Munson Healthcare has a lot of data. Just how much, you ask?

“A thousand gigabytes is a terabyte. And a thousand terabytes is what’s called a petabyte,” Munson’s Chief Information Officer Michael Saad said. “We have several petabytes of data at Munson Healthcare.”

Managing this eye-popping amount of data – much of it highly sensitive – is just one of the many critical tasks of the information technology team at northern Michigan’s largest hospital system.

About 300 in-house employees (and contractors where needed) handle data, networking, security and other IT tasks across the system’s eight hospitals and dozens of additional facilities.

The Traverse City Business News (The Ticker's sister publication) connected with Saad to learn more about the intricacies of IT at Munson, what opportunities lie ahead and what keeps him up at night.

It's one of several features in this month's TCBN, which also includes our very popular What To Watch and a look at this years' inductees in to the Traverse City Business Legends Hall of Fame.

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