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As Kindred Healthcare CIO Rick Chapman begins to discuss storage strategies, he asks a revealing rhetorical question. "The question you should ask me is: why would I be talking to you about this, as opposed to the VP of data center operations?" The simple answer, he explains, is that Kindred's infrastructure and storage costs sit high atop his agenda -- and his executive committee's -- right now.

As wave after wave of new data flows in -- electronic patient records, e-mails, insurance and billing files, and government-mandated documentation -- Chapman feels the squeeze on the overall cost and performance of his IT operations, he says.

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