September 9, 2015 | By Greg Dougherty
Director of Business Development Gerard Hiner to Participate in Healthcare Data Center Panel September 15 in Atlantic City, NJ
NEW YORK, NY, September 9, 2015 – Opti9, a leading provider of Cloud Hosting, Colocation and Managed solutions, today announces that its Director of Business Development, Gerard Hiner, will participate in a healthcare data center panel at the 7×24 Exchange Delaware Valley Chapter End to End Reliability Forum, taking place September 15, 2015 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The conference will converge industry thought-leaders to discuss current trends and challenges in the areas of energy efficiency, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), power and cooling, data center design and builds, disaster recovery, security, virtualization, colocation and cloud.
At 2:15 PM, Mr. Hiner will join panelists from Allscripts, Eneractive, Hackensack Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as moderator and Metro New York Chapter 7×24 Exchange President Brian Schafer, on the panel “Navigating IT and Facilities Challenges in the Healthcare Supply Chain.” The cross-divisional panel will discuss how the explosive growth of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and applications, cyber threats, weather events, federal regulation, and other industry disruptions is driving many healthcare companies to make substantial investments in hardening their physical and electronic infrastructure.
“Many IT and facilities professionals within the healthcare sector are looking to outsourced cloud and IT infrastructure solutions to help enable new industry advances, such as electronic delivery methods for health and wellness services and sensor-based IoT applications,” says Gerard Hiner, Director of Business Development at Opti9. “I’m excited to provide a data center and cloud-focused perspective to the discussion, educating attendees on how healthcare and enterprise customers working with data center, cloud and other managed service providers can ensure their data is appropriately secure and HIPAA-HITECH compliant.”
Opti9’s fully managed Cloud, Hosting and IT Infrastructure solutions and facilities, including its flagship NY1 data center on Long Island, are certified to support the HIPAA-HITECH compliance of healthcare providers and enterprise businesses. The Company’s healthcare solutions improve efficiency, reduce risk and enable organizations to focus on their core business: healthcare services and patient care.
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About Opti9
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in New York, Opti9 is a leader in managed hosting solutions, including Managed & Secure Cloud Infrastructure. Opti9’s expansive ecosystem of state-of-the-art technology solutions includes fully managed Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds, Dedicated Servers, Colocation, CDN, Security and DRaaS. Combining industry-leading innovation, expert support and high-touch customer service, Opti9 serves as a true technology partner to a vast variety of customers including enterprises and SMBs, healthcare organizations, Information Technology firms, eCommerce companies and VoIP providers. Opti9 also operates an international network of data centers located in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam.
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