Category: Cloud Computing

HITRUST vs HIPAA: What You Need to Know

Security rules surrounding the healthcare industry and its technology can seem overwhelmingly complicated and strict, but the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) is becoming a viable and simplified option for both vendors and covered entities. Even with HITRUST, healthcare providers still have some questions. What exactly is HITRUST, how does it differ from HIPAA, and how […]

Microsoft Hikes the Price for Taking Its On-Premises Licenses to AWS and Google

Microsoft recently announced new licensing changes that target its competing public cloud vendors that run Microsoft software. Starting October 1st, 2019, Microsoft software will become significantly more expensive to run on non-Azure cloud like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Alibaba. Microsoft, the world’s second largest public cloud provider, positioned this price increase as simply […]

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3 Steps to Solving Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

More and more businesses that would never go a second without disaster recovery for legacy systems are now finding themselves unprotected in the cloud. Here’s how to change that. Making the switch from traditional systems to the cloud is a major step, and many that are making the move believe that DR should be built […]

Five Vital Elements for Disaster Plan Success

A Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan is an essential part of your company’s Business Continuity Plan (BCP), the living document that details how your organization guards against future disasters, ranging from viruses to terrorist attacks to hurricanes and natural disasters. While people often use the terms business continuity and disaster recovery interchangeably, the two mean very different […]

What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?

What is Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS)? DRaaS is a cloud computing and backup service model that uses cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster. It gives an organization a total system backup that allows for business continuity in the event of system failure. A DRaaS provider can ensure uninterrupted performance of IT […]

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IBM Takes Hold of Hybrid Computing

In the past, there were not many cloud options for IBM i customers. That is all changing as IBM i computing is now generally available to deliver hybrid cloud options. IBM, a vocal supporter of hybrid cloud solutions, just took another step by enabling some of the last of its platforms, IBM i and AIX, […]

Seven Ways Digital Leaders Can Tackle Cloud Modernization

A recent study completed by IDC states that 76 percent of companies that are disruptors in their industries plan to replace legacy applications within the next five years, with almost half replacing legacy systems in the next 24 months. Many of them are planning on moving to the cloud. While there are instances where legacy […]

What is Cloud Repatriation and When Does It Make Sense?

Companies’ enthusiasm for public cloud solutions is waning, as more and more are bringing workloads and storage resources back in-house. In fact, a report on cloud repatriation by 451 Research stated that 20 percent of companies surveyed said that cost drove them to move one or more of their workloads from public clouds to private […]