Paul Stein, the VP of IT and CSO of Gentiva Health Services, presented on enabling the enterprise through a hybrid cloud strategy. Gentiva is America's largest home healthcare and hospice provider, serving over 80,000 patients daily across 500 locations. Stein discussed Gentiva's IT challenges of growth, a tablet-based EMR system, and continued compliance needs. He proposed a hybrid cloud strategy using HIPAA-compliant private clouds to deliver high availability at a lower cost through optimized infrastructure and flexible consumption of compute resources. Performance metrics showed decreased data loss, faster recovery times, and a lower cost operating model.