The Hybrid Cloud: Collaborate and Share Content with External Entities While Protecting Confidential Information

MatthewMeigs — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:21:04 +0000

Life sciences companies operate in an increasingly virtual environment in which suppliers, sub-contractors and other external entities must have access to core documentation and participate in mission-critical processes. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies can no longer be isolated silos, and the reality of this environment has created the need for a more effective solution for sharing, yet protecting, GxP-critical and HIPAA-critical content, as well as other sensitive documentation such as IP rights or patents.

This has led to an increasing demand to elevate information management and related processes off the ground and into the cloud. Cloud-based applications and platforms deliver numerous advantages over on-premise solutions, and represent a significant shift in how life sciences organizations store, manage, access, protect and share digital content. But should you abandon your existing systems and jump into the cloud, or are there advantages to maintaining on-premise servers and software deployments? The good news is that you don’t have to make this choice.

In the heavily regulated life sciences industry it's often preferred to keep specific applications and information on-premise behind the company firewall. A hybrid cloud model can prove to be the ideal manner for bridging the gap between the need to store certain data on-premise and the potential to improve business operations with cloud-based services.

With a hybrid cloud model, life sciences companies can replicate selected content to the cloud for collaborating with external parties, such as subcontractors, supplier, outsourced manufacturers, CROs, sponsors, customers, and clinical sites - while still securing sensitive information behind the firewall within an on-premise repository. In addition, this approach enables organizations to move content from an active cloud-based repository to an on-premise archive repository for long-term retention, which addresses demanding records management requirements as well as those associated with regulatory or quality compliance.

Session attendees will learn how a hybrid cloud-based approach to information management can significantly improve quality systems and compliance-related activities, while ensuring confidential information is secure and protected.

Keywords:

hybrid cloud

information management

Speaker First Name:

Mika

Speaker Last Name:

Salonoja

Speaker Job Title:

Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

M-Files Inc.

Speaker Bio:

Mr. Mika Salonoja has 16 years of life-science-IT experience. His past duties include Head of IT at the Finnish Genome Center, a high-throughput genomics core facility; Chief Technology Officer at GeneOS ltd., the first Finnish commercial biobank and provider of biomarker validation services; and Chief Information Officer at Encorium Group, a global Contract Research Organization. His current position is Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences at M-Files Inc., a provider of regulatory compliant content management, document management and quality management solutions.

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Speaker's LinkedIn Profile:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=99711358&locale=en_US&trk=tyah

Speaker's Twitter profile:

@MikaSalonoja

Speaker's Postal Address:

5050 Quorum Drive, Suite 600 Dallas, TX 75254

Oregon Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 14:30

6th annual Cloud Slam 2014 Cloud Computing Conference, San Francisco CA, June 4, 2014. Cloud Computing Events 2014 - information management

The Hybrid Cloud: Collaborate and Share Content with External Entities While Protecting Confidential Information