Datapipe Chief Technology Officer John Landy discussed today’s IT challenges and how IT professionals can handle such issues during a Thought Leadership Spotlight Presented by Datapipe at the 2015 Chief Information Officer Leadership Forum in Dallas on March 11. In his presentation, Landy noted that IT professionals’ skills are changing, especially as new technologies become available, and organizations must be flexible to understand and manage today’s IT challenges.

1. Evolving IT for Modern
Workloads

2. Enterprises must tackle new complexities...
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58%CIOs say complexity of
existing infrastructure is
delaying broader Cloud
adoption
44AWS price
cuts in the
last 6 years
CIO Insight 2013
500New AWS
Services in 2014
508Average applications in use
within an enterprise
NetSkope
47% Concerned about unauthorized
access to cloud service
InformationWeek
36%Don't integrate cloud applications;
users have separate accounts for
each provider
InformationWeek
62%Cite cloud architecture
skills significantly hard
to find
InformationWeek
Worried about the
potential for runaway
costs of cloud services58%

3. by using a truly hybrid solution…
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Public Cloud Private Cloud Compliant Cloud
HYBRID IT
Traditional IT

4. designed & maintained with an iterative approach…
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Plan
 Client current state analysis, cloud
readiness, planning and solution
design
Build
 Account and security management,
deploy environments and integrate
into IT operations.
Run
 Validation and implementation of
managed operations with ongoing
optimization

5. and agile enough to handle a data deluge
Demands are so varied that constraining in traditional structured data
warehouses or relational database management system (RDBMS) virtually
stops any future analysis
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Example: data source demands of a modern healthcare organization
Legacy EMR Device Integration Transcriptions Home Devices
PACS Clinical Trials Medication Genomics
Financial Radiology Laboratory Quantified Self
RTLS Social Media Bio Repository Pharmacy POS

6. Modern workloads aren’t served by traditional IT
 Relational Databases expand vertically, increasing RAM, CPU and Storage burden
 Monolithic database servers result in single points of failure and scalability issues
 Redundancy & fault tolerance through clustering is not feasible
Limitations of traditional IT infrastructure

7. Utilizing best in breed solutions for each use case
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Flexible/Scalable Data
• Patient scorecards
• Raw demographic data
• ETL processes to load cache into Cassandra
Transactional / Structured Data
• Clinical trial submissions
• Invoices
• Payments
Cached Data
• Currently running social content
• Latest demographic look-up info
Raw Data & Analytics
• Raw patient data from hospital stay monitoring
• Predictive readmission data
• ETL to update patient records
• ETL to update billing systems
Modern healthcare data services

8. But a hybrid approach excels with these workloads
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Modern healthcare architecture

9. With hybrid adoption aided by orchestration
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Partner/Customer Repositories

10. Evolving IT for Modern Workloads
Q&A