Enabling the Enterprise through a Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Paul Stein, VP IT and CSODecember 3rd, 2013

America's Home Healthcare and Hospice Leader

Any statements, remarks or data provided in this presentation are my own and do not necessarily represent the official position of Gentiva Health Services Inc.

Introduction:• 30 years in Information Technology• 15 years with Gentiva• 7 Years as CSO

Expertise :• Infrastructure• Helpdesk• Security/Cyber Security• HIPAA Compliance• Bio-identity

Background:• Executive Business Management Program - Rockhurst University • Computer Science - University of Missouri Kansas City• Founder and Managing Partner of SimproSystems • PMI training certification • US ARMY Infantry & Psychological Warfare Specialist

Paul Stein, VP IT and CSO

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Gentiva Health Services, Inc.

Largest home healthcare and hospice provider in the United States

Provide Services to 80,000+ patients a day500 locations nationwide

Operations HQ: Overland Park, KSCorporate HQ: Atlanta, GA

About Gentiva

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Gentiva Health Services

Core CompetenciesIT Footprint

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Hospice Care

Home Health

Community Care

IT Operations

Corporate HQ

Estimated EOY 2014• 500+ Locations• 20,000+ End Users• 18,000+ POC Tablets

• Growth through Acquisition

IT Challenges

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• Tablet Enabled EMR (Amazon cloud Based)

• Continued HIPAA compliance (Omnibus)

• Increase Availability - Primary Data Center(s)- Failover Data Center(s)

IT Challenges

• Lower IT Operating Cost

Gentiva Health Services

Lean IT

- Exceptional Performance Levels

Achieving a Desired Steady-state

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- Secure and Compliant

- Optimized Capex-to-Opex PrivateHybrid

Leveraging HIPAA compliant Private Clouds to deliver High Availability at a lower cost

VM VM VM

Virtual DC

Flex Resources

Flexible Consumption and Compute

Performance Metrics

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Decreased data loss – RPO of 24 Hours w/tape to a few seconds with replication

Faster Recovery – RTO from 72 hours to 4 to 6 hours worst case

Lower Cost Operating Model – Best combination of shared and owned equipment for lowest cost.

58%

Lower Operating

Costs

81%

Lower Hardware

Costs

Faster R

TO

90%

Gentiva Health Services

Lean ITConclusion

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