Disaster Recovery Planning
I had the pleasure recently to present to a group of IT and business leaders on the topic of disaster recovery. Based on some of the questions and feedback from the group, I thought I would add some comments on this topic on the blog.
First, a fair number of attendees commented that they were having [...]
Cloud Computing and Other Buzz Words
The technology that drives health care today is changing in response to increase concerns about security and reliability, and external regulations like the security regulations in HIPAA. In addition, the HiTech portion of the stimulus law this year has provided incentives for health care providers to adopt technology that allows for health data exchange and [...]
Health IT & Open Source
The truth is that I may just be getting annoyed about this debate. A recent blog posting on Wired (click here for the article) frames the debate over health technology in terms of open source versus legacy or proprietary code, the latter being the enemy to innovation, improved health outcomes, and usability.
First off, an open source [...]
How Virtualization Can Help Your DR Plan
Virtualizing your servers can help you to improve your readiness to respond to disasters, such as fires, floods, virus attacks, power outages, and the like. Popular solutions, such as VMWare’s ESX virtualization products, in combination with data replication to a remote facility, or backups using a third party application like vRanger can help speed up [...]