Tim Calahan TITLE : CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
MICHIGAN MEDICINE
technologies that are coming out in terms of their data fabric and also their Gen AI capabilities , that will be very meaningful to us as we begin to move things out in the cloud and be able to take advantage of those tools and products and solutions .”
Another of its partners , NetApp , has helped Michigan Medicine by providing a single management plane to leverage on-premise and cloud assets .
“ When we look at things like hosting Epic , if I want to host it in the cloud , I can do that on NetApp storage and I can have a common management plane between those two environments that makes it easier to manage . It means I can manage it the same way , whether it ’ s on-prem or in the cloud .
Tim Calahan TITLE : CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Dr . Tim Calahan is renowned for his expertise in hosting Epic on the cloud . With a solid engineering background , two Master ’ s degrees , and a Doctorate , he excels at fostering innovation and leading transformative change . Dr . Calahan is known for creating structure from chaos , driving innovation , charting new strategies , effectively communicating visionary ideas and directing technical teams to success . Recognized for rescuing technology projects and setting strategic roadmaps for digital transformation , his extensive expertise lies in cloud transformation , including hosting Epic on the cloud . Dr . Calahan brings over 30 years of professional experience with over 25 years in Healthcare and 15 years in Management Consulting .
“ When I came into the role , the organisation had just finished doing a cloud assessment . Unfortunately , the assessment couldn ’ t map data back to individual workloads . So NetApp was able to come in and provide a cloud insights assessment to paint a very clear picture of what those environments look like .
“ I ’ ve been in the industry a long time and you hear about people that have made a move to the cloud , but they didn ’ t really have a plan in terms of how they were going to execute on that . And I ’ ve seen or I ’ ve heard of organisations that have signed these massive cloud contracts , but without the underlying plan to execute on that cloud contract .”
With planning IT needs being so important , NetApp was helpful in mapping out Michigan Medicine ’ s resources , enabling us to then create a plan as to how it would move to the cloud .
“ We ’ re a public institution , so we had to issue a series of RFPs ,” Calahan says . “ When we issued those RFPs , we had to be very specific in terms of how much compute and storage we were going to need . We ’ ve heard that that ’ s very rare in the industry , but through our partners like Microsoft and NetApp , we could be very specific in terms of what we needed and what our anticipated journey might look like .”
Cloud migration to enable Michigan Medicine to harness exciting technologies As Calahan describes , in the near future the focus at Michigan Medicine will be on transitioning a significant portion of the organisation ’ s operational processes to cloud-based systems through a lift and shift methodology .