January 2018

January 2018
Southwest Healthcare System Recognized
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Southwest Healthcare System was recently
recognized for being a long-standing
member of the Temecula Valley
Chamber of Commerce for 35 years. For
over three decades, the hospital system has
been a strong supporter of the chamber and
its mission to promote positive economic
growth while protecting the environment
for all businesses and by doing so, assisting
in supporting the programs which
preserve and improve the quality of life
for the entire community.
Southwest Healthcare is one of the
leading employers in Southwest Riverside
County and partners with a wide variety of
local and regional businesses. When the
hospital system looks to develop a healthcare
related event, a strategic business
relationship, or to work with institutions
of higher learning, they focus on local or
regional businesses so that the hospital,
business, and our communities, reap the
benefits of people helping people and
business helping business.
THE VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL
www.TheValleyBusinessJournal.com
“It is an honor to receive this recognition
and more importantly it is with gratitude
that we serve alongside the business
community enhancing our already vibrant
and thriving communities,” stated Brad
Neet, Chief Executive Officer.
Inland Valley Medical Center is the only
hospital in the region to offer Level II
Trauma Services, the region’s only Total
Joint Center and is a nationally recognized
center for weight-loss surgery by the
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation
and Quality Improvement Program.
Rancho Springs Medical Center features
the largest Women’s Center in the region
which includes the Rady Children’s Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (Rady San Diego:
Ranked 5th in the nation for neonatal
care) and the da Vinci © Robotic Surgical
System performing the region’s first virtually
no-scar single site procedures.
“
It is an honor to receive this recognition
and more importantly it is with gratitude
that we serve alongside the business
community enhancing our already vibrant
and thriving communities,” stated Brad
Neet, Chief Executive Officer
27
How Reliable is Your Backup?
TECHNOLOGY
by
by
Stefani
Steve Fillingim
Laszko
If you are still reading this after
reading my title, thank you -- though
I am sure you’re thinking why is there
another article on backup, right? Though
this topic has already been covered we
are still finding companies not protected.
In the last 3 months we have had 2 new
customers come to us with significant data
loss. We’re talking shut the business down
loss. Thankfully in both situations we were
able to recover the data but what these 2
companies also have in common is they
thought they had a sufficient backup solution
in place. They also spent thousands of
dollars with us in man hours and expensive
software to recover their data.
Many considerations go into determining
what type of backup makes the
most sense for your business data. Onsite
versus offsite, how much retention, how
many computers and servers, how often
you want to backup, etc. are all things to
be considered. The three main options of
computer backup are tape drive, disk to
disk and cloud.
Tape drive backup is the oldest
method of backing up but it is still very
reliable when used correctly though it
does require human intervention. Along
with being relatively expensive, a tape
drive backup will not be of any use if the
tapes are left onsite and a disaster occurs.
I’ve heard of employees taking the tapes
home with them but then you also run the
risk of something happening to it when
it’s out of the office.
USB drives, external hard drives
and network drives are all examples of
Disk to Disk (D2D) backup systems.
Compared to a tape backup system,
a D2D solution is less expensive and
much quicker. Again though, human
intervention is involved and
for higher level of protection the
devices should not be kept under
the same roof.
Cloud backup solutions are
understandably becoming the standard
among small to medium size
businesses. Most importantly, cloud
solutions are safe from burglary and
natural disasters, easily accessible
from an Internet connection and
there’s no physical device to lose
or break. Human intervention is
also minimal; often you are just
looking for a “backup successful”
indicator. The downside is that
you’re entrusting your information
to someone else so you must feel
comfortable with a company you
are working with and ensure that
they are utilizing proper safeguards
such as encryption.
Back up is a boring topic but ridiculously
important. You may even think
you’ve got a stellar system in place but
have you tested it? Do you have an onsite
backup for quick retrievals and an offsite
backup for complete restores? As much
as you’d like to deal with this topic once
and then move on it really does need to
be an ongoing business function much
like balancing your books every month. A
backup system can be reporting positive
backups but if you are not periodically
verifying the integrity of the data, you
may have a false sense of security.
Regardless of the method you
choose, proper setup, ongoing verification
of successful backups and periodic
testing is the key to protecting your data.
Just ask someone who has lost their
QuickBooks files or years of customer
data and they’ll tell you how important
it is to have a proper backup solution in
place, giving you the peace of mind that
your data is protected.
Mythos Technology is an IT consulting
and management firm. For more information,
please visit www.mythostech.com