November 21, 2016 | By Greg Dougherty
NEW YORK, November 21, 2016 – Opti9, a high-touch, agile Cloud and fully managed infrastructure service provider, today announces that it has been identified as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner “Market Guide for Cloud Service Providers to Healthcare Delivery Organizations” report. Opti9 was named a Representative Vendor in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) / Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) category.
As healthcare providers accelerate their cloud adoption, security risks, dynamic HIPAA laws, and legacy IT systems can present a significant barrier to ongoing success in the cloud. Gartner’s report helps healthcare organizations understand the current challenges, industry trends, and notable players in the cloud market, offering current and relevant information, IT strategy recommendations, and projections for the industry’s future.
According to the report, Gartner sees the cloud as becoming increasingly important to healthcare providers because of the pressures they will face to become more compliant and responsive to market changes while reducing or controlling costs.*
Opti9 offers fully managed and HIPAA-HITECH compliant Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds for healthcare customers, backed by the industry’s most comprehensive SLAs. These solutions are furnished via white glove service and offer the security and agility of an on-premise service, delivered with the ease of a fully managed outsourced solution.
“Many things make Opti9’s healthcare cloud solutions unique,” comments Michael C. Orza, President and CEO of Opti9. “In addition to being one of the few Cloud Service Providers that signs comprehensive Business Associate Agreements, the main advantage for healthcare providers is that they don’t have to sacrifice security to benefit from the cloud. By directly connecting to on-premise networks, Opti9 customers can consume SLA and contract-backed cloud solutions as if they were on-premise, deployed in a way that never touches the internet. They can also maintain control of sensitive data in-house while expanding computing capacity, achieving scale, and realizing cost savings.”
Opti9’s dedicated healthcare support team takes complete ownership and responsibility for all layers of customers’ Healthcare Private Cloud and IT infrastructure, consolidating accountability and security into a single provider. Opti9 also employs a HIPAA Compliance Specialist responsible for overseeing the proper implementation of managed infrastructure in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
Opti9 offers at-rest and in-transit data encryption, ensuring compliance and protection against unauthorized access and data breaches. Opti9 also offers enterprise-class healthcare Disaster Recovery that not only addresses HIPAA security requirements for protecting electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) but also enables instant recovery from Ransomware attacks and ensures the availability of mission-critical applications. Opti9 healthcare customers also gain secure access to other fully managed services available within its data centers in New York, Los Angeles, Montréal, and Amsterdam, including Colocation, Cloud Storage, Managed Security, and more via direct, private network connectivity.
Gartner: Market Guide for Cloud Service Providers to Healthcare Delivery Organizations, 16 November 2016
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About Opti9
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in New York, Opti9 is an innovative, agile and unique Managed Hosting company focused on providing the right solutions to customer needs as quickly and efficiently as possible. It does this by fully owning and controlling the entire technology stack — from the physical data center to the end-user application. Opti9’s technology solutions portfolio encompasses Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Storage, Bare Metal Servers, Colocation, CDN, Security, and Disaster Recovery. Combining industry-leading innovation, expert support, and high-touch customer service, Opti9 serves as a true technology partner to enterprises and SMBs, healthcare organizations, IT firms, eCommerce companies, and VoIP providers. Opti9 also operates an international network of data centers located in New York, Los Angeles, Montréal, and Amsterdam.