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I believe there is a HIPAA fear still out there which the term “Cloud” has created. It gives the impression that the data is going somewhere…up there in the mist.
With virtualization many data centers are finding it extremely easy to decrease the number of racks and hardware, while adding blade servers and increasing the supported applications. But storage and off site backups still remains an expensive solution.
There is a fear of sending data to a cloud or some environment that you can’t physically touch. Yet, in healthcare we have used application vendors to provide ASP solutions for years. These solutions are essentially…a cloud.



