CloudWave: Healthcare Cloud and Managed Services

Park Place International, LLC doing business as CloudWave, a cloud and managed services software hosting provider in healthcare, launched OpSus Cloud Services with 6 additional healthcare institutions, bringing its total number of hospitals and healthcare organizations to nearly 250.

CloudWave provides a multi-cloud approach to guarantee uptime, easy access, and security to hospital users.

It helps these hospitals architect, build, and integrate a personalized solution using managed private cloud, public cloud, and cloud edge resources.

Over 1Q22, the company announces following cloud services integrations:

• For fully managed compute, storage, DR, archiving, backup, security, and systems management, Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas and Franciscan Hospital for Children, MA selected OpSus Live. This infrastructure as-a-service solution provides secure hosting for healthcare EHR and enterprise applications.
• To manage the protection of every mission-critical healthcare application in a hospital environment, a regional medical center in Montana selected OpSus Backup. A large health system in Ohio also added new enterprise applications to its existing OpSus Backup environment. This later is a managed backup as-a-service for the healthcare enterprise.
• A full-service acute care hospital in NYC selected OpSus Recover. It restores data to a cloud environment prebuilt and licensed for each customer’s configuration. In the event of a natural disaster, business disruption, or cybersecurity event where facilities become unavailable, it provides temporary remote operations and access to hosted systems to enable BC until hospital data center operations and data can be restored.
• Blythedale Children’s Hospital in NYC selected both OpSus Backup and OpSus Recover to protect data and enable BC.

Additionally, as cyber and ransomware attacks on hospitals are becoming more sophisticated, a host of new healthcare IT issues have emerged. For example, in these types of attacks a hospital’s existing backups are often infected along with the primary production environment. There has also been an increase in malicious actors targeting backup infrastructure to disrupt operations further.         

To combat these growing threats, CloudWave announced OpSus Vault, recently adopted by Wooster Community Hospital, OH. It is designed to protect a healthcare organization’s valuable backups vs. increasingly effective ransomware and malicious insider threats by creating a secure, offline, and immutable storage location.

It helps create an immutable backup consisting of a standalone copy with distinct security protocols, locked to prevent encryption, edits, and deletes. This immutable storage location keeps the protected extra copy separated from the rest of the storage and IT environment, particularly from the domain structure, for an extra layer of insurance. It deploys a secure, air-gapped cloud storage location that receives a save-set from an additionally scheduled backup job. The cloud location then replicates a copy of its stored contents to a secure vault located on a separate domain with an immutable storage policy. While this immutability policy is in effect, editing and deleting data is not allowed, and access is prohibited.

CloudWave’s OpSus Cloud Services provide managed hosting, end-to-end DR, systems management, security, backup, and archiving services, supporting 125+ EHR, clinical, and enterprise applications.