While new advances in data analysis and management are making many fields of industry capable of streamlining things for faster operations all around, some of the most essential fields, such as the ones that handle medical information, can find it slow going to adapt and update their infrastructure.

Mohan Vedicherla, ‎Vertica database administrator at Eliza Corp., joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the HPE Big Data conference to discuss his company’s move to HP Vertica, making the move to clouds and the role of Big Data in the medical world.

Vertica in operations

Vedicherla was enthusiastic to be at the HPE Big Data Conference, saying, “It’s great to be here, because the technology has been changing rapidly, and even the Vertica guys are adding stuff pretty rapidly, so it’s good to be here to learn all the new stuff that they’re presenting.”

Vertica (a Big Data SQL analytics platform) was the main focus for Eliza this year, not simply in enhancing its understanding of how to utilize it on its own, but also how to interface it with other tools. “The primary thing we want to know here is how Vertica is doing things on AWS, because it’s a pretty new market for Vertica,” Vedicherla explained.

He also summarized Eliza Corp.’s operational strategy: “Eliza is a health engagement/management company. [Most of our customers] are healthcare and pharmacy customers. Our primary goal is basically to reach the member in the right time, in the right channel. … We basically engage you [healthcare users], capture your data, and we’ll study you down the road in order to reach you in the right time or right manner.”

Healthy data

“Basically, before even AWS … data was growing rapidly, and we wanted to take advantage of AWS, because most of the things the data is providing as a resource wouldn’t need any maintenance,” Vedicherla described. “We started moving the whole thing, the whole architecture, to cloud. Before that, we had a single-server transactional system, and also EDW [enterprise data warehouse].”

He continued: “We had to buy Vertica for some other reasons, meaning we wanted to do more statistical analysis on the data, and have a data science team, and SaaS integration and [other] things with Vertica.” Vedicherla then described how live aggregate production is used as a part of Eliza’s data handling with this architecture.

Currently, Eliza is moving to get all the data from its medical customers, with the plan that “we’ll do all the digging for you,” in regards to data analysis, with studies of each individual person in that data to understand what medical needs they might have.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE Big Data Conference.

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