Your customer can provide a wealth of insight on areas that need improvement, as well as inform and heighten lucrative strategies. With an effective survey, this insight and important perspective can become your competitive advantage, elevating your brand awareness through customer satisfaction. We consider the following 5 tips to be of the utmost importance when […]
Every healthcare professional and health-services provider in the U.S. is, and by law must be, familiar with HIPAA and HIPAA encryption compliance. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, became law in 1996 and was updated in 2003 to address the utilization and safeguarding of protected health information (PHI). Although the legislation has existed […]
The adoption and move to a cloud platform in and of itself is not something particularly relevant or new to security concerns. Co-location of compute resources to third party ISPs or even internal hosting of sensitive information is nothing new. The cloud paradigm shift is merely meant to leverage compute density, flexibility and elasticity to […]
As your business grows, so does the threat of security breaches compromising your company’s IT systems. For any business, large or small, IT security should always be placed at the forefront of importance. For many businesses, an IT security breach can practically shut a company down for a period of time, sometimes costing millions in […]
Computers have come a long way over the years, but this isn’t always so obvious when it comes to servers. Servers are computers that host information for other computers on a network. They have a lot of processing potential. A lot of power. And yet most physical servers–also called hosts–fail to tap into that power. […]
Relational databases need to be designed so that all data is in a state that is called ‘normalized.’ Normalization is the process of splitting all the data categories to be recorded in a database into groups. The categories are called attributes; the bodies they are grouped into are called entities. Normalization is a requirement for […]
Recent surveys suggest that an inordinate amount of businesses have left themselves exposed to catastrophic losses because they have no IT disaster recovery plan in place. Symantec’s 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey reported only half of surveyed business organisations have plans in place for the event of a disaster or situation that could jeopardize data […]
