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By Mike Klein on January 25, 2012
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 means that PHI is always available, accessible and never lost. When a patient arrives at [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud disaster recovery, disaster recovery, high availability, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, it disaster recovery, managed cloud, offsite backup
By Aaron Riddle on November 16, 2011
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 got access to over 77 million users’ personal information, including credit card numbers through its [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery | Tagged cold site DR, it disaster recovery, Michigan colocation, offsite backup, SAN-to-SAN replication |
By Thu Pham on November 14, 2011
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 it’ll happen to them – when in actuality, disasters happen more often than we think. [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged 2012 disaster recovery plan, 2012 IT disaster recovery, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, disaster recovery plan, IT disaster recovery plan, offsite backup, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, virtualization |
By Mike Klein on November 2, 2011
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 companies to be used in case of a disaster on a first-come, first-served basis. SunGard [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud computing disaster recovery, cloud disaster recovery, cloud RTO, cold site disaster recovery, disaster recovery cloud, disaster recovery in the cloud, disaster recovery times, recovery time objectives, RTO, SAN storage, tape backup, tapeless backup |
By Mike Klein on October 28, 2011
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 company’s entire IT infrastructure. Cloud computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud disaster recovery, cloud-based disaster recovery, it disaster recovery, network replication, server replication |
By Thu Pham on October 18, 2011
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 $4.9 billion lawsuit seeking class action status for those affected individuals hangs over the offenders’ [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged 2011 hipaa violation, cloud disaster recovery, disaster recovery in the cloud, HIPAA breach, HIPAA violation, offsite backup, tape backup, tricare |
By Thu Pham on October 17, 2011
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 building managers, supervisors and engineers, vendors, consultants and anyone concerned with uninterrupted access to critical [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Online Tech News | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud computing for disaster recovery, cloud disaster recovery, disaster recovery, disaster recovery in the cloud, it disaster recovery |
By Thu Pham on September 27, 2011
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 that tracks any potential search engine indexing issues with your site. Similar to Diagnostics in [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged amazon, amazon cloud computing, cheap hosting, Cloud Computing, data backup, it disaster recovery, seomoz, server hosting |
By Thu Pham on September 20, 2011
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 and increase data recovery accuracy. Designing and testing a formal disaster recovery plan can help [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, disaster recovery plan, disaster recovery webinar, it disaster recovery, offsite backup, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, virtualization |
By Thu Pham on August 31, 2011
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)’s financial stimulus plan for the meaningful use of EMR systems and IT services has motivated the healthcare industry to quickly adopt electronic data storage options. The large amounts of data created, transmitted and processed by the nature of the healthcare industry require a powerful and [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, cloud security, compliance in the cloud, disaster recovery, health IT, healthcare IT, hipaa, HITECH |
