Disaster Recovery & Backup Are Part of Cloud Storage, Not Stand-alone Apps

Andres Rodriguez Nasuni Andres Rodriguez is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nasuni, a unified storage company that serves the needs of distributed enterprises. Previously he was a CTO at Hitachi Data Systems and CTO of the New York Times. Backup and disaster recovery are currently two of the most popular uses of cloud software in the enterprise. Providers of such software have experienced boom times, with a few even going public. While they've...

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Looking for a new health insurance plan? - look within

(NaturalNews) Modern day health insurance policies are payment plans intended to cover high cost emergency medical procedures. Somewhere along the way, consumers started to believe that these payment plans protect their own health. These payment plans set the mind's sailon a courseof reliance on a medical industry that manages disease, instead of empowering individual quality of life. By paying into these insurance plans, blind trust...

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Newborns Need Health Insurance Too

March 29, 2014 8:32 p.m. ET Ryan Born, 31 years old, and his wife, Kristin Born, 30, of Onalaska, Wis., have separate health-insurance plans—each enrolls through work. So when the couple welcomed their first child, Harrison, in December, they needed...

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The Health Insurance Answer That Took 3 Months

Photo Credit Christoph Hitz Email haggler@nytimes.com. Keep it brief and family-friendly, include your hometown and go easy on the caps-lock key. Letters may be edited for clarity and length._____In this episode, a rare collision of the Haggler and the news. Our letter comes from a couple who have been trying for months to...

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Repercussions and Reprieves at Health Insurance Enrollment Deadline

Photo In a campaign run by Colorado HealthOP, a nonprofit, Lauren Farnsworth, left, and April Buell urged people to get insurance. Credit Brennan Linsley/Associated Press WASHINGTON — America's health insurance marketplace closes on Monday night, the deadline for most people to obtain coverage...

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Gay Couples' Health Insurance Access Is Uneven Across The Country

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nearly every day for three months, Carl Bechdel had to make calls or send emails to try to get family insurance coverage for his husband and himself under President Barack Obama's landmark health law.The Harrisburg, Pa., couple had sent an insurer their application and a month's premium in early December but heard nothing. Weeks later, they were told their application was not processed because Pennsylvania doesn't recognize same-sex marriage. So Bechdel pushed back, repeatedly explaining...

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5 keys to surviving a police lawsuit

You survived that fast-moving incident from last shift. Perhaps it involved a car chase. Maybe you had to use force to gain a subject's compliance. Maybe you were in an officer-involved shooting. It might have been some other high-risk aspect of the law enforcer's existence. Whatever it was, now that you're safe, the question you might now be mulling is how you'll survive the inevitable lawsuit. Many lawyers and "expert witnesses" know fully what you should do, so it's in your interests to know as well. Here are some reminders to help you to...

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U.S. Announces Further Exemptions for Insurance Enrollment Deadline

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday expanded the list of people who could sign up for health insurance after the deadline, announcing "special enrollment periods" for legal immigrants, victims of domestic violence and tens of thousands of people who experienced various problems trying to complete their applications for coverage.Administration officials said that the expected surge in applications ahead of...

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Relative value health insurance, consumer directed health care, and pay-for-performance

This is the last of four posts on the idea of "relative value health insurance" that I've been promoting.  (For my other posts on this issue, see here, here, and here).  To recap, the idea behind RVHI is for a government-sponsored organization to rate medical treatments on a scale of 1-10, based on their relative cost effectiveness.  This would enable private insurers to offer, and consumers to purchase, health insurance that would cover only medical interventions that satisfy a particular cost-benefit standard.  Currently,...

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Farmers Insurance Eyes Texas for Additional Growth in Coming Year; Seeks to Add More Than 200 Agency Owners in Lone Star State

AUSTIN, Texas, March 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers Insurance, one of the largest property and casualty multiline insurers in Texas, is looking to add to its talent and grow its presence in the state with a concerted effort to add 244 Agency Owners throughout the state.  The insurer is uniquely offering special incentives to military veterans, reservists and bilingual candidates who can tap the state's increasing ...

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Rule Of Law And Instant Justice In Ghana

The Rule Of Law And Instant Justice In Ghana: A Lamentation BY: Daniel Korang Ghana School of Law, Accra Introduction After our return to constitutional democracy in 1992, it was thought that acts of violence, lawlessness, impudence and civil brutalities were effectively censured by the 1992 Constitution. Unfortunately, however, the Forth Republic has been invariably ruined by a culture of lawlessness and other constitutionally aberrant...

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Why Employers Will Stop Offering Health Insurance

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Ezekiel J. Emanuel: The exchanges have to work. Here's a prediction: By 2025, "fewer than 20 percent of workers in the private sector will receive traditional employer-sponsored health insurance." The source of this claim? Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, in his just-published book, "Reinventing American Health Care." Dr. Emanuel is an accomplished oncologist, medical ethicist and academic (and contributing opinion...

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