Colocation or colocation hosting is where you rent space for your IT hardware at a 3rd party provider’s data center facility. Using colocation services can deliver advantages for your business that you may not realize using or building out your own data center facility. In this article, I take a deep dive into what colocation…
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 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…
What is managed storage or a managed data storage solution? Put simply, it is a secure service that is designed to offload an organization’s data storage requirements to a third-party managed service provider. The storage can be located onsite or offsite, depending on the company’s needs, and the service provider they select. Managed storage services…
What are managed security services? Well, the short answer would be that they are enterprise-grade data center security solutions for mission-critical applications hosting sensitive data. If that is all you needed, then I’m happy to have helped. If you are not here for the short answer, let’s dig in! More organizations are turning to managed…
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…
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)? DRaaS is a cloud computing and backup service model that uses cloud resources to protect applications and data from the disruption caused by a disaster. It gives an organization a total system backup that allows for business continuity in the event of system failure. A DRaaS provider…
“Colocation is not secure enough for financial banking IT.” “Colocation will not meet the PCI DSS compliance requirements that we have in banking.” “Colocation would not provide the network performance that we require.” Does this sound familiar? Colocation facilities play an essential role in the storage and security of a banking organization’s data and digital…