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Infostretch Achieves AWS Life Sciences recognition

Infostretch — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:36:49 +0000

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Sept 23, 2021 – Infostretch, a leader in digital engineering services and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner, today announced it has achieved AWS Life Sciences Competency status. This designation recognizes Infostretch’s expertise in powering life sciences innovation on AWS by helping life sciences delivery teams accelerate their digital initiatives to achieve improved patient outcomes.

Silicon Valley-based Infostretch has over 223 certified specialists and over 20 AWS accelerators and enablers to allow customers to get the best performance from their AWS environment. By choosing to work with an AWS Life Sciences Competency partner like Infostretch, life sciences and medical device companies can get their digital innovations to market faster, with higher service levels and with less risk, while driving customer revenue and improving patient experience.

Achieving AWS Life Sciences competency status signals Infostretch’s technical expertise and customer success in building life sciences solution on AWS. It complements the company’s recent AWS Service Delivery validation and status as a AWS Well-Architected Partner and underlines its deep technical and consulting proficiency in software development, test and deployment for new medical devices and technologies.

Infostretch recently worked with Navigating Cancer, the developer of the most broadly deployed oncology patient management platforms in the US, to accelerate the development of new products and technology and strengthen its existing offerings. Leveraging the AWS cloud environment and working with Infostretch’s AWS and HIPAA experts, Navigating Cancer built a scalable, cloud-native solution for clinicians and patients across its digital health platform.
“Creating a truly patient-centered platform for oncology has always been the mission for Navigating Cancer. Working with Infostretch on AWS has helped us support over one million patients and thousands of cancer care providers.” said Ryan Newsome, CTO at Navigating Cancer. “As a result, Navigating Cancer has been able to reduce its costs and enable its clinic customers to provide more effective remote care while significantly reducing avoidable and unnecessary ER visits.”

“Life sciences and medical device companies are seeing a huge opportunity to improve health outcomes as people shift towards a model of care where they take increased personal charge of their health, often outside formal hospital or other medical settings,” commented Rutesh Shah, CEO and Founder. “Working on AWS, we can provide customers with the speed, agility and performance to deliver solutions to market faster and to outpace the competition.”

Infostretch AWS cloud solutions are driven by industry-best standards and AWS-guided design patterns. Infostretch adheres to a disciplined continuous review process with experienced and talented AWS certified architects.

For more details about our Life Sciences Program, visit https://www.infostretch.com/partners/aws-partnership/life-sciences/.

About Infostretch
Infostretch is a pure-play digital engineering services firm focused on helping companies accelerate their digital initiatives from strategy and planning through execution. We leverage deep technical expertise, Agile methodologies and data-driven intelligence to modernize systems of engagement and simplify human/tech interaction. We deliver custom solutions that meet customers’ technology needs wherever they are in their digital lifecycle. Backed by the Private Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Group, Infostretch works with both large enterprises and emerging innovators — putting digital to work to enable new products and business models, engage with customers in new ways, and create sustainable competitive differentiation. For more information, visit https://www.infostretch.com/.

About Navigating Cancer
Navigating Cancer is a digital health company focused on improving the lives of cancer patients and those who care for them. Our comprehensive Navigating Care® platform helps providers boost their financial performance, enables more effective remote care management, and delivers a better patient experience while providing valuable insights for oncology innovation. With over 2,500 providers using the Navigating Care platform to care for over 1 million patients, it is the most broadly deployed oncology patient management solution in the US. For more information, please visit http://www.navigatingcancer.com or follow Navigating Cancer on Twitter @navcancer.

Considering Cloud Migration? Here’s What You Need to Know…

Infostretch — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:02:08 +0000

Digital transformation in almost all industries is powered by cloud migration. It’s no wonder that the cloud migration services market was valued at USD 119.13 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach USD 448.34 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 28.89% over the forecast period 2020 – 2025. Over the past decade the cloud computing megatrend has seen not only large enterprises make the switch. Small and medium enterprises are increasingly investing in cloud to take advantage of its benefits. By 2022, Gartner predicts that worldwide public cloud service revenue will exceed USD 365 billion.

In this post we’re going to examine why, and how, enterprises of all sizes are taking advantage of cloud.

What’s driving cloud adoption?

The scalability, speedy implementation, effectiveness, mobility, and disaster recovery that cloud provides are just some of the factors driving the growth of cloud services. In addition to being flexible, cost-effective, modern, reliable, and secure, cloud computing provides many other benefits.

Lower costs—Customers are not required to purchase hardware or software, and they only need to pay for the services they are using.

No maintenance—The service provider is responsible for maintenance.

Near-unlimited scalability—On-demand resources are available to meet business demands.

High reliability—Cloud provides a vast network of servers, which ensures against failure proof computing and disaster recovery.

Agility and scalability – The resource is pay-as-you-go. If an application is designed properly, it should be easy to scale quickly.

Business innovation – Cloud enables lower barriers to entry for innovation and prototyping. It is expensive and time-consuming to build testing and development infrastructure in-house. The cloud provider may offer more advanced functional capabilities in the areas of advanced data analysis and processing.

Broader geographic distribution – The global distribution of cloud infrastructure and platform services (IaaS and PaaS) enables applications to be deployed to other regions quickly and more cost-effectively.

Increased application availability – High availability (HA) is usually a prerequisite for business critical applications. Cloud computing service providers such as Azure can guarantee 99.99% uptime and can often jump to 99.999999%.

Technical Flexibility – Customers can pick from a range of services, making it far easier to accelerate their own digital goals.

Security Improvements – Built-in security services enable customers to protect data, apps and infrastructure.

What are the deployment options?

When it comes to cloud deployment, customers can choose one of the three cloud deployment models, public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud. Your best fit deployment model will depend on where your data is stored, how you/your customers interact with it, how they get to it, where the application runs, and how much of your own infrastructure you want or need to manage.

The most common deployment model out of the three is the public cloud. Public cloud deployment requires no local hardware to manage or keep up-to-date – everything runs on the cloud provider’s hardware. In some cases, customers can save additional costs by sharing computing resources with other cloud users. Businesses can use multiple public cloud providers of varying scale. Public cloud deployments are frequently used to provide web-based email, online office applications, storage, and testing and development environments. Examples of public cloud providers are Microsoft’s Azure, AWS and Google.

What can you expect from your cloud engineering partner?

If you’re in the process of evaluating cloud engineering partners, you’ll no doubt be interested in their track record.

What level of expertise does the team have?
Have they carried out a wide variety of migration tasks?
Can they share examples of customer success stories?
What level of support can you expect?

It’s difficult to generalize, because there are cloud migration services to suit all requirements – and budgets. Whatever your cloud delivery environment, an expert partner like Infostretch should be able to help you gain exceptional benefits from cloud migration. In our case, we offer a structured approach for migrating any workload to a public cloud. Our cloud migration service includes planning for each workload, assuring the proper cloud architecture to meet both current and future needs, and managing the successful execution of each migration. A dedicated global compliance team works with the project team and client stakeholders to ensure comprehensive security, compliance, risk assessment, and regional regulatory requirements. In addition, we offer complete end-to-end cloud and application migration services tailored to your business’s needs.

What success can look like…

Infostretch recently helped a healthcare company with an end-to-end walkthrough of cloud database migration to Azure. This involved migrating more than 120 users, three web applications, and one mobile app. We enabled multiregional setup with more than five read replicas to address latency and more than 80 operation reports. We delivered the entire migration scope in a brief period of two months while delivering fully secured, HIPAA-compliant in infrastructure compliance with the federal government and customer MSA.

Infostretch’s team of 300+ certified cloud, AI/ML and DevOps engineers have developed more than 120 innovative solutions that include digital mirrors, Alexa, IoT-enabled gaming solutions and AI-ML-driven enterprise platforms. Our team is also supported by more than 110 readily available cloud accelerators, more than ten bots to enable the agile delivery process, and more than 20 connectors that are developed in-house to help you in your cloud migration.

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Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2020 & Beyond

Infostretch — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:52:17 +0000

DevOps is growing up. Gone are the years where any discussion about DevOps was preceded by an explanation of what DevOps, Shift Left, and Agile actually were. As the collective understanding deepens through practice, I think we can agree that DevOps is finally established. Indeed, the global DevOps market is predicted to be worth $15 billion by 2026. What are the big trends to watch out for in 2020?

Digital Transformation is Changing DevOps Metrics
Quality at speed has been a DevOps mantra for years. When organizations wanted to demonstrate improvement as a result of DevOps, they often used speed metrics (release frequency, for instance). Forrester sees “business value” overtaking “velocity” as the primary metric of DevOps success, which tallies with Infostretch’s own experiences with our customer base. While demonstrations of speed are a good indicator of agility, for customer-obsessed enterprises in the process of digital transformation, other metrics, such as customer satisfaction, are becoming more relevant.

1. Destination: Cloud

Cloud-native, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, public cloud. Whichever route you take, your infrastructure and operations are heading to the cloud. That is because the cloud ecosystem is seen as the only way to handle modern applications and workloads at scale, especially as many of those are now cloud-native themselves. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are all growing at a phenomenal rate. By 2022, Gartner says up to 60 percent of organizations will use an external service provider’s cloud-managed service offering. Gartner also identifies cloud computing as one of the top three investment areas for CIOs in 2020. The rush to cloud is a no brainer when you consider how it facilitates business agility in the digital age through continuous delivery. In parallel, containers and microservices have rapidly become fundamental to building and deploying DevOps. From a hiring perspective, these skills are hotly sought after, and perhaps it is also no wonder that attendance at events like KubeCon is gathering pace. As a result of microservices adoption, enterprises should expect to engage with service meshes in 2020 if they have not already done so. These help address management challenges associated with distributed environments.

2. Deploy DevOps at Scale

DevOps momentum is building. The DevOps market is growing at nearly 20 percent CAGR. Not only are organizations trying new DevOps initiatives, but they are also under pressure to scale existing projects fast. To date, cloud-based initiatives have enjoyed relatively high investment, but cost scrutiny will kick in as those initiatives start to scale.

Low- and no-code development platforms will flourish as they enable both citizen developers and pros to focus on the issues they really want to solve. We are on the cusp of a new era of innovation in enterprises. This digital creativity will not be confined to the software team or other technical specialists, which may represent a challenging shift in perspective for many organizations. They’ll also need to address the issue of managing a proliferation of new digital initiatives without adding unnecessarily to the overall complexity of the IT environment.

According to Gartner, there is little doubt that “digital toolboxes” are coming, “By 2023, 90% of enterprises will fail to scale DevOps initiatives if they do not create a shared self-service platform.”

3. Get Serious about Automation

“I&O leaders must shift to a strategic approach to automation,” predict Gartner. “By 2025, more than 90% of enterprises will have an automation architect, up from less than 20% today.” Our view? Infostretch, 100% backs this approach. Pick almost any of the digital challenges faced by enterprises. Whatever the issue, increased automation is almost certainly part of the answer. AI tools are helping to bring us a step closer to the end-goal of zero-touch automation. Infoneers have a lot to say on the subject of automation, as regular readers of the blog will be aware, or you can check out some of Infostretch’s other resources, like this DTV interview, ‘Putting the Fun in Software Automation’ or the webcast ‘The Future of Test Automation is AI.’ In 2020, advances in intelligent automation mean that zero-touch automation is becoming a realistic, if ambitious, goal for many.

4. Build System Resilience

Traditional testing focused on ensuring all the constituent parts of a wider whole working as they should. But in modern digital environments, the assumption now is that at any one time, something will misfire. Chaos engineering, sometimes known as failure-as-a-service, is part of the broader discipline of resilience engineering, and it is going to be increasingly crucial at helping DevOps professionals understand the implications of working within highly complex systems. What happens when parts of the system do not work as intended? How many small, seemingly insignificant individual failures does it take to bring about an outage or other worst-case scenarios? Chaos engineering is about conducting controlled experiments with a system in production to increase its resilience in the face of unexpected events. Resilience engineering and risk management is an established discipline in manufacturing and other industrial contexts. Netflix has been a prominent pioneer with its Chaos Monkey program. It’s time the rest of the DevOps community caught up.

5. Long Live DevSecOps

DevSecOps got real in 2019 due to the ripple effect of legislation like GDPR, together with the ongoing steady stream of data security breaches that hit the news. It moved from a buzzword that is spoken of to a practice that is done. This transformation needs to continue into 2020 as security policies will increasingly be mandated at the level of the code. DevSecOps badly needs to be a standard practice rather than an exciting variant of DevOps. I hope that when we talk about DevOps in the future, it will automatically signify security-as-code. Or perhaps we need to ditch the term DevOps altogether in favor of DevSecOps.

As a digital engineering services firm, Infostretch is laser-focused on helping companies accelerate their digital initiatives from strategy and planning through to execution.

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