Virtustream Cloud Expert Series Virtustream Cloud Expert Series

- Rob Scott, Vice President, Professional and Managed Services, Virtustream

Episode Summary: In this podcast, Virtustream’s Rob Scott discusses the growing market for leveraging multicloud expertise in the form of resident services to manage a business’ IT modernization and digital transformation needs. Learn how organizations are able to move faster, fill critical skill gaps and refocus internal teams on higher priority business requirements. Rob dives deep into areas that are ripe to benefit from resident services, including organizational transitions and high-growth periods, IT transformational projects, and keeping pace with the ongoing requirements of efficiently managing multicloud environments.

Healthcare IT Game-Changer: Cloud Services

- Dr. Tim Calahan, Director of Healthcare Product Strategy & Management, Virtustream
- Tim Nash, Sr. Sales Director for Virtustream Healthcare, Virtustream

In this podcast, Virtustream’s Dr. Tim Calahan and Tim Nash discuss their big takeaways from one of the largest healthcare IT conferences, HIMSS 2021. Held in Las Vegas this year, the conference’s hottest topic focused on the healthcare industry’s unprecedented urgency in managing the massive wave of patient care needs and rapid work-from-home initiatives that were both driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtustream’s experts also held deep conversations with customers about their growing cybersecurity concerns in the face of increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks across the industry. Tim and Tim also share their thoughts on digital transformation, electronic health records, and the sharply rising interest in healthcare-focused cloud solutions and services.

Your Data’s Journey to the Cloud

- Erin Coleman, Sr. Director, Service Management, Virtustream
- Scott DesBles, Principal Technologist, Boomi

Episode Summary: In this podcast, Virtustream’s Erin Coleman is joined by Boomi’s Scott DesBles to discuss the end-to-end journey of a customer’s data when migrating to the cloud. Our experts provide real-world examples and cover the big trends, from the most common mistakes made by IT organizations in the migration process, to leveraging new tools and services, to understanding when support should properly begin to ensure a smooth and secure journey for a customer’s mission-critical data. The pair also explore how integration between systems in a hybrid and multicloud world has become an essential part of the data journey, including the importance of real-time response times for both providers and their customers.

In this podcast, Virtustream’s Lofan Leung, Director of Go to Market and Alliances, and Alex Noordergraaf, Director of Product Management for SAP, shed light on migrating to SAP’s S4/HANA and operating S4/HANA in the Virtustream Enterprise Cloud. Our experts discuss challenges, best practices, new solutions, and Virtustream’s proven managed services as they explore the phases of the S/4HANA journey to the cloud. Virtustream’s decade of SAP experience includes more than 2,500 SAP application migrations to the Virtustream Enterprise Cloud. That deep expertise informs this technical discussion in which our guests cover the deployment of SAP S/4HANA in a multicloud operating model in addition to covering practical steps to align technologies, reduce friction in support processes, and build a governance framework to deliver on the broad enterprise promises of SAP S/4HANA in the cloud.

In the second of two episodes with James Kluttz, VP & CTO at Novant Health, and Dr. Tim Calahan, Field CTO of Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, hear these two experts’ discuss key trends and developments in the healthcare cloud space. Topics include the value of mission-critical cloud computing solutions, how digital transformation is quickly evolving the healthcare IT industry, and what role cloud is playing to make electronic health records secure and easy to access for both healthcare providers and payers. The pair also talk about the organizational and business impact of managed services, including improvements in speed, agility and system performance, in addition to applying their decades of experience to give their unique perspectives on the unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare providers around the globe.