By adopting a hybrid data storage architecture, healthcare organizations can focus on growing their businesses while reducing storage infrastructure costs.

1. WHAT HEALTHCARE
ORGANIZATIONS
NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
HYBRID DATA
STORAGE

2. Healthcare organizations
are under pressure to
cut costs and
improve patient care.

3. One of the best ways
to do this in IT is to
reduce storage
infrastructure in
favor of more efficient
and more flexible
cloud-based
solutions.

4. The American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA) says that while
health records and other medical
information are being digitized,
legacy infrastructure cannot
keep up with the load.

5. By adopting a hybrid data storage
architecture,organizations can:
• Preserve investments in
legacy systems
• Significantly reduce IT costs
• Rapidly deploy the latest
systems and services

6. Of course,every
data solution has its
pros and cons.

7. Cloud-based applications are more
than those trapped in static data silos.

8. Resource consumption is no longer
a fixed cost but can be scaled
according to application demands.
and

9. Reduced on-prem infrastructure also
speeds up deployment times
and allows admins to concentrate
more on app performance rather than
infrastructure maintenance.

10. Meanwhile, the cons related to hybrid
storage are usually easier and less
costly to resolve than those found in
traditional data environments.
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11. Cloud outages can and do occur, but
a hybrid approach allows apps to be
protected both on prem
and in the cloud to ensure
data access when it’s needed.

12. Security and compliance becomes a
shared responsibility in the cloud,
leaving healthcare providers dependent
on their cloud partners’ performance.

13. Some cloud providers
are addressing
this through
dedicated compliant
infrastructure and
services, much of it
optimized for
healthcare and
other industry verticals.

14. And, functions like security
and compliance often reside
on the application layer or
become embedded in the
data itself, rather than in
infrastructure or middleware.

15. ONE BIG CHALLENGE:
determining which data to store
on any given set of resources
throughout the hybrid environment.

16. A typical starting point is to migrate
less-critical workloads to the
cloud to gain experience for the gradual
deployment of higher-level data.

17. In some cases, but not all,
applications may need to
be recoded to function
within a virtualized,
distributed architecture.

18. Partners HealthCare wanted to consume storage in a more
elastic way and reduce the huge costs that come with
managing growing data.
Partners HealthCare: A hybrid cloud case study

19. This is a pressing need for enterprises that must make primary
data accessible to users at low latency, no matter where
they reside, and remain accessible even during outages.
Partners HealthCare: A hybrid cloud case study

20. The Partners HealthCare adoption of ClearSky Data reduces
the organization’s reliance on its traditional storage arrays
and creates an elastic target for a variety of workloads in a
hybrid infrastructure.
Partners HealthCare: A hybrid cloud case study

21. ClearSky’s Smart Tiered Caching™
automatically caches hot data
at the edge of the customer’s
applications and warm data
in a PoP within 120 miles, and
it stores all data in multiple
cloud locations.

22. By reducing data center
footprints, ClearSky Data
customers can focus on
growing their businesses
and reduce storage
infrastructure costs
by up to 80 percent.

23. Want to learn more about how your healthcare organization
can take advantage of a global hybrid storage architecture?
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