Source: Federal News Radio – By Steff Thomas, November 29, 2017
“The Food and Drug Administration has come a long way in terms of modernization, but officials said the agency needs to find a way to use the data it collects more efficiently.
Since 2009, the FDA has been driven to improve its systems through not only data center optimization, but also focusing heavily on virtualization and giving the agency more power and better “up-time” in its offices.
“There’s been a lot of advances in data analytics, and really in data generation. If you think about things like genomic sequencing or [the] ability to basically take DNA and turn it into ones and zeroes and then use that for confrontational analysis, that ends up creating a large data set, and we will use those heavily,” Brad Wintermute, the FDA’s deputy chief information officer, said on IT Modernization month. “Plus, we’re an agency that likes to hold onto everything in case we need to go back and reference that. So that certainly adds to the challenge.”
Data centers house a large sum of information. Optimizing these centers to better serve the agency is tough, and Wintermute said there are two paths that need to…” Read/Listen to the full interview here.
