Lessons Learned From Deploying Clouds in Healthcare

Jay Litkey — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:28:00 +0000

Most IT organizations within the healthcare industry now use server virtualization. Recent polls indicate the majority of these will eventually transition into a private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although the journey from virtualization to the cloud can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path well-traveled by many organizations, including our healthcare customers. This session will leverage case studies and real world lessons gathered over the past seven years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for healthcare data centers making the transition from virtualization to the cloud. In addition, the presentation will share information on virtualization management and cloud automation.

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Private cloud

Automation

virtualization management

healthcare

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Jay

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Litkey

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CEO

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Embotics Corporation

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With extensive experience launching and growing software companies, Jay is a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include virtualization and enterprise systems management automation. For the past 8 years he has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise datacenters.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 15:05

Data Center Efficiency & Scalability

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:06:29 +0000

Nimbula’s Director of Product Management will discuss Nimbula’s learnings over the last few years on how to build and operate a scalable and efficient IaaS cloud. The talk will explain how to design the datacenter, business operations, and applications around the cloud model of IT so that you can achieve an extreme improvement in IT’s scalability while also significantly lowering operational expenses.

Principles of scale
* Building the cloud hierarchically to avoid bottlenecks
* Simplifying cloud networks by flattening them and having a more flexible network isolation model
* Decoupling unrelated concepts such as broadcast domains from tenant isolation
* Scaling out services horizontally to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure

Automation for operational efficiency
* Zero-touch installation of cloud nodes
* Self-healing control plane that ensures a constantly available API without heavy administrator interaction
* Automation of placement of newly provisioned resources based on infrastructure tagging, end user demands, and administrative policy

Organizational efficiency
* Eliminating red tape through self-service of compute, storage, and networks – making sure that tenants can be their own administrators from business logic to network topology, to application management
* Multi-layer delegation – distribute authority and drive decisions on access to the lowest level possible so that decisions made by the people with the actual responsibility for the data, the applications, and the business results
* Cross-tenant collaboration – Enable cloud tenants to work together securely, quickly, and without the need for arbitration by the cloud administrator
* Decoupling roles – Make sure that any role – cloud administrator, tenant administrator, and end user can do their work without the need to wait on work from another role to proceed. Have end users work within predefined constraints but have complete freedom within those boundaries.

Application architecture
* Stateless scale-out applications – Not all applications take advantage of the cloud. By eliminating state from the bulk of the application instances and by scaling out applications, you can decouple the operation of the application from the internals of the infrastructure, freeing the application administrator to manage the applications without assistance from the cloud administrator

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Speaker First Name:

Jay

Speaker Last Name:

Judkowitz

Speaker Job Title:

Director of Product Management

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Nimbula

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Jay Judkowitz runs product management at Nimbula, a leading cloud software startup. Before Nimbula, Jay was at VMware for over eight years where he drove products like Site Recovery Manager and Storage VMotion. Jay started his career as a hands on IT practitioner at Intel, where he personally experienced many of the pains that drive the need for cloud computing and where he implemented some of the early products that tried to solve those pains. From Intel's IT, to VMware, to Nimbula, Jay has been intimately involved in the growth of the technologies that will soon make ubiquitous cloud computing a reality.

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Lessons Learned From Deploying Clouds in Healthcare

Data Center Efficiency & Scalability