practical cloud adoption for the health & life sciences industry

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Practical Cloud Adoption for the Health & Life Sciences Industry

Chris Gough

Lead Solutions Architect, Intel Health & Life Sciences


Agenda

• Healthcare Cloud Computing

• Balanced Cloud Solutions

• Case Studies

• Improving UX With Hardware-Assisted Security

• Additional Resources

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The Building Surge of Healthcare Data

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• Digitization of healthcare data

• Higher resolution images, sound, video

• New data types; e.g. genomics

• Longer retention needs

• Health information exchange, and

proliferation of duplicates

• Sensitive data must be protected everywhere

• Access required anywhere, anytime on any device

Cloud can help address these challenges

Security, compliance and user experience are critical considerations


Healthcare Cloud Computing

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Business Drivers Concerns

How to maximize benefits and minimize concerns? One size does not fit all

Cost Reduction: Economies of scale,

multi-tenancy

Agility: Elasticity, provisioning

Availability: Highly redundant, geo-

dispersed

Leverage External Expertise

Security & Privacy: Data breach,

regulations

Data Sovereignty: Where is my data?

Auditability & Compliance: Complicated by distributed cloud

Vendor Lock-In


Where in the Spectrum Are Your Cloud Workloads?

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Intel Open Cloud Vision

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IT Requirements & Open Standards

Define and Prioritize IT Requirements &

Accelerate Open Industry Standards

Optimized Platforms

Enable proven solutions that ease cloud adoption & help guide cloud service provider

selection

Intel® Cloud Builders & Cloud Finder

Deliver optimized products for more secure, efficient,

automated platforms built on a common architecture

Interoperable, Built on Open, Multi-Vendor Solutions & Industry Standards


Service Orchestration for your Cloud Environment

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* * *

Compute (Nova) Network (Quantum)

Storage(Cinder | Swift)

Dashboard (Horizon)

Watcher(Nagios*)

Decider(internal)

Collector(HDFS)

Actor(Puppet*)

OpenStack APIs

vSphere

vSAN

Hard

disks

SSD

NSXESXi

vCenter Server

vCloud Director

Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V

System Center 2012

Deep Engagement and Support for all major Cloud Operating Environment and

platform solutions


Intel Healthcare Cloud Computing

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1. Intel® Cloud Builders2. Hardware-assisted SecurityFor more… www.intel.com/healthcare/cloud and www.intelcloudfinder.com

Intel Works with Customers, Partners, Alliances, and Standards Bodies to

Produce Scalable, Secure Cloud Solutions Based on Today’s

Health IT Requirements¹

Protect sensitive health information in transit, at rest, and in use with hardware-assisted security²

Improve mission-critical information availability with reliability and serviceability features

Control costs with balanced, “scale-out” solutions based on Intel® compute, networking, and storage capabilities

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-computing/cloud-builders-provide-proven-advice.html

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/data-security/security-overview-general-technology.html?wapkw=hardware-assisted+security

http://www.intel.com/healthcare/cloud

http://www.intelcloudfinder.com/


Balanced Cloud Solutions

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Cloud Technologies – The Power of the Platform

Hadoop processing time

~10 minutes with Complete Intel-based solution

Intel® Xeon ® 5600 HDD 1GbE

UPGRADE TO INTEL®

XEON® PROCESSOR

E5-2600 V2

~50reduction

%

TeraSort for 1TB sort

~4 hour process time

UPGRADE

TO SSD

~80reduction

UPGRADE

TO 10GBE

~50reduction

INTEL

DISTRIBUTION

~40reduction

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/10gbe-10gbase-t-hadoop-clusters-paper.pdfSoftware and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to

any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.

Source: Intel internal measurement using a standard Hadoop benchmark, TeraSort, on a cluster of 10 top bin Xeon 5600 based servers sort 1TB of data Westmere 3HDD + 1GbE = 250 minutes; Romley 3HDD +1GbE = 125 Minutes; Romley 4SSD + 1GbE = 23 minutes; Romley 4SSD + 10GbE = 12 minutes; Romley 4SSD + 10GbE + Intel Hadoop Distribution = 7 minutesOther names and brands may be claimed as the property of others

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http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/10gbe-10gbase-t-hadoop-clusters-paper.pdf


Ultra High-Speed Networking Optimizations

Aspera Labs• Challenge: Improving big data transfer to and from the backend

data center

• Solution: Optimize ultra high-speed (10 Gbps and beyond) data transfer solutions built on Aspera’s FASP ™ transport technology

and Intel’s innovative hardware platform

• Benefits with Intel Xeon E5-2600 (DDIO, SR-IOV)

− 300% improvement in Aspera transfer throughput

− Same transfer speed performance in both physical and virtualized

computing environments

− Both LAN and WAN transfer speeds had similar results

• Infrastructure and Data Characteristics:

− Xeon E5 2687, 32GB DDR3 with Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Data Direct IO (DDIO), Intel 910 SSD,

Intel 82599EB 10 GbE

− Aspera Enterprise server 3.1.1.66573, Aspera Performance Automation Suite

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High Throughput Science: Embracing Cloud-based Analytics

• Challenge: Team of cancer researchers had to screen a

drug concept with a list of tens of millions of molecules

working with a tight deadline, a fixed budget, and strict

security and compliance requirements. Schrödinger’s

existing in-house servers would be tied up for weeks

• Solution: Schrödinger used software from AWS partner,

Cycle Computing, to provision a fully secured cluster of

50,000 cores, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor

E5 family.

− This configuration enabled the team to run 16

million molecular simulations an hour.

− Developed 1000 molecule list in < 8hrs.

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GEHC Medical Quality Improvement Consortium

(MQIC)

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Challenge – How to gain added value from wealth

of data in EMRs/EHRs and other digital health

information tools

Solution – Providers contribute de-identified data

from their Centricity EMRs and used the resulting

data warehouse and analytics capabilities to enhance their quality and reporting activities.

1.6 billion documents representing 30 million de-

identified patient records and 209 million office

visits.

Benefits - Physician practices and ambulatory care

clinics deliver their best care more efficiently,

along with population-based research and public health activities.


Enhancing Datacenter Workload Security

ENFORCEIntel® TXT

Establishes “trusted” status foundation for security policy-

based workload control

ENCRYPTIntel® AES-NI

ISOLATEIntel® VT and

Intel® TXTDelivers built-in encryption acceleration for better data

protection

Protects VM isolation and provides a more secure

platform launch

Security Standards

ANALYZEIntel® Distribution Apache Hadoop*

Hardware-enhanced analytics platform to achieve insights

faster

Intel & partners are collaborating to drive unification and

consensus across industry security standards to enable

consistent controls and protections

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Circumventing Security of Compromised Solutions

in the Way of Healthcare

• Slow encryption• Vulnerable security• Unusable 2-factor authentication• Expensive security• Compromised healthcare solutions• Many [risky] alternatives!

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Enabling Healthcare with More Usable and Secure

Safeguard Solutions

•Performant, e.g., encryption

•Robust (hardened), e.g., advanced

behavior / heuristics anti-malware

•Usable, e.g., manageable systems “just

work,” 2-factor authentication

•Cost effective

•Migrate core security logic to hardware

• Integrate separate security hardware

•Security software on general hardware

•Separate security hardware

General Purpose

Hardware

Security Software

General Purpose

Hardware

CoreSecurity

Logic

Core Security

Logic

Security Software

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Logic

Trend

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Performance,

Robustness,

Usability, Cost

Time

Separate Security

Hardware

Past

Trend

Future

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Key Challenges

• Launch New Cloud Services to meet growing demand from healthcare organizations for flexible, cost-

effective, outsourced IT

• Provide a Trusted Environment that helps providers protect sensitive information and comply with

regulations

Solution

• Infrastructure based on Intel® Xeon E5 servers

• Integrated Intel® AES-NI technology improved encryption performance by 49.25% (1.97x) and

improved decryption performance by 62.16% (2.64x)

• AES-NI hardened against side channel attacks and associated exploits

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AES -NI is a set of instructions that consolidates mathematical operations used in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Enabling AES-NI requires a computer system with an AES-NI-enabled processor as well as non-Intel software to execute the instructions in the correct sequence. For availability of AES-NI enabled processors or systems, check with your reseller or system manufacturer.

Global Net Access Health (GNAX Health) is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure provider

Learn more at www.gnaxhealth.com

http://www.gnaxhealth.com/


Summary

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• Healthcare is undergoing a rapid transformation

• Agile organizations will be best positioned to adapt

quickly to this changing environment

• Cloud computing can enable agile, cost effective, and highly

available solutions… but ensuring security and

compliance concerns are addressed is paramount

• Intel is working with fellow travelers to produce secure,

high performance, cloud solutions that help meet

compliance and integration needs of the healthcare

industry


Additional Resources

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• [email protected]

• Secure Cloud for Healthcare Data

• Atlantic Health System Harnesses Data Growth

• CareAlign Exchange Secures Healthcare Data (ICA - AES-NI)

• Intel TXT Enables a Trusted, High Performance Cloud (DuPont)

• Building a Cloud For Healthcare (GNAX – AES-NI)

• High Performance Encryption for EHR Databases

• Big Data Technologies for Ultra-High-Speed Data Transfer & Processing (Aspera/Intel)

• Cycle Computing – Utility HPC – Cloud Slam 2013

• GE Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (Private Cloud)

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/healthcare-it/secure-cloud-for-healthcare-data.html

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https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/big-data/healthcare-big-data-ica-carealign-case-study.html

https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/healthcare-it/dupont-private-cloud-case-study.html

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/case-study/cloud-computing-xeon-global-net-access-study.pdf

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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/big-data/big-data-xeon-processor-e5-ultra-high-speed-aspera-whitepaper.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaQoR7AAcb4&feature=share&list=PL6D8B14624622DEBE

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-computing/xeon-ge-healthcare-private-cloud-paper.html


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