DESIGNING A HIGHLY AVAILABLE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT This lecture and guided demonstration will review the technologies that should be considered when designing a highly available virtual solution based on VMWare vSphere. COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE: - Product Overview, including licensing – Physical Server Architecture – Storage Implementations – DAS, iSCSI, FC – Memory Considerations – Networking (including […]
COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE: 1. MOBILE DEVICE BASICS Uses: We will cover how mobile devices are being used today and unique ways they may be used in the future. Types: there are great numbers of mobile devices currently on the market, and more on the horizon. Key Manufacturers: In most cases, even the most popular well […]
Nurses are called upon to care for and show compassion to patients day after day. All of this giving and all these emotional ups and downs can be draining. As nurses care for others without taking time to care for themselves they often will experience compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue can be an insidious thing. You […]
eWeek news reports another Health Care data breach, this one involving a USB flash drive, adding to previous incidents listed in the article, involving USB drives and lost laptops. While no encryption is unbreakable, if any removable device is likely to contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII), why not make it extremely difficult to access or […]
Hospital staff members across the country are focusing on safety in the day-to-day operation of their facilities. Safety is a broad subject, because the possibility of dangerous people coming into hospitals is often considered to be a big city problem. Below are examples of three hospitals who have implemented three diverse safety measurements. Communications Badges […]
What should you look for in a Vulnerability Scanner for your business? What factors will influence your decision? What capabilities should you look for? An article by Cristian Florian of GFI LANguard in Help Net Security provides some answers to those questions, but also points out that knowledge of the IT staff is an additional […]
To combat abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities of elderly patients, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded more than $13 million to six states to design comprehensive criminal background check programs for jobs applicants involving direct patient care. “Elder abuse and neglect is tragic and intolerable,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. […]
The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS-2011) wrapped up two weeks ago, but March 23rd’s keynote speech focused on System Center Configuration Manager’s (SCCM) expansion to management of non-Microsoft operating systems (Mac and Linux) as well as non-traditional devices, such as smart phones (including Windows, IOS, Symbian and Android devices), slates and tablets. This represents an expansion […]