Compliance Do’s and Don’ts: What Your Cloud Provider Needs to Show You
Compliance means a lot of different things to a lot of different companies and people. And as much as compliance can sometimes be no more than a checklist, it’s always an important consideration when...
View ArticleHealthcare SaaS Providers: What the Cloud Needs to Show You
When discussing the cloud in relation to the healthcare industry, there is a necessary differentiation that must be made between companies that provide service directly to patients and the businesses...
View ArticleHow to Begin with a Public Cloud and When to Move to a Private Cloud
Over the next few blog posts, we’re going to explore the business conditions and considerations that drive different hosting and infrastructure choices for a range of companies. Today we begin with how...
View ArticleHow to Evolve from a Private Cloud to a Hybrid Cloud
In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed the business drivers that determine when to use the public and then the private cloud. This post explores the business needs that highlight hybrid cloud as a...
View ArticleCloud Rewind: For Healthcare SaaS Providers, What the Cloud Needs to Show You
When discussing the cloud in relation to the healthcare industry, there is a necessary differentiation that must be made between companies that provide service directly to patients and the businesses...
View ArticleThe Cost of Being Secure: Cloud Adoption Roadblock?
Cloud has gotten us used to the cost model of increased usage corresponds to increased cost, and vice versa. Even with private clouds, where cost is more predictable, the correlation occurs, though...
View ArticleHealthcare IT and Cloud: Evolving Toward Adoption
Pre-cloud healthcare IT looked very different than it does today. HIPAA came into existence in the mid 90s and it took about 10 years for its rules and protocols to become well established industry...
View ArticleCloud and Obamacare: Mandates for Healthcare Change?
No matter your political bent, one of the more interesting aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare in the common parlance) is its emphasis on technology’s role in curbing...
View ArticleWho’s Who in Cloud April 26, 2013
Oh no it’s Friday the 26th!…which is alright by us. This week’s cloud publishings highlighted the increasing relevance of HIPAA on how cloud companies are seeking to operate, some major investments...
View ArticleCertifiably Cloud: AWS Announces Accreditation
Last week several reporters, including Gathering Clouds friend in the field Barb Darrow, analyzed Amazon’s recent announcement of its cloud certification program. Widely seen as a positive move for the...
View ArticleSecurity and Latency: Big Data Concerns In The Cloud Persist
In a piece published yesterday, Gathering Clouds favorite David Linthicum discussed the viability of Werner Vogel’s (of AWS fame) view on how big data and cloud are meant to work together. Linthicum...
View ArticleThe (Other) Most Important Reasons Cloud is Made for Healthcare
HIMSS 2013 was a big moment for cloud in healthcare. As a topic of discussion, it was certainly on the lips of many at the show, but increasingly the realities of cost and functionality are pushing...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Healthcare
Editor’s note: Gathering Clouds is pleased to welcome noted thought leader, SVP of Cloud Technology Partners, and Cloud Player David Linthicum as a regular contributor. David is a renown expert in all...
View ArticleHIPAA and Cloud Computing is a Great Match
Editor’s note: Gathering Clouds is pleased to welcome noted thought leader, SVP of Cloud Technology Partners, and Cloud Player David Linthicum as a regular contributor. David is a renown expert in all...
View Article3 Steps to Lower Costs and Improve Compliance Using Cloud
Editor’s note: Gathering Clouds is pleased to welcome noted thought leader, SVP of Cloud Technology Partners, and Cloud Player David Linthicum as a regular contributor. David is a renown expert in all...
View ArticleCloud Security in the Healthcare Vertical
As we begin to study security, healthcare, and the cloud, we’re finding that cloud-based data storage systems are perhaps more secure than traditional on-premise systems. Most in the healthcare space...
View ArticleMaking Clouds and Hospitals Work Together
The use of cloud computing is growing everywhere, even within healthcare providers. The reasons are becoming clearer, including the changing regulatory environment which is forcing quick change, as...
View ArticleWho’s Who in Cloud July 26, 2013
Let’s just take a moment to praise the fact that its Friday. Ok, glad we got together and did that. Now, it’s safe to say we’re living in the golden age of IT, in which cloud computing will become, if...
View ArticleCloud Computing and Meaningful Use…Making the Connections
According to this Health Market Science report “The meaningful use initiative may migrate healthcare services to cloud computing.” While there are many in the healthcare vertical that deny that this...
View ArticleBest Practices For Cloud Governance within Healthcare
When you think of cloud computing in the healthcare vertical, you also have to think of security and governance. Indeed, the need to control and secure healthcare data in the cloud is a big issue, and...
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