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Five Questions to Ask Your Business Associate: Question #4 Disaster Recovery
If disaster strikes, how long will it take before PHI is available again? Part of due diligence is asking yourself and your partners detailed questions about contingency plans in the event of a disaster. HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability … Continue reading
Disaster Recovery for HIPAA Applications – It’s All About Availability of PHI
HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act focuses on three key criteria for handling Protected Health Information (PHI): availability, confidentiality and integrity. This blog post focuses on availability as it applies to HIPAA applications and HIPAA data. Availability … Continue reading
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Why It’s More Essential Than Ever To Have A Disaster Recovery Plan In Place
No company is exempt from a disaster. Google has had outages in their Docs, Gmail, and other applications that have affected millions of users who use their services on an everyday basis. In April 2011, Sony was attacked when hackers … Continue reading
What’s Your 2012 IT Disaster Recovery Plan?
Do you think you’re ready for a disaster to hit in the upcoming year? Can your business survive the impact, and are you prepared to recover all of your applications and data quickly and accurately? Most businesses just don’t think … Continue reading
Cold Site DR is Dead. Long Live Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery!
A decade ago, companies like SunGard grew very quickly by selling a solution most of us would call “cold site disaster recovery.” In essence, SunGard compiled a number of physical servers and compute capabilities, then leased these servers to many … Continue reading
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What’s Missing From Most Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery? Network Replication
I’ve written several blog posts on how cloud computing changes disaster recovery. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it makes disaster recovery more cost-effective and lowers the bar for deploying comprehensive DR plans across a … Continue reading
Military Healthcare Contractor’s HIPAA Breach Followed by $4.9 Billion Lawsuit
If you’ve been following the TRICARE HIPAA breach of PHI reported at the end of September, you’ll know that 4.9 million people were affected by the loss of data backup tapes under the Defense Department’s military healthcare program. Now a … Continue reading
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Online Tech at 7×24 Exchange’s 2011 Fall Conference
Online Tech’s CEO Yan Ness has been selected to speak at 7×24 Exchange’s Fall Conference “Leveraging Innovation” in Phoenix, Arizona. According to 7x24exchange.org, the conference is designed for IT, data center, and disaster recovery professionals, network/telecommunication managers, computer technologists, facility or … Continue reading
Cheap Hosting Case Study: You Get What You Pay For (And Sometimes Not At All)
Last Saturday, top SEO company SEOmoz reported unscheduled downtime of their paid web crawler service while hosting a number of their applications with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The web crawler service, also known as Crawl Diagnostics, is a time-sensitive monitoring service … Continue reading
Upcoming Cloud Computing and Disaster Recovery Events
Disaster recovery and backup are critical for businesses in the event of a disaster – risking data loss can severely impact your bottom line in addition to the survival of your company. But preparation can reduce costs, decrease recovery times … Continue reading
