Healthcare

From Failing Hardware to Secure Data Connectivity in the Cloud

BC Cancer Research Center (BCCRC) is a provincial organization responsible for cancer care in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and provides comprehensive cancer control for the people of British Columbia, including cancer care, research, education, and prevention programs. BC Cancer operates six regional centers across the province, which offer cancer treatment, support, and specialized care.

The Challenge

The risk of losing valuable data due to failing hardware

BCCRC's on-premises storage hardware was aging and beginning to fail, putting their critical data at risk. Additionally, managing and maintaining the legacy system was becoming increasingly expensive and time-consuming, putting a strain on the organization's resources.

In this challenge, BCCRC needed a quick solution that was cost-effective and enabled them to:

Solve the issue with aging and malfunctioning storage hardware in the datacenter.

Keep data secure and compliant, while proactively accessing the research data on daily basis

Use existing tools to access the data while also reduce administrative overhead on operational team

Implement a highly scalable solution that enabled their team to scale and do research more efficiently

The Solution

Securing Critical Data and Reducing Costs

To address the challenges, we proposed a solution that involved migrating almost 2PB of data to secure cloud storage. This migration would not only safeguard the data, but also reduce the burden of managing and maintaining the legacy hardware. The migration process was complex and involved careful planning and execution to ensure minimal disruption to BC Cancer's operations

Our Approach

Planned a migration strategy to identify the data, establish the goal of migration, and determined the best migration strategy.

Prepared the data to eliminate any redundancy, outdated information and clean up the data to ensure accuracy of the data.

Ordered data boxes from Azure to on-site, and strategically transferred the data to the hardware and shipped them back to Microsoft

Prepared the cloud infrastructure to store the data, while also keeping the appropriate SKUs in mind for ongoing usage.

Validated the data transfer in the cloud and confirmed the usability of the data once migrated.

Provided documentation and training to set the team up for long-term success.

Technologies Used

The following tech stack was leverage the achieve the results in the project.

Azure Data Box

Azure Storage Account

The Results

Ability to Scale the Research Data

We worked closely with BCCRC to ensure that the migration was successful and that the organization's critical data was secure and easily accessible in the cloud. As a result of the successful migration, the data is now secure and easily accessible in the cloud. The organization has also saved a significant amount of resources by eliminating the need to manage the legacy hardware.

Smart Scalability

Scalable and adaptable solution that grow and expand based on the business demand using flexible storage tier.

Operational Solution

Access to the organization's data from anywhere, anytime from any device with the same user experience.

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Security and Compliance

Secure and encrypted access to data in the cloud while also keeping the systems compliant with the heathcare policies.

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