The UK Government’s ‘Cloud First’ policy encourages all public sector organisations to consider cloud services before any alternative IT solutions. This has led to many subsections of the NHS adopting the cloud and a more recent interest in hybrid cloud solutions. But with 27% of Healthcare organisations still running on traditional, non-cloud hardware (higher than any other industry), it is clear they still have some way to go when it comes to digital transformation.
Hybrid cloud is well placed to manage fluctuating demand in healthcare, often combining cloud computing with on-premise IT, meaning that it is possible to keep some resources ‘in-house’ and to use cloud solutions for other applications.
SCC can work with Healthcare organisations to streamline the management of hybrid workloads and using our Cloud Readiness Assessment services can help to match your workloads to the most appropriate cloud services provider. This approach offers flexibility to meet specific needs, no matter how complex. Healthcare organisations may have some services which cannot be moved to public cloud, due to regulatory and legal restrictions, so may opt for a hybrid cloud solution, which allows some workloads to be managed either on-premise or stored in a private cloud environment.
SCC can work with organisations to understand their current workload infrastructure to develop a cloud strategy, advise on how to maximise workload productivity and implement any chosen cloud storage solutions. This understanding will give healthcare organisations the ability to derive meaningful intelligence about their workloads to support key decision making (at both the clinical front-line and at board) which is now critical to meaningful and sustainable progression.
Increase future agility and scalability of the IT environment.
Enable and accelerate effective workload provisioning.
Increased flexibility and cost savings associated with consumption priced services.
Keep up with technological change and innovation whilst modernising at the organisations own speed.
Align cloud and application decision to business strategy and security requirements.
Build competitive advantage through the ability to take advantage of technological innovations and process automation.