Scott Hunter, Global Infrastructure Services Director at AstraZeneca, talks with Lisa Martin & Stu Miniman at Commvault GO 2019 from Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, CO.
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https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/qa-evolved-data-strategy-helps-pharmaceutical-org-find-leading-edge-medicine-commvaultgo/
Q&A: Evolved data strategy helps pharmaceutical org find leading-edge medicine
Data is worth more than gold for research-based pharmaceutical organizations like AstraZeneca PLC. Efficient analysis of this data can do so much for the industry — it can find cures hidden in the patient’s data, automate research processes, and save lives. But if there is a breach or loss in patient data, lawsuits can be scary. And that’s not all, data loss in these cases can be a matter of life and death.
Cyberattacks and disasters happen, and often times they are targeted to these types of organizations. So having an efficient strategy to instantly restore sensitive patient data is of paramount importance. Starting with a centralized data strategy is helping AstraZeneca, and other health companies, to efficiently store, backup, restore, and perform analysis of key data, according to Scott Hunter (pictured), global infrastructure services director at AstraZeneca.
Data protection and information management company Commvault Systems Inc. is helping organizations like AstraZeneca to centralize and protect data into a one-stop strategy for all their on-premises and cloud environments.
“As more and more of our applications move over on the Commvault platform, then we’ll have a more rounded approach to not only back-up success, but success in the restore and saving things … as well as using the data analytics in a more timely fashion, again for drug and manufacturing research,” Hunter said. “So our back-up for our critical set applications is 99.8% successful.”
Hunter spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Commvault GO event in Aurora, Colorado. They discussed AstraZeneca’s data strategy and back up and restore solutions (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)
[Editor’s note: The following has been condensed for clarity.]
Miniman: So Scott, What does data mean to your organization?
Hunter: It means lots of things to AstraZeneca, from how we go about finding that next molecule to discover leading-edge medicines for our patients, all the way to how our salespeople in commercial use data identify the right patients for the right care as well. And, of course, back-office through IT and everyday functions, like HR and finance, as well. So we look after everything either on-premise within our own data centers and the public cloud. So as you can imagine data movement in their own realms in that kind of environment is pivotal to the company being successful going forward.
Martin: So, talk to us about when you came on board. Knowing how critical data is to AstraZeneca’s business, what was the data strategy like a few years ago?
Hunter: When I first joined AstraZeneca, we were largely outsourced to various companies, so we basically didn’t have a [data strategy]. We didn’t really have much of a strategy for looking after data, with five or six different backup products but the same amount of online data storage products as well. So over the last five, six years, we’ve kind of streamlined that down to one key data storage provider in the app and also for backup and restore.
Martin: In terms of the opportunities that [a data strategy] provided the company, where did that initiative come from? Talk to us a little bit about that initiative and the initial directions to where you are now.
Hunter: Our ex-CIO … had a vision for how the company was going to progress and excel in his tenure, and a massive part of that was understanding where our data was, how it was used, and most importantly, how it was protected as well. So, that kind of drove the end solution from the likes of HCL, Cognizant emphasis into looking after our own environments, looking after our own data approaches and strategies as well.
Miniman: So you’re leveraging the public cloud. How does Commvault fit into that discussion?
...
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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Scott Hunter, Global Infrastructure Services Director at AstraZeneca, talks with Lisa Martin & Stu Miniman at Commvault GO 2019 from Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, CO.
#CommvaultGo #AstraZeneca #theCUBE
https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/qa-evolved-data-strategy-helps-pharmaceutical-org-find-leading-edge-medicine-commvaultgo/
Q&A: Evolved data strategy helps pharmaceutical org find leading-edge medicine
Data is worth more than gold for research-based pharmaceutical organizations like AstraZeneca PLC. Efficient analysis of this data can do so much for the industry — it can find cures hidden in the patient’s data, automate research processes, and save lives. But if there is a breach or loss in patient data, lawsuits can be scary. And that’s not all, data loss in these cases can be a matter of life and death.
Cyberattacks and disasters happen, and often times they are targeted to these types of organizations. So having an efficient strategy to instantly restore sensitive patient data is of paramount importance. Starting with a centralized data strategy is helping AstraZeneca, and other health companies, to efficiently store, backup, restore, and perform analysis of key data, according to Scott Hunter (pictured), global infrastructure services director at AstraZeneca.
Data protection and information management company Commvault Systems Inc. is helping organizations like AstraZeneca to centralize and protect data into a one-stop strategy for all their on-premises and cloud environments.
“As more and more of our applications move over on the Commvault platform, then we’ll have a more rounded approach to not only back-up success, but success in the restore and saving things … as well as using the data analytics in a more timely fashion, again for drug and manufacturing research,” Hunter said. “So our back-up for our critical set applications is 99.8% successful.”
Hunter spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Commvault GO event in Aurora, Colorado. They discussed AstraZeneca’s data strategy and back up and restore solutions (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)
[Editor’s note: The following has been condensed for clarity.]
Miniman: So Scott, What does data mean to your organization?
Hunter: It means lots of things to AstraZeneca, from how we go about finding that next molecule to discover leading-edge medicines for our patients, all the way to how our salespeople in commercial use data identify the right patients for the right care as well. And, of course, back-office through IT and everyday functions, like HR and finance, as well. So we look after everything either on-premise within our own data centers and the public cloud. So as you can imagine data movement in their own realms in that kind of environment is pivotal to the company being successful going forward.
Martin: So, talk to us about when you came on board. Knowing how critical data is to AstraZeneca’s business, what was the data strategy like a few years ago?
Hunter: When I first joined AstraZeneca, we were largely outsourced to various companies, so we basically didn’t have a [data strategy]. We didn’t really have much of a strategy for looking after data, with five or six different backup products but the same amount of online data storage products as well. So over the last five, six years, we’ve kind of streamlined that down to one key data storage provider in the app and also for backup and restore.
Martin: In terms of the opportunities that [a data strategy] provided the company, where did that initiative come from? Talk to us a little bit about that initiative and the initial directions to where you are now.
Hunter: Our ex-CIO … had a vision for how the company was going to progress and excel in his tenure, and a massive part of that was understanding where our data was, how it was used, and most importantly, how it was protected as well. So, that kind of drove the end solution from the likes of HCL, Cognizant emphasis into looking after our own environments, looking after our own data approaches and strategies as well.
Miniman: So you’re leveraging the public cloud. How does Commvault fit into that discussion?
...
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
