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Are we going to let data centers take all the power, water, and clean air?
Green hosting. It’s clearly the wild, wild west when it comes to the race to build bigger and faster Artificial Intelligence systems. The current backbone is built on Nvidia’s GPU architecture, allowing researchers and labs to build more and more sophisticated models that seem to leapfrog each other weekly.
Are we going to let data centers take all the power, water, and clean air?
It's clearly the wild, wild west when it comes to the race to build bigger and faster Artificial Intelligence systems. The current backbone is built on Nvidia's GPU architecture, allowing researchers and labs to build more and more sophisticated models that seem to leapfrog each other weekly.
HIPAA and AI: What Healthcare Leaders Must Know Before Deploying Intelligent Tools
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming healthcare. Hospitals and health systems are exploring AI to support clinical diagnosis, manage workflows, and improve decision-making. According to Deloitte’s 2024 Health Care Outlook survey, 53% of health systems are experimenting with generative AI for specific use cases, while 27% are attempting to scale the technology across the enterprise.
Three Strategies for Winning the AI Race With DevOps - staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the software development cycle and the way applications are delivered, while influencing key technical and business decisions. For DevOps teams, this presents both challenges and opportunities. To succeed with AI in DevOps, teams must prioritize speed, pipeline efficiency and smart infrastructure. AI-driven DevOps requires building reliable, flexible processes to handle complex AI tasks and deploy features quickly and intelligently.
Three Strategies for Winning the AI Race With DevOps - DevOps.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the software development cycle and the way applications are delivered, while influencing key technical and business decisions. For DevOps teams, this presents both challenges and opportunities. To succeed with AI in DevOps, teams must prioritize speed, pipeline efficiency and smart infrastructure. AI-driven DevOps requires building reliable, flexible processes to handle complex AI tasks and deploy features quickly and intelligently.
Healthcare Remains A Top Target For Cybersecurity Attacks – How To Ensure Your Cloud Is Secure - Healthcare Business Today
Many organizations have successfully built and grown their HIPAA-compliant applications, websites, and hosted solutions on robust hosting platforms. Clients are seeing improved, streamlined operations with better data-driven insights and, above all else, better patient service. Unfortunately, despite all this progress, healthcare organizations face increased risk caused by advanced cybersecurity threats.
Is your cloud hosting ready for AI GPU accelerators? Here are 5 things you need to know!
Business cloud. An AI Accelerator is a deep learning or neural processor created specifically for inference and to improve the performance of an AI task. While Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are the most common type, other specialized accelerators include Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), Data Processing Units (DPUs), Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs).
Is your cloud hosting ready for AI GPU accelerators? Here are 5 things you need to know!
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Is AI Critical for IaaS Agility and Growth?
Cloud and managed service providers are under intense pressure to deliver the very latest hardware that's fault-tolerant, highly secure, and available on demand. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers are expected to adapt to changing market conditions and the customers’ changing needs. Combine these requirements with the fact that the industry is highly competitive and demand is extremely high, you can start to understand just a few of the daily challenges being faced.
How AI Can Help With HIPAA Compliance Auditing
Ensuring the security and privacy of electronic protected health information (ePHI) is a critical, though challenging, requirement introduced by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Originally signed into federal law in 1996 primarily to address limitations in healthcare insurance coverage, HIPAA’s scope has changed over the past three decades.
How can you prevent medical identity theft
No one wants to be the victim of theft, especially when that theft involves their medical information.
The insider threat to HIPAA compliance: Data breach
In 1996, the U.S. Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect personally identifiable patient health information (PHI). Subsequent amendments, including the Privacy Rule in 2002 and the Security Rule in 2003, further reinforced laws for all healthcare organizations and any business associate or third party responsible for handling electronic protected health information (PHI), or ePHI.
How to maintain HIPAA compliance in a remote work environment
Remote work is quickly becoming the accepted way to do business as the COVID-19 pandemic has involuntarily forced millions of employees around the world to work from home. For some, working remotely was already the norm, but no one could have predicted the sharp increase in remote work that has occurred in 2020. Healthcare isn’t immune to this shift.
What is an eCRF in clinical trials?
There’s no denying the convenience of technology in our everyday lives. We can shop, sign mortgage documents, work, and learn a new language — all from the palm of our hand. Tech is prominent in professional settings, too, helping businesses automate processes, streamline workflows, and improve communication and collaboration. It tightens data security and provides transparency — influencing how companies budget, sell, meet compliance standards, and boost productivity.
How Park County, Montana, uses Jotform to combat COVID-19
Park County, Montana, is a rural area in the United States with a population just shy of 16,000. Despite its rustic charm, Park County struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic just like the rest of the world. When the pandemic hit, Park County’s Health Department was short-staffed and still using pen and paper to collect data. This workflow wasn’t efficient enough to handle the new constraints COVID-19 put on the department. They needed a simple, powerful solution to implement right away.
The best patient communication software
How is your medical practice doing when it comes to communicating with patients? Improving communication can lead to greater patient satisfaction and higher patient retention rates — and that can improve your practice’s performance and reputation. Communicating with patients is time-consuming, but patient communication software can help minimize the time you need to devote to it. Plus, it can establish essential lines of communication with your patients.
US Healthcare Organizations will rapidly propel IT workloads to the Cloud : @VMblog
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2021. Read them in this 13th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. By Marty Puranik, President and CEO of Atlantic.Net 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for healthcare professionals, perhaps the most challenging time in the modern era of medicine.
5 Cloud Computing Trends in 2020 and Beyond
Webinar: Verifying Global Identities at Scale With so much identity data flying around online, fraudsters can easily impersonate your customers or create fake identities to exploit your business. On Aug 25 at 10am PDT, learn how Ekata data insights can help with fraud risk assessments.
7 Security Precautions to Protect Remote Workers
By Marty Puranik, President & CEO, Atlantic.Net The COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the world’s population, crippled global economies, and changed the way of life for almost every single person in every single country around the world. Nearly six million infection cases have been confirmed. Over two million people have recovered, but over 350,000 deaths have been registered so far, and sadly this figure is expected to grow substantially in the coming days and weeks.
How Will 5G Change Your Enterprise Threat Model?
5G is the fifth generation of telecommunications technology used by the mobile phone cellular network. Cell devices are connected to the Internet and a communication network via a 5G radio wave signal. 5G is already being rolled out to major cities around the world and the technology is being heralded as a game-changer for the enterprise. 5G has also introduced wider bandwidth capabilities, allowing significantly higher numbers of concurrent users to download at maximum speeds.
13 Ways to Secure Your Cloud VPS
Choosing to host your Virtual Private Server (VPS) in the cloud opens a world of possibilities to share new content with your customers. No matter which operating system you choose, be it Linux, Windows, or any other, there are a number of security measures that you can implement to secure your cloud VPS. The only good cloud server is a secure cloud server.
Important Questions to Answer Before Paying a Ransomware Demand
The landscape of cyber threats is advancing quickly. What used to be an abstract idea and only a concern for “the other guys” is something modern businesses can no longer afford to overlook. Ransomware is a prevailing threat that is quickly taking the spotlight within organizations concerned about vulnerabilities in their existing security. Even companies with cybersecurity practices that meet the modern definition of “best practices” have become victims of ransomware attacks.
What is Two-Factor Authentication? The Tip of the Security Spear
Passwords. The average American is inundated with passwords. Requirements for new passwords, login failure notifications when they forget their password, and in some unfortunate cases, alerts that their information has been compromised and all NEW passwords will be necessary. More on compromised data in a bit. But seriously, is it any wonder that password hygiene for most of us is so bad? According to some estimates, the average American has around 200 accounts that require a password to access.
Coronavirus Threat Forcing Businesses to Create a Remote Workforce?
The Novel Coronavirus – COVID-19 – is making headlines around the world. Businesses are cautiously being advised to review Business Continuity Plans (BCP) in the event the global virus outbreak is upgraded to a pandemic. Specialists have advised that citizens may have to self-isolate to contain the virus. Some estimates suggest that up to 1 in 5 people “could be off sick” in the event a pandemic is declared.
Coronavirus Threat Forcing Businesses to Create a Remote Workforce?
The Novel Coronavirus – COVID-19 – is making headlines around the world. Businesses are cautiously being advised to review Business Continuity Plans (BCP) in the event the global virus outbreak is upgraded to a pandemic. Specialists have advised that citizens may have to self-isolate to contain the virus. Some estimates suggest that up to 1 in 5 people “could be off sick” in the event a pandemic is declared.
Does the empire strike back when we learn what happens to the $10 billion JEDI contract? : @VMblog
By Marty Puranik, founder, president and CEO of Atlantic.Net Microsoft scored a huge victory by sweeping in and taking the $10 billion dollar, multi-year JEDI contract for military IT services from Amazon Web Services (owned and operated by amazon.com, its parent company).
Storing for the future: How data centers will advance in 2020
The idea that data is an incredibly valuable resource in the modern business landscape isn’t new—but best practices for managing that data seem to change almost by the year. More than ever, enterprises leverage data centers to do their work, and savvy executives will be looking ahead in 2020 and beyond to learn how data can be managed more effectively. Let’s consider three key questions here. How will the advancement of AI improve the efficiency of data center technology?
How Can Enterprises Win the Cybersecurity Arms Race?
Maintaining a strong and durable cybersecurity strategy will continue to be at the forefront of business decisions being made within the enterprise for many years to come. Securing and protecting company data has become today’s expected standard, while government laws and legislation are more frequently starting to enforce data protection regulations.
What Is The Cost Of A Data Breach?
Data breaches are big news in the modern digital workplace; the impact and detriment upon the targeted victim are of growing concern. Privacy breaches are a consequence of a cyberattack directed against a specific organization or government entity. Globally, data breaches adversely affect millions of people every single year.
Bluetooth Hacks Keep Evolving, Will Your Cybersecurity Strategy?
While the use of Bluetooth technology and other RF (radio frequency) enabled devices is commonplace in our daily lives, especially in the modern office environment, few users actually understand how the technology works. Further, even fewer understand the security risks associated with Bluetooth devices. We love the conveniences that tethering devices to wireless printers, speakers and headphones provide, so is the concern about security in the office being overhyped?
How to Ensure HIPAA Compliance Without Breaking the Bank
By Marty Puranik The health sector has invested heavily in technology and presented innovations to provide care for people, which leads to greater regulation. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the set of compliance rules that healthcare and healthcare-related organizations must follow in order to ensure the protection of digital information involved in their business as well as patients.
Cloud Computing and Cloud Servers: How Do You Know Your Cloud Data is Protected?
We don't necessarily associate clouds with stability – after all, the clouds you see out your office window (hopefully you have one) will change shape multiple times throughout the course of, say, drafting and sending an email. But thanks to the meteoric rise of cloud computing over the past decade-plus (and the growth that’s widely projected to continue), we increasingly place our precious and most sensitive data in the cloud.
Cloud Computing and Cloud Servers: How Do You Know Your Cloud Data is Protected?
We don't necessarily associate clouds with stability – after all, the clouds you see out your office window (hopefully you have one) will change shape multiple times throughout the course of, say, drafting and sending an email. But thanks to the meteoric rise of cloud computing over the past decade-plus (and the growth that’s widely projected to continue), we increasingly place our precious and most sensitive data in the cloud.
If your enterprise is still on the fence around cloud - here's what you need to know today
Cloud infrastructure services are rapidly becoming the de facto choice for enterprise IT workloads. According to Gartner, the 2019 worldwide revenue from public cloud IT services is expected to grow by 17.5% and will become a $330 billion dollar industry by 2022. Cloud-based technology is no longer an emerging trend, it’s mainstream, with 69% of enterprises moving business-critical workloads to the cloud. What is the appeal of the cloud?
Workarounds for Two-Factor Authentication in a Workplace That Isn’t BYOD-Friendly
Two-factor authentication can be difficult in a workplace that doesn’t allow smartphones. But it’s not impossible It’s hard to overstate how dramatically the smartphone has changed our world and our daily lives. With an estimated 2.5 billion of these miraculous devices out in the world today, most of us spend quite a bit of time on our smartphones engaging on social media, looking up obscure facts to win arguments or streaming our favorite shows.
Why Enterprises Cannot Afford to Ignore AI and Emergent Technology in Their Cybersecurity Strategy
One need not understand the finer details of the Dark Web in order to respect the risk these black markets pose in an increasingly data-centric world. In nearly every aspect of our modern lives, cybersecurity is becoming a necessary part of the conversation. Even novice “hackers” can rent cloud-based botnets and orchestrate DDoS attacks for around $25 per hour according to data released by Kaspersky Labs. Fortunately, the classic adage remains true, even on the Dark Web - you get what you pay for.
How Cloud Computing Has Changed Healthcare IT
By Marty Puranik Cloud computing offers scalability, agility, and efficient storage, among other benefits. These upsides have facilitated the expansion of cloud computing, as has the integration of technologies such as wearable devices, big data, and the “Internet of Things” (IoT).
Cybersecurity yet again the top priority for future innovation!
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2020. Read them in this 12th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. By Marty Puranik, President & CEO of Atlantic.Net Cybersecurity will again be at the forefront of critical business decisions made in 2020 and beyond. There will be a much heavier reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for smarter cybersecurity decision making and decision making automation.
The importance of HIPAA risk assessments
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets out several guidelines for the adoption of portability and accountability rules regarding patient information. These guidelines stipulate that all medical and hospital services need to protect the personal information of their patients, commonly known as Protected Health Information (PHI). Failure to comply with HIPAA safety standards can lead to large fines and, in extreme cases, the loss of medical licenses.
What is Considered a HIPAA Breach in 2019?
Sep 17 2019 What is Considered a HIPAA Breach in 2019? By Marty Puranik, co-founder, Atlantic.Net. Marty Puranik The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a bill passed initially in 1996, consists of a set of rules and regulations that protect the privacy and security of health information and provide individuals with certain rights to their health information.
How the rise of 5G will disrupt cloud computing as we know it
The rollout of 5G has begun in earnest. Verizon and other US carriers have already unveiled the tech and its groundbreaking speeds in a few key markets, and across the pond in the UK, some major carriers are widely expected to deploy 5G later this summer. Many expect 5G to be equally as disruptive – if not more so – than cloud computing has been over the past few years. All of this raises questions when it comes to the cloud.
Can AI Be Used To Bolster Cybersecurity?
Technology usually evolves at the speed of light. Since the early invention of cuneiform script, or writing as we call it today, many incredible inventions have followed. The computer, the internet and smartphones are just a few examples. Today, disruptive technologies like autonomous cars, smart cities, smart homes and virtual assistants have come to change the way we live.
How 5G Will Impact Cloud Computing and Remote Workforce
Having 200GB speeds in the palm of your hand is going to be a boon for business owners, remote workers, and everyone else who enjoys the internet. Take a step back and think about how many products and services we use multiple times every day of our lives that rely on cloud computing. It’s staggering. While many of the underlying frameworks and concepts of cloud computing existed as far back as the 1960s, it wasn’t until the early to mid-2000s that “the cloud” as we know it today really took shape.
AI-Powered Malware, Smart Phishing and Open Source Attacks, Oh My! The New Wave of Hacking in 2019 and How to Prevent.
The IT security industry is bracing itself for an onslaught of new wave hacking exploits which are powered by smart technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Black Hat computer experts are expected to unleash a number of unethical tactics to target and manipulate individuals and organizations who are not primed to counter it.
Are Current HIPAA Regulations Enough To Protect Sensitive Data?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) was updated and expanded with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 ( HITECH ). However, many feel its rules are still not stringent enough to sufficiently protect against breaches. After all, health care has been in the crosshairs of cybercriminals for some time.
How Edge Computing Can Lead to the First Real Smart City
Tomorrow’s smart city will rely on edge computing infrastructure to leverage the most out of the up-and-coming data-driven tech of the future. Edge computing keeps data processing when the connection is unreliable, through gathering and processing data at the same location. Self-driving cars and other IoT devices have to be built with sufficient processing power that they can perform some work themselves, at the edge, without sending it to the cloud.
The Insider Threat - the Top Security Issue of 2019?
You are put at risk by various types of problematic insiders – many of whom are not intending harm. Disgruntled employees may be acting out; they may be "second streamers" looking for additional income; departing staff may be an issue; they may be poaching intellectual property; or it may simply be negligence or poor judgment. There are various reasons that the insider is not addressed as readily as the outsider threat. However, research has shown that the insider is of increasing concern.
How to Convince Employees to Care About Security Training
When they’re trying to motivate employees to practice better security, C-suite executives will hail their staff as the first line of defense a company has against hackers and cybercriminals. What they often mean, unfortunately, is that employees’ poor security habits are costing companies time, money and a loss of critical information. A 2018 survey by information security company Shred-It found that a company’s own employees are overwhelmingly the No. 1 source of data breaches.
Two-Factor Authentication: A Top Priority for HIPAA Compliance
The traditional login process with a username and password is insufficient in an increasingly hostile healthcare data environment. Two-factor authentication (2FA) has become increasingly important.
What Is Your HIPAA Data Backup Plan?
What Is Your HIPAA Data Backup Plan? By Marty Puranik, co-founder and CEO, Atlantic.Net. Marty Puranik The data backup plan was established as a mandatory stage of HIPAA compliance to create, implement and maintain a set of rules and procedures for healthcare organizations to follow when managing the backup and restore requirements of electronic protected health information (ePHI).
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