Disaster Recovery

Lawsuit Alleges No IT Infrastructure Backup Before Sutter Outage

July 25, 2019 - Sutter Health failed to put in backup health IT infrastructure prior to a massive network outage in May 2018, despite being warned about the risk, charged Stuart James, former chief information service operating officer at the health system in a lawsuit filed July 24 in Sacramento Superior Court. James alleged that he submitted a 124-page...


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HHS to Identify Healthcare Infrastructure Critical in Emergencies

by Fred Donovan

Under legislation signed June 24 by President Trump, HHS is directed to work with other public health officials and private sector entities to identify the critical healthcare infrastructure...

More Government Investment in Health Security Infrastructure Needed

by Fred Donovan

The National Health Security Preparedness Index report called on federal, state, and local governments to increase funding for health security infrastructure projects, after a 20-year decline in...

Texas To Deploy PULSE for Health Data Exchange in Emergencies

by Fred Donovan

Texas is looking to deploy the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE) platform, which was developed by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT to provide secure health...

Network Segregation Is Best Way to Thwart Ransomware Attacks

by Fred Donovan

Network segregation is the most important step a healthcare organization can take to thwart ransomware attacks, commented Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Brian Bartholomew. “Anything...

Hurricane Season Threatens Healthcare Disaster Recovery Plans

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Nearly 50 percent of healthcare organizations have doubts in their disaster recovery solutions as hurricane season begins to threaten the US, according to a DrFirst survey. Hurricane Florence is about...

Machine Learning, Network Monitoring Top HIMSS 18 Releases

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

HIMSS18 is currently underway in Las Vegas and many vendors have released new health IT infrastructure focused solutions to help healthcare organizations transition more smoothly in their digital...

Planning for Data Backup, Recovery in Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare data backup and data recovery are critical components of every health IT infrastructure. The inability to access data is a serious issue in healthcare. Organizations constantly face the possibility of data breaches, ransomware...

How Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Benefits Remote Healthcare

by Bill Kleyman

One of my favorite parts of the job is seeing how new technologies are impacting peoples’ lives. This is very much evident when you’re working with healthcare. Hyper-converged...

Barracuda, AWS Release Public Cloud Data Replication Tool

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Barracuda announced the expansion of its data protection solutions by adding public cloud data replication to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for backup and disaster recovery. Organizations currently using...

C-Level Executives Fear Missing Healthcare Cloud Innovations

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

A recent report released by Commvault revealed that 81 percent of C-level executives are concerned that their organization is not adopting new cloud technologies quickly enough, and even fear missing...

Actifio Tools Help Organizations Deduplicate Migrated Data

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Actifio and Tier4 Advisors announced their partnership to bring Actifio’s enterprise data-as-a-service (EDaaS) to Tier4 clients, including healthcare organizations. Actifio’s tools assist...

Organizations Seek Automation for Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are digitizing their health IT infrastructure and many are looking to automate data processes to free up clinicians’ time. IBM and Automation Anywhere announced their...

BCM, Disaster Recovery Give Visibility During Data Breaches

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Business continuity management (BCM) and disaster recovery are two tools that work together to detect data breaches and ensure workflows remain uninterrupted. According to the Business Continuity...

Peak 10 Expands DRaas Service Lengthening Recovery History

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Peak 10 announced upgrades to its disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) Recovery Cloud with a new failback expansion feature called Extended Journaling. The new feature allows organizations to expand...

Catalogic Releases Expanded Database Virtualization Solution

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Catalogic Software announced the availability of the newest version of its main software product, Catalogic ECX 2.6 featuring expanded in-place database virtualization technology. Catalogic ECX 2.6...

DRaaS Critical to Recovering HIT Infrastructure Downtime

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As health IT infrastructure datacenters collect more information from mobile and connected medical devices, organizations are faced with making sure all the data is backed up in the event of a system...

Utilizing Cloud Backup for Minimal HIT Infrastructure Downtime

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Backing up and recovering clinical data securely and easily during an outage is a top challenge for healthcare organizations.  Cloud backup and recovery solutions can bring security to health IT...

Actifio Announces Support of Microsoft Azure Migration

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Data virtualization company Actifio has announced its support of Microsoft Azure via Actifio Sky to enable instant recovery across data centers and cloud-based infrastructure. Microsoft Azure is...

DRaaS, Storage Among Top Growing Health IT Cloud Adoptions

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

New market projections foresee a growth in cloud computing adoption over the next few years, especially in the areas of storage and disaster recovery.  First, a Research and Markets report on...