies. Increasingly, they are choosing solutions that are security-first by design, recognizing that storage has become a key element of their businesses’ modernization and resilience strategy.