For many businesses within the health care industry, enabling their business to meet the standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act can be a challenge. These security principals will provide a guide for health care companies that must build HIPAA compliant business systems. Security Principals that Enable Transparency All HIPAA compliant business systems [...]
Concerned you missed a big story? We’ve got you covered. Every Sunday we’ll be posting the top five trending articles about The Cloud. So sit back, relax and enjoy the top headlines of the week. 1. Is Cloud Computing the new wonder drug for all SMB security and cost issues? Find out what Microsoft [...]
Every industry has its specific leaders, the trail-blazers who make it possible for smaller companies to join the race. It’s important to acknowledge the organizations who lead the way with innovative technology, after all smaller companies need someone to look up to (and models to improve upon). One of the common threads with most “top [...]
When starting out a business, or just keeping your smaller business afloat, it’s important to get the most out of what you are paying for. Usually, dedicated server hosting is not the best way to do this. With expensive costs adding up, and excess servers sitting in your cold closet, it can seem like an [...]
In December 2011 Gartner and IDC released their latest cloud computing (and Big Data) statistics and predictions for 2012 through 2016. It’s always interesting to see what the major research companies are saying about our field, or even an area that interests you. Take a peak at three of their predictions below and find out what they think is [...]
A few years ago there was no cloud VPS hosting. There was cloud hosting, and VPS hosting. VPS : Virtual Private Server which is a mechanism to slice a physical server into virtual chunks (think of it as slices of the physical computing resources such as RAM and CPU time) that each run and respond as [...]
We’ve gone over how storing data in the cloud can be a scary situation, especially when you don’t necessarily understand what the storage facility looks like. After years of storing your servers in a locked closet in the back of your office, it can be hard to let that go. But, we’re here to calm [...]