Level 3 Communications Blog
The practicality of EHRs and meaningful use incentives will be hot topics at HIMSS, March 3-7, 2013, in New Orleans. That’s understandable given the political and economic climate we are experiencing and see on the horizon. There’s a sea change swelling in healthcare these days, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act and enabled by [...]
In the last 365ish days, we published 75 blog posts on Beyond Bandwidth focusing on secure networks, content delivery, enterprise collaboration, the Mayan Apocalypse, and how our network stood strong during one of the biggest storms the northeastern United States has seen in over 100 years. It’s been a busy year. Here are the TOP 5 [...]
At this year’s Gartner IT Expo, several Gartner analysts described the newest challenge of information management as “Bigger Data.” Big Data is yesterday’s problem. Now we’re dealing with Bigger Data. Bigger Data isn’t a problem driven by the amount of data. We already knew that data was going to grow. Bigger Data refers to the [...]
Big data is changing the world, forcing enterprises, service providers and government entities to deploy bigger, faster computing resources to capture and process an ever expanding avalanche of data from multiple sources. This rapid growth can put a huge strain on your existing data centers as they struggle to increase processing power and storage capacity [...]
I’ve been in the telecom business for a long time and I have to admit that every once in while I consider a career change. Usually it’s after I’ve been involved in the recovery from an outage caused by one of Fred’s squirrels. Turns out that almost all of our animal damage comes from those [...]
I live in a small town just north of the #WaldoCanyonFire. Luckily, my home is far enough away from the fire that we weren’t forced to evacuate. However, the fire was still a big wake-up call for our neighborhood. We live in a beautiful, heavily forested area and one of the constant tasks that are required when [...]
Quiz time! See if you can match up these pharmaceutical companies with the country where they are headquartered (answers below): 1) Novartis 2) Pfizer 3) Novo Nordisk 4) GlaxoSmithKline 5) Sanofi-Aventis _________________________ a.) United Kingdom b.) Switzerland c.) Denmark d.) France e.) United States Modern pharmaceuticals may have humble beginnings, but since the invention of [...]
The year 2011 was one in which I learned much about the healthcare industry. It started in June of last year in a moment where my visions of ice hockey glory vastly exceeded my skill level. The result was a shattered ankle and a 7-month journey through many facets of the healthcare system. At the same [...]
According to the Mayan calendar, the world comes to an end in 2012. And while the Mayan’s were some pretty smart people, I believe that the Sun has a few more years left. But as anyone who has followed my previous musings will know, I’m a real big fan of relativity. So I’m thinking: maybe [...]
If the anecdotal stories we have been hearing are any indication, most enterprises are not as prepared as they should be for Big Data and the increased traffic that their WAN is being asked to handle. For some organizations, a rigid architecture and lack of network visibility or resources are making it difficult to scale [...]
