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On HIPAA Violation Penalties Rise in Response to Data Breaches

Online Tech as an organization is HIPAA compliant - this includes our staff, our facilities, our policies and procedures, not just our services/products. Our report is available under NDA. 

February 20, 2013    View Comment    

On Cloud Computing Prompts 2012 Data Center Expansion Plans

Agreed, managed cloud hosting offers most companies more flexibility - faster deployment of additional servers means business growth won't be impeded by the inability to support the demand from a computing perspective. 

November 21, 2011    View Comment    

On What’s Missing From Most Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery? Network Replication

It does seem like an issue. The only other solution I have is to disable the auto feed, have each user create their own account w/their own names, and then manually submit each post. Seems like the webmaster should add a functionality to change author names, similar to WordPress.

November 1, 2011    View Comment    

On What’s Missing From Most Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery? Network Replication

Just wanted to clarify authorship; this is written by Mike Klein, COO of Online Tech.

The Online Tech blog has multiple authors, but is submitted to SmartDataCollective.com via one feed.

October 30, 2011    View Comment    

On Security in the Cloud: How Are You Protecting Your Enterprise Data?

If you're talking about the public cloud and security, there isn't much to be had, especially with the contract issues with Amazon and Google - they have some interesting contractual agreements over whether or not they can hand your data over to the government if they choose. 

The private, or dedicated cloud is an optimal choice because a) you're not sharing applications or a hosting environment with other tenants and b) you know where your data is located and on what servers. Cloud computing is widely misunderstood when it comes to security since there is such a variety of options that may fit well for some companies and not others.

Our cloud computing wikipedia and cloud computing blog category has more detailed information.

October 27, 2011    View Comment