8KMiles is a leading cloud solutions provider that helps pharmaceutical and life sciences companies securely adopt cloud technologies. It has over 175 customers migrated to AWS and has established standards and frameworks to address security, compliance, cultural and operational challenges of moving to the cloud. 8KMiles' CloudEzRx framework provides capabilities for provisioning resources, implementing analytical platforms, data sharing and disaster recovery in a compliant manner for the life sciences industry.

1. How Pharmaceuticals Are Securely Embracing The Cloud

2. AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) PREMIER
PARTNER with 6+ years of success in onboarding and
migrating over 175 customers to the AWS Cloud
CHAIRED AND INFLUENCED many of the
standards our customers use today
Recognized by 451 Group – 8K MILES CROSSES
THE CHASM IN CLOUD-BASED IDENTITY
FEDERATION
Built a powerful TEST DRIVE FRAMEWORK for
AWS to move enterprise software customers onto
Cloud – E.g., Alfresco, CA, Red Hat, Trend Micro
Enabled over 10 MILLION federated user transactions
and enabled 300+ SaaS and enterprise applications
MARKET LEADERSHIP
8KMiles is a leading
provider of end to end
Cloud Solutions that
meet the unique needs
of the Pharmaceutical,
Life Science and
Healthcare Markets

3. Panelists
Shah Nawaz
Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture
Shire Pharmaceuticals
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nawazshah
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Sudish Mogli
VP, Engineering
8KMiles Software Services
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudishmogli
Disclaimer: All content and opinions expressed in
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and not necessarily those of Shire Pharmaceutical.
References made in the slides are for informational
purposes only. It doesn’t claim to be any current or
past employers strategy and/or position. Shire
Pharmaceutical does not guarantee the accuracy
or reliability of the information provided herein.
The panelists or speakers will not be liable for any
errors or omissions in this presentation nor for the
availability of this information.

4. • Trends
• Drivers
• Inhibitors & Considerations on overcoming those
• How 8KMiles is helping Clients
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Topics

5. Trends
Life sciences companies
will engage with other
members of the value
chain (for example,
patients and clinicians) to
improve patient
outcomes.
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New Medicines and
services will be
developed using an
entirely new paradigm
drawing on external
innovation and data from
multiple sources
Convergence of
Technologies, enabled
and driven by the cloud,
will further enable life
sciences companies to
act globally and open the
door to new partnership
and expanded markets
Source: GigaOm, Accenture
Credit : Shutterstock

6. DRIVERS
Cost Scalability Agility

7. •SECURITY
•CULTURE
•COMPLIANCE
•OPERATION
INHIBTORS

8. Security, by far remains the biggest concern, however numerous
Technology advancement made in the last 3 years that can help
mitigate these gaps.
Security
Recommendation
Build a Security
Architecture in the context
of Cloud
Maintain Security Heat
Maintain Manageability
Deployment Model
Source: Mckensie, 8KMiles

9. Culture is still the King. Cloud is Distributive and it will affect the
organization culture, the way things are developed, run, operated &
delivered. Every organization adoption will vary.
Culture
Recommendation
Focus on the Business
Outcome
Traditional Mode
Nonlinear Mode
Accept Instability
DevOps
Automation
Agile Development
SOA Method
(ITIL, CMMi, COBIT)
Required Reliability
Ops
Minimum Automation
System of Innovation
System of Differentiation
System of Record
Loosely Coupled
Tightly Coupled
Iterative Development
Sequential Development
Non-Iterative Development
Cost Scalability Agility
Adopt Bi-Modal IT
Establish Governance
Model
Define required
outcome
Define Require
Control
Test Outcomes
and controls
Hold owners
accountable
Operate and end-to-end view of
GRC across entire environment
Ensure all decision consider
holistic risk and Impact of Cloud
to IT Function
Ensure Governance input into
cloud transformation lifecycle
Deliver
Infrastructure
outcome
Monitor and
Manage
Infrastructure
Control
Deliver
Application
Outcome
Monitor and
Manage
Application
control
Shared Responsibility
Shared Governance Functions
Infrastructure and Operations
Application Development

10. Requirement
Compliance
GxP Electronic Record
Keeping Control
Qualified Infrastructure
Standard Operating
Procedures ( SOPs)
Trained personnel (
Including IT )
System Validations
Record Availability Record Integrity Record Retention
Traceability
Design
Specification
User
Requirement
Specification
Test
Specification
Deployment
Specification
Adopt DevOps ( Automation )
User
Acceptance
 Codify your Infrastructure
 Pre-Qualify your environment prior to
loading GxP Workloads
 Build Pre-validated images for Cloud
Usage
 Adopt a version control & release
methodology
 Automate your stack as much as you can
 Automate your Testing
 Adopt V-Model by Design )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Model_(software_development))
Specification Verification Acceptance
Agree on Data
Center
Certification level (
i.e SAS 70, ISO / )
Decide how IQ &
OQ Portion of the
Part 11 Guidelines
will be supported
in Cloud
Environment
Integrate Provider
Auditing part of
VMP ( Validation
Master Plan )
Recommendation
Org Dependent
Regulatory consideration for use of cloud computing will
matter depending on the services you consume. Not all
services are created equally to satisfy compliance requirements.

11. Operation will be different, Tower Concept will not work, hence
consider adopting capabilities that can provide the appropriate
assurance and governance to operate your cloud services
Operate
Operational Capabilities Considerations
“As cloud services and user consumption model continue to evolve, so must capabilities for
effective management of this environment”

12. CloudEzRx ™ Framework
“Framework designed for Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry that are
considering running highly sensitive/regulated workloads in the Public Cloud”
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Enterprise Cloud Engagement Platform
Manage and Operate your Cloud Lifecycle
Self-Service Portal
IAM Control Service Market Place
Financial Management Security | Audit | Compliance
Validated Platform
ServiceExtensible
Validated Security Architecture
Validated Service Development & Qualified Network Reference Architecture
GxP|HIPAA|Reporting
AcceleratedQualifiedTemplates
Cloud Control
(Operate)
Key Benefits To Our Customers
Documented Design |
Test & Verification
Specification
Validated Platform
to consume any
Cloud IaaS/PaaS
Services
Qualified Solutions
Stack
Proven SIEM for
Life Science in a
Cloud
Operating Best
Practices

13. Selected use Cases
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Use
Cases
Resource
Provisioning
Automation
Implementing
Analytical Platform
in a Public Cloud
Drug trial analysis
Efficient data
sharing and
management
HPC Workload
Processing
Cloud Operational
Platform
Development
Lifecycle
Disaster Recovery
Data
Retention/Archive

14. www.8kmiles.com
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