Austin Data Storage, LLC

Many businesses store personal and private information about their clients - from credit card numbers to social security numbers to health records. Keeping this data secure is a top priority in any industry. However, for certain trades, secure data storage isn't just a good business practice, it's required by law. For example, the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also called the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), have strict requirements for protecting patient and consumer data.

In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA"). HIPAA was designed to reduce the administrative costs of healthcare, to promote the confidentiality and portability of patient records, to develop standards for consistency in the health care industry, and to provide an incentive for electronic communications.

Our downloadable white paper discusses the compliance requirements covered entities must meet and how the Austin Data Storage Online Backup service can play an important role.

It wasn't long ago that formal disaster recovery planning was limited to only large corporations. A disaster recovery project team was created and charged with the mission of protecting corporate assets. It was their job to ensure that the company could survive all types of disasters; from earthquakes and fires to computer crashes. While small and medium sized business owners understood the concept, it was not cost effective for them to allocate valuable time and limited resources to such a large project. Consequently, these businesses chose to ignore their vulnerability to major disasters and instead focused on basic protective procedures such as performing computer data backups to tape. Is it any wonder that most small businesses go out of business after suffering a major disaster?