Compliance has become a hot topic recently, mainly because new HIPAA regulations have changed the way healthcare and cloud service providers interact. These changes have caused not only the healthcare community but other industries to call into question how they interact with the cloud and what measures are being taken to protect data and meet…
DetailsAt the beginning of April, I wrote a blog post about my parents selling my childhood home and needing to find a place to store my favorite possessions until I had a house of my own. At the time, my husband and I were planning to start house hunting this fall. Of course, life had…
DetailsAs I mentioned last time, there are 7 main things you should consider before choosing a cloud backup provider. I reviewed 3 of these 7 things with you in Part 1. As a quick refresher, these were: 1.Security 2.Performance and versatility 3.Pricing structure Now for the final four considerations… Considerations The final four considerations for…
DetailsThere are a lot of cloud vendors floating around the online world these days. That has never been so clear to me as it was last week, when VaultLogix exhibited at the Cloud Expo in New York City. It was amazing to see just how many cloud vendors there were, all focused on different business…
DetailsSometimes I feel like Chicken Little. Only I’m not screaming “The sky is falling down!”, I’m screaming “You’ll lose your data if you don’t back up!”. That’s the thing about being in my position, I know what can happen if you aren’t backing up your data, but there’s no way for me to communicate that…
DetailsBacking up your critical business data to the cloud is a big decision to make, and one of the main concerns companies have is the level of security they are getting with the provider they choose. And why wouldn’t it be? This is not a picture of your Aunt Millie someone could be falsely accessing. …
DetailsIf you’ve been reading our blog, you obviously know we are big fans of backing up critical data to the cloud. It is, after all, what we do. We try to give advice with some (hopefully) funny quips along the way. We’ve talked about why you need to be backing up your data, but we…
DetailsMy parents are putting my childhood home on the market next week. We’ve spent 3 months cleaning up 33 years of memories, “must keep” toys, and unfinished projects. We’ve scrubbed the kitchen, painted the walls, and power washed the back deck. We’ve taken trips down memory lane all while weeding through precious items to decide…
DetailsI start each workday morning similarly to the way most people start their weekend mornings: a cup of coffee and the news. The only difference is my news. I’m not reading the NY Times or the Boston Globe, I’m reading my Google Alerts. I have 5 alerts set up to keep me abreast of what…
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