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Real-time It supports the capability to find the right insight at the right time to drive improved clinical and operational outcomes.
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On-Demand and self-driving It prioritizes automation at its core and leverages machine learning to provide high levels of availability and proactive support. A data-centric architecture should be easy to provision and evolve with your needs.
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Exceptionally reliable and secure. This is a must — especially when it comes to critical patient data and protected health information.
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Support for multi-cloud environments. It easily allows storage volumes to be moved to and from the cloud, making application and data migration simple, and enabling hybrid use cases for application development, deployment, and protection. Many organizations have become comfortable with the concept of private cloud either within their data center or through remote hosting agreements. Some are moving workloads to the public cloud. A data-centric architecture delivers the flexibility to take advantage of the public cloud when and how an organization chooses.
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Ready for tomorrow. Users expect the cloud to continuously get better, without downtime, delivering more value every year for the same or lower cost. Healthcare organizations should expect the same for their storage infrastructure. They must architect for constant improvement so that storage services can be seamlessly improved, without ever bringing users offline.
A data-centric architecture will enable healthcare organizations to take advantage of the hybrid cloud — avoiding building a new generation of silos, managing the inherent complexity of their environments, and advancing their ability to make the most of their valuable data — whether in the cloud or on-premises. It also will help organizations protect data and ensure IT resilience and regulatory compliance — not only for systems today, but also for systems implemented to address tomorrow’s business needs.
About the author: Josh Gluck, vice president of global healthcare technology strategy, Pure Storage, has over 20 years of experience as an IT executive and has spent the last 15 years focused on healthcare IT, using his expertise to lead teams in the support of medical education, biomedical research, and patient care. Gluck is an adjunct assistant professor of Health Policy & Management at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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