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Why Do Enterprise Companies Choose To Work With MSPs?
Enterprise Management Associates recently concluded a study asking why enterprise companies choose to work with MSPs. Jim Frey, Managing Research Director and EMA headed that study. Jim’s research uncovered a few interesting items. I will share a few of those here with you.
A Great Webinar On Backup And Disaster Recovery
I just did a one hour webinar sponsored by IBM and brought to the Internet by eWeek, a Ziff Davis Media publication. If I do say so myself I think it went very well. Elliot Markowitz of eWeek said he thought it was the best webinar so far this year.
Click Here for the Webinar:
http://bit.ly/ltTkAPDisaster Recovery: Learning from the Past to Get Ready for the Future
Internet Growth Continues To Boom
ake a quick look at this report and the increases in bandwidth usage in the past five years. The next four years show that it is not expected to slow down its robust growth.
“The report notes that global IP traffic has increased by a factor of eight times in the last five years and will increase by another factor of four in the next five years.”
HIPAA IS Leading Concern FOR CIOs
IPswitch conducted a recent survey of 100,000 end users who were asked about their most challenging compliance issues. According to the survey, compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was the clear winner for the top spot. Of the 100,000, 38.2% chose HIPAA and second place came in at 29.3% held by Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). The next closest competitor for IT concern was compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) at a mere 9.2.
Beware Of How You Answer Audit Or Assessment Questions
If you are regulated under any of the myriad government and industry regulations from ITAR, FIPS, CLETS and PCI, to HIPAA and Red flags, the process of responding to security, integrity, and availability verification is not a simple exercise. It is more than answering questions in the positive. Polices, procedures and declarations of compliance are contracts with your company, partners, clients and government regulatory bodies. What do I mean?
Balance of Sensitivity and Marketing Without Crossing into Self-Indulgence or Gratuitous Promotions.
Comedian Gilbert Godfrey lost his job with Aflac for making a joke about the Japanese tsunami. So too did an aide to Mississippi Gov. Hayley Barbour for the same reason. And some government officials and activities are catching criticism for using the crisis to grand stand on their favorite environmental and energy causes.
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