Evolve IP Partners With Nimble Storage for Healthcare Organizations in USA

Evolve IP, LLC announced a partnership with Nimble Storage, Inc. that provides healthcare organizations with a way to deploy on-premises Nimble Storage flash arrays, supported by HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-audited hybrid cloud, cloud backup, and DR solutions from Evolve IP.

The partnership also allows Nimble Storage healthcare customers across the United States to take advantage of the Evolve IP’s HIPAA and PCI-compliant cloud communications services, which offer encrypted IP phone systems and hosted call centers.

Custom-built cloud infrastructure leverages technologies and a cloud architecture that provides additional levels of backup and security, as well as third-party integrations for additional recovery capabilities. Healthcare customers taking advantage of the partnership are able to leverage a Nimble-centric hybrid cloud environment where protected health information (PHI) can be securely and moved between on-premises infrastructure and the cloud.

Secure Nimble-to-Nimble replication – from customers’ on-premises storage flash arrays to Evolve IP’s cloud-based Nimble flash arrays – offers volume-level replication, which allows migration of production workloads and powerful backup and recovery capabilities in the cloud. This allows customers to move services to the cloud or strengthen their BC plans without the need to invest in additional on-premises storage arrays. The Evolve IP’s cloud protects confidential healthcare data both in transit and at rest providing a HITRUST-audited, HIPAA-compliant environment in which to maintain and manage IT infrastructure. Additionally, the service provides continual data snapshots every 15 minutes with on-premises information backed up to the company’s geographically diverse, tier 4 data centers.

A key business driver for this partnership is that healthcare organizations’ demand for secure, HIPAA-compliant cloud services is at an all-time high. A recent Evolve IP’s survey of over 180 healthcare and IT executives revealed that more than 80% of firms plan to move new or additional services to the cloud within the next three years. Meanwhile, fewer than four in ten firms noted they had implemented a cloud solution on their own versus using a third party provider.

The partnership addresses these challenges by simplifying cloud adoption and enabling healthcare customers to:

• Adopt a hybrid cloud strategy at their own pace: Customers can securely replicate storage blocks allowing them to move production workloads, backups, servers, and applications to the cloud without the need to completely plan, construct, test, and migrate to a new environment.
• Flexibly manage infrastructure: Workloads and replicated data can be moved to the cloud or pulled back on premises providing on-demand flexibility to optimize environments to meet business objectives. Resources are delivered in a consumption-based model that ensures clients only pay for what they need and use.
• Implement DR as a service (DRaaS): Beyond simply creating a backup, DRaaS provides guaranteed RTO and RPO time frames. In the event of an on-premises interruption or security breach, the hosted company’s environment can rapidly be engaged as a failover location and ensure BC.
• Access a suite of PHI-secure services: From Desktop as a Service (DaaS), to cloud-based phone systems, and call centers solutions, clients can choose from a selection of HIPAA-compliant cloud services to facilitate their growth.
  

“Healthcare organizations are in the midst of a massive IT transformation to capitalize on the benefits of cloud-based services,” noted David M. McCrystal, manager, healthcare program, Evolve IP. “One of the largest needs is for hybrid scenarios where on-premises servers have a secure, offsite environment for running critical applications and performing backup and recovery. Our customers can easily and securely leverage our HIPAA-compliant, HITRUST-audited cloud for both cloud computing and cloud communication needs.“

“Evolve IP’s dedication to the unique demands of the healthcare industry and their relationships with the top agents and resellers in the United States make this partnership an ideal fit for Nimble,” said Gavin Cohen, VP, product and solutions marketing, Nimble. “We are seeing an increase in healthcare IT leaders seeking hosted environments for hybrid cloud, secure backups, and BC assurance. Evolve IP’s Nimble-to-Nimble capability provides a robust, nationwide platform to support our customers’ need to ensure security and compliance as well as rock-solid up-time.“

Together, the companies plan to expand on the success firm has had already had using Nimble Storage flash arrays for replication in the delivery of their managed virtual private cloud hosting solutions. In addition, Nimble’s customers will benefit from the company’s experience providing cloud services to more than 200 diverse healthcare industry organizations across the country. This experience has already proven critical to healthcare companies in response to the growing problem of ransomware, denial-of-service attacks, and other cyber-threats.

One of the nation’s fastest growing cloud companies, Evolve IP provides cloud services in industries including healthcare, legal, insurance, banking, technology, travel, veterinary medicine, and retail – and recognizable brands. Its OneCloud solution allows organizations to migrate multiple cloud computing and cloud communications services onto a single, unified platform including: virtual data centers / servers, IP phone systems/unified communications, DR as a service, desktop services and hosted contact centers.