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OVERVIEW The California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) is a Joint Powers of Authority (JPA) formed in 2009 by counties throughout the state to work on collaborative, multi-county projects that improve behavioral health care for all Californians. CalMHSA contacted databasable in 2022 to discuss how they could host their Mirth Connect environment in the AWS … Read more
OVERVIEW The RGVHIE is a non-profit organization established in 2011 to serve eight counties in South Texas with the purpose of facilitating access to, and retrieval of, health information to provide safer, more timely, efficient, and effective patient-centered care. The company provides patients with the ability to provide medical information to those who need it … Read more
At this point in time pretty much everyone knows that the cloud offers huge advantages over traditional data centers on, well, pretty much everything! Cost ✓Flexibility ✓Scalability ✓High availability ✓Security ✓. I think you get the idea! However, even the cloud isn’t bullet proof and if you don’t put the right precautions in place, one … Read more
One certainty in an uncertain world is that AWS will continue to drive innovation. The Coronavirus pandemic hasn’t slowed the ability of the world’s largest cloud provider to launch new features. The conveyor belt of new products, services and updates just keeps on rolling! In case you missed it, here are some of the latest … Read more
The cloud is speeding up innovation in today’s society, mainly because migrating to the cloud offers businesses an easy way to access faster, more flexible, and cost-efficient resources. The cloud movement is analogous to putting a jet engine in your car. The car is now much faster, but rather than quadrupling its weight and bankrupting … Read more
The cloud can dramatically lower your infrastructure costs when compared to a traditional data center. That statement is true, yet I constantly have clients that tell me they pay more with AWS than they were previously. There can be many reasons why this happens. For example the creation of a highly scalable, highly available web … Read more
It goes without saying that COVID-19 is going to remain a factor in our lives for the foreseeable future. Due to the pandemic, our work, travel and personal lives have been altered almost overnight, and while many changes will be temporary, some will most likely be permanent. While some changes are a little on the … Read more
The cloud has made it easier than ever to adhere to compliance standards such as HIPAA, HITRUST and PCI-DSS. Requirements to enable encryption of data at rest/in transit, maintain secure networks and perform frequent server patching are features that are baked in to many cloud services. One critical compliance requirement is to capture and securely … Read more
So far 2020 has been the year of change. The way we live, work and communicate has adjusted beyond all recognition in light of the Coronavirus outbreak. As a result, social distancing, self isolation and working from home are concepts being talked about more than ever. The latter, working from home, has long been a … Read more
I don’t know about you, but the word “quantum” causes mixed feelings. Half of me gets a shiver up the back of my spine as it generates flashbacks to confusing university lectures on quantum physics and quantum mechanics. The other half has fonder memories of the classic 90’s TV show Quantum Leap where Dr Sam … Read more
Cloud computing is continually evolving. One of the trends that has evolved recently is that of Serverless Computing. The term Serverless Computing implies that there are no servers involved, which is not the case. Another way of describing it would be Function-as-a-Service or FaaS, which is still vague and confusing. So what is Serverless Computing? … Read more
Businesses of all sizes are moving to the cloud, meaning specialists who can operate platforms such as AWS are in increasing demand. At the current rate of growth, a critical skills shortage could be very close to realization. When recruiting, many companies are very specific about what they want, despite recruiting in a market still … Read more
The IT world was a very different place when I first started my career at the tail-end of 1999. Phrases such as HIPAA, compliance and disaster recovery were concepts that people didn’t really think about, and if they did, they didn’t take them very seriously. In fact, as laughable as it seems now, back in … Read more
My apologies in advance, starting a blog with a quote seems like a very cliched way of writing. However, when Benjamin Franklin said the following, he may as well have been talking about many businesses approach to IT disaster recovery: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” Preparing for failure is an essential … Read more
The term “cloud” is household name these days and it’s thrown around so much you would think that everyone is using it and all IT runs from the cloud. However, the reality is far different. There are countless statistics out there that show just how small annual cloud spend is when compared to traditional IT … Read more
As an AWS certified cloud solutions architect, one of the things I am regularly asked is “Can I mine Bitcoin on AWS hardware?” My response is always “Absolutely, but you’ll end up losing money!” For those who do not know, Bitcoin mining is the process where Bitcoin transactions are verified and added to the public … Read more
The world of Information Technology is usually buzzing with the latest and greatest trends of the moment. These days, we’re hearing a lot about Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, despite the buzz, these new technologies can take time to become mainstream and sometimes will just bubble away beneath the surface … Read more
You don’t need to go to the movies to get pumped up about superheroes. Migrating from a traditional data center to the cloud completely changes the way you interact with your IT environment, turning you into a real-life superhero. The cloud computing gives you the ability to be more agile, more efficient and more scalable, … Read more
This past year has been an interesting one for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud juggernaut continues to lead the pack in the competition to be the most dominant cloud provider. Yet as the number of competitors for the title diminishes, Amazon’s dominance has started to be tested. According to the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant … Read more
As 2019 approaches, it’s time to make predictions and “guess-timates” for the coming year. But first, I wanted to look back at my trends and predictions article for 2018 to see whether I could give Nostradamus a run for his money. Did my predictions for the future confidently announced one year ago come true? Read on to … Read more
