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Strategic Alliance - Avnet Cloud Hosting
Claydata's cloud hosting capability
One of the unique benefits of Claydata's e-health solution is unmatched accessibility. This is achieved through a novel cloud-based software-as-a-service (SAAS) concept, whereby all PuttyHealth modules - and the medical information that is handled by them - are served from a web-based data cloud. This means you can access (and interrogate, update and communicate) all aspects of your enterprise – booking, billing, communication, and electronic medical records (EMR) - from any device: desktop computer, laptop, smartphone, iPod or Android tablet.
What exactly is cloud computing?
Gartner's Cloud Computing Research Report defines cloud computing as
The evolution of IT
Cloud computing is an essential factor in modern information technology systems. Essentially, this is because cloud computing functionality reflects three trends in the contemporary world:
These factors are as relevant to the provision of effective healthcare as they are to any other industrial, civil, professional, or service domain.
No use living under a cloud if you have a leaky roof
It is fair to say that concerns over data security are proportional to the degree to which you and your data are mobile. Add to this the extra security and privacy controls necessary in the case of health information and you'd think that cloud-based, mobile data solutions are a hazard to healthcare. Indeed, the emphatic data security concerns specific to healthcare are reflected by the degree to which medical information technology and communications are regulated, surrounded by compliance codes and regulatory requirements.
PuttyHealth plugs the security gap
With these concerns and these security protocol in mind, Claydata set about crafting an e-health solution - PuttyHealth - that would both preserve device mobility and data-structure flexibility and exceed standard security requirements. PuttyHealth conforms to interoperability standards such as HL7, and has a distinct edge over the domestic health IT industry.
There's no software without hardware
With Claydata's software innovations and promises of the highest-level security-standard compliance comes the responsibility to ensure that security and privacy is maintained right down to the ground. For it is unavoidably the case that every cloud has, somewhere, a tangible, material source - by this we mean a host. So, when selecting a partner to host our and our cients' data we went to the best.
The host with the most
Avnet - strength in numbers - the facts
As a company, Avnet boasts some impressive credentials. Here's a selection.
How Avnet empowers you
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Knowing that we'd have to seek high to match not only our adroit software solution but our ambitions for an e-health solution unshackled from conventional data management paradigms, we sought and secured our cloud hosting services from one of the world's largest, oldest and most respected vendor of information technologies, Avnet. With Avnet on side, our clients can have the utmost confidence in their data integrity. Let's have a look at some stats.
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These hosting services establish the tightest network schematic possible, a fully redundant network.
What could possibly go wrong?
With such world-class systems in place to protect your data and ensure access to your data at all times, it is extremely unlikely that the network will experience any downtime. To back this up, Avnet offer a 99.999% network uptime guarantee. This equates to a guarantee against less than 26 seconds of downtime per month. In the event of hardware failure that circumvents redundancy, Avnet also offer a 4-hour maximum replacement window for dedicated servers. You're in the best hands the IT industry can offer.
There are, however, additional measures taken by Avnet to prevent crisis, and to provide support in times of crisis.
- 24/7 Immediate Response phone-based support
- Direct contact with level 2 support engineers
- Dedicated account management
- Managed backups
- Disaster recovery/business continuity strategy (on-shore/off-shore)
- Level 2 server management - antivirus, critical patching, monitoring and alert procedures
In the cloud, the pros outweigh the cons
Ultimately, the benefits of a cloud-based solution far outweigh the problems one must expect from a traditional, on-premises IT solution.
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| Hosting (IaaS) | Hosting (IaaS) |
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| Infrastructure Utility Services (Saas) | Infrastructure Utility Services (Saas) |
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| DC Outsourcing (Managed Services) | DC Outsourcing (Managed Services) |
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What this means for our clients
- Cost reduction and IT economy - pay for what you use
- Scalability - consume IT resources according to your company's growth
- An agile, responsive approach to backup, disaster recovery and business continuity
- Superlative data security
- Instant access to innovation
- A mobile workforce
- Ease of implementation
- An even playing field for smaller-sized clients
- 24/7 access to skilled specialists rather than general IT specialists
How do I save?
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| Cloud computing is a pay-as-you-go approach to IT, in which a low initial investment is required to get going. Your investment matches system cost. | There are no hidden surprises. All maintenance, power and cooling costs are rolled into the PAYG model. | While companies spend up to 75% of their total IT budget just to maintain systems and infrastructure*, cloud computing frees up your budget and personnel for forward-thinking IT innovation. |
Cloud computing = cost savings + efficiency + increased collaborative potential
Some more analysis from Gartner:
- Gartner estimates that the annual cost of owning and self-managing software applications can be as much as four times the cost of the initial purchase.
- IT departments operating and maintaining on-premises software allocate the majority of their budgets to hardware and IT professionals whose roles are absorbed by application maintenance tasks.
- Cloud-based applications are one of the key enablers of the mobile workforce.
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| Typical budget for a premises-based software environment | Typical budget for a cloud-based software environment |
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Conclusions
In short, Claydata's strategic alliance with Avnet means that your enterprise and stakeholders, your data, are invested in a world-class hosting environment.
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Powerful, Secure, Flexible, Affordable Hosting
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Contact us
For more information, contact the Claydata team on
02 80210210
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