The Implications of a Multi-Cloud Environment

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POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT

DATA BREACHES,RANSOMWARE & CYBERSECURITY

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER

CONSOLIDATION

These trends are posing new challenges and driving data center transformation.

PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

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IMPROVED PATIENT EXPERIENCE CYBERSECURITY

IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY

BUSINESS CONTINUITYMANAGING COSTS

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Patient Experience

Cost of Care

Population Health

PROVIDERS

POPULATION PATIENTS

ADOPT ADVANCE ASPIRE EXCEL

CUSTOMER INNOVATION

80% TRAFFIC DESTINED FOR THE INTERNET

Cloud Adoption

2x EVERY 18 MONTHS Bandwidth Demand

IT Transformation Leads to Cloud Adoption and Bandwidth DemandThe network must evolve to deliver: Improved cloud-based application performance •

More cost effective bandwidth • 100% Uptime

Support Organization

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“I predict that 5 years from now none of us will have datacenters,” Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka said in Healthcare IT News

"I used to be so proud of my datacenter," Carolinas Chief Information and Analytics Officer

Craig Richardville said. "Now I just can't wait to get rid of my datacenter.“

According to QTS, by 2020, 80% of healthcare data will pass through the cloud

$ is going there – cloud spending in Healthcare was $3.7B in 2015 and expected to be $9.5B by 2020 – MarketsandMarkets

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QCloud3 What are the top specific applications that you have in the cloud today? Please enter at least one application. QCloud4 What specific applications or workloads are you planning to send to the cloud in the next 12 months? Please enter at least one application or workload.

APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY IN THE CLOUD APPLICATIONS PLANNING TO MOVE TO THE CLOUD IN FUTURE

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Companies are looking for flexibility

Changing workflows and traffic patterns

Limited access options—especially remote

Minimal WAN design/performance insights

Application performance is critical for healthcare providers, a doctor waiting for an EHR to respond is costly

Increased costs and rural locationscomplexity

Cloud apps/services driving providers to:• Optimize business efficiencies• Protect critical data• Enhance user experience

across all paths

Challenge:

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Why SD-WAN for healthcare providers?SD-WAN is a hybrid wide area network (WAN) solution that dynamically routes traffic improving clinical application performance, scales bandwidth at an affordable price and increase availability.

Solution:

Scale bandwidth at affordable price

Increased business continuity

Improve Clinical Application

Performance

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64% of U.S.-based companies are in stages of planning to implement or expanding implementation from a traditional WAN to an SD-WAN solution in the next 12 months1

1. Forrester’s Business Technographics Network & Telecommunications Survey, 2016

Cloud magnifies impact of outages• Lost productivity and lost revenues• Last mile is Achilles’ heel• Single points of failure = ticking time

bombs

Simple, affordable and scalable solutions• Ensure business continuity • Highly available connectivity • Simple and affordable

Redundancy• Duplicate network components• Makes the system more resilient• But not holistic

Diversity• Looks at every component in a path• Eliminates single points of failure• End-to-end design

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Opportunity• Single point of failure between the hospitals with minimal redundancy in WAN Bandwidth• High cost of COLO ( > $ .5 M per Annum); Aging and end of life servers and network equipment

(Avg. > 7 Years).• Limited usage of remote management tools inhibiting ‘Lights out’ DC and delays in problem

resolution• Scalability needs due to newer applications being built and deployed

Solution• Partnered with GAVS to consolidate the operations elements into outcome driven model –

Datacenter as a Service comprising of Colo, WAN (MPLS Fixed wireless, 4G), Server H/W refresh, Network hardware refresh, DC management tools, License & support

• Upgraded the network and built-in redundancy through blended port MPLS/INTERNET solution with each site having redundant transport methods built-in

Results• Network is more redundant and the increased bandwidth make our systems and applications agile• Highly scalable infrastructure to support all clinical applications • Enhanced SLAs

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It’s cost-effectiveImproved Clinical Application

Performance

It’s available

Better Connectivity for Better Care