“BCMPros’ HIPAA and HITECH expertise is significantly beneficial to us, as our medical technology client base is rapidly expanding,” states IF&D’s Steve Sowards. “This partnership is a component of IF&D’s ongoing effort to develop strategic alliances with top managed services and solutions providers in areas of expertise complementing all facets of IF&D core offerings.”

The Health Insurance Privacy and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA, protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs and requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers. Closely related to HIPAA is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which addresses the privacy and security concerns associated with the electronic transmission of health information, in part, through several provisions that strengthen the civil and criminal enforcement of the HIPAA rules.

BCMPros is a verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) composed of an experienced group of business continuity management professionals deployed to assist private and public sector entities in creating and maintaining best practices business continuity solutions. The company provides a wide-range of portfolio management support, including third-party assessments, planning and project management, as well as training and testing related to disaster preparedness and recovery, security and cloud computing.

Inland Fiber & Data is an owner and operator of data center, colocation and disaster recovery facilities in Winter Haven, Florida and Denver, Colorado. Offerings provided by Inland include wholesale data center, private data suites and traditional colocation. Inland is also a provider of private cloud services including hosted storage through its Storage on a Wire™ solution.

Inland’s primary facilities in Winter Haven, Florida include over 40,000 square feet of data center and disaster recovery space and approximately 45,000 square feet of carrier and telco hotel facilities.

The Inland facilities are SSAE 16 compliant and were designed and developed with the needs of the mission critical end-user in mind. Carrier grade facilities with fiber rich environments suit organizations seeking geo-security and system flexibility.

For Inland Fiber & Data Alliance Partner Program information, visit www.inlandfiber.com.

About BCMPros®
Business Continuity Management Professionals, LLC, (d.b.a. BCM Professionals®) is a verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) composed of an elite group of Business Continuity Management experts ready to be deployed to assist private and public sector entities in creating and maintaining cutting edge Business Continuity Solutions. BCMPros® provides a wide-range of Portfolio Management support, including third-party assessments, planning and project management, as well as training and testing related to Disaster Preparedness and Recovery, Security and Cloud Computing. For more information, please visit: www.BCMPros.com.

About Inland Fiber & Data

Inland Fiber and Data (IF&D) is a technology park located in Winter Haven, Florida. IF&D covers approximately four city blocks and currently includes over 300,000 square feet of office, medical office, data center, collocation, research and technology space. IF&D was designed and developed with the needs of the mission-critical end-users in mind. IF&D is located in the geographic center of Florida with easy access from both coasts as well as South Florida. Its protected inland location, carrier grade facilities, and fiber rich environment make IF&D a unique offering in the Florida market. IF&D is owned and operated by the 6/10 Corporation. To learn more, please visit www.inlandfiber.com.

“Becoming a member in OPN provides our organization and clients with best practices support from a global category leader,” states IF&D’s Steve Sowards. “In our ongoing effort to ensure best of breed data center services and technology solutions for our clients, IF&D continues to develop strategic partnerships, relationships, and alliances with top solutions providers in multiple areas of expertise to complement all facets of IF&D core services.”

Inland Fiber & Data is an owner and operator of data center, colocation and disaster recovery facilities in Winter Haven, Florida and Denver, Colorado. Offerings provided by Inland include wholesale data center, private data suites and traditional colocation. Inland is also a provider of Private Cloud Services including hosted storage through its “Storage on a Wire” Solution.

Inland’s primary facilities in Winter Haven, Florida include over 40,000 square feet of data center and disaster recovery space and approximately 45,000 square feet of carrier and telco hotel facilities.

The Inland facilities are SSAE 16 compliant and were designed and developed with the needs of the mission critical end-user in mind. Carrier grade facilities with fiber rich environments suit organizations seeking geo-security and system flexibility.

For Inland Fiber & Data Alliance Partner Program information, visit www.inlandfiber.com.  

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle’s partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

To date, thousands of robotic assisted microsurgical procedures have been successfully completed at institutions around the world. Experts believe the advantages provided by robotics in elimination of tremor, scaling of motion and enhanced magnification have the potential to further expand the field of microsurgery, along with uniformity in the tools utilized by microsurgeons across various fields providing a common robotic assisted microsurgical platform.

Inland Fiber & Data is an owner and operator of data center, colocation and disaster recovery facilities in Winter Haven, Florida and Denver, Colorado. Offerings provided by Inland include wholesale data center, private data suites and traditional colocation. Inland is also a provider of Private Cloud Services including hosted storage through its “Storage on a Wire” Solution.

Inland’s primary facilities in Winter Haven, Florida include over 40,000 square feet of data center and disaster recovery space and approximately 45,000 square feet of carrier and telco hotel facilities.

The Inland facilities are SSAE 16 compliant and were designed and developed with the needs of the mission critical end-user in mind. Carrier grade facilities with fiber rich environments suit organizations seeking geo-security and system flexibility.

For Inland Fiber & Data information, visit www.inlandfiber.com.

“We’re committed to operating our data centers and facilities at a level that meets or exceeds the highest industry and regulatory standards,” commented Ingram Leedy, Managing Partner of Inland Fiber & Data.

Align performed an independent audit and extensive testing of control activities and effectiveness at IF&D’s facilities, with a full assessment of oversight by executive management, operations and customer service, development and information technology organization, human resources policies, and procedures and risk assessment monitoring.

IF&D’s SSAE 16 designation is significant as a growing number of organizations find that they operate more efficiently and profitably by outsourcing data center functions to service organizations that have the personnel, expertise and technology to accomplish these tasks.

Inland Fiber & Data is an owner and operator of data center, colocation and disaster recovery facilities in Winter Haven, Florida and Denver, Colorado. Offerings provided by Inland include wholesale data center, private data suites and traditional colocation. Inland is also a provider of Private Cloud Services including hosted storage through its “Storage on a Wire” Solution.

Inland’s primary facilities in Winter Haven, Florida include over 40,000 square feet of data center and disaster recovery space and approximately 45,000 square feet of carrier and telco hotel facilities. Carrier grade facilities with fiber rich environments suit organizations seeking geo-security and system flexibility.

For Inland Fiber & Data information, visit www.inlandfiber.com.

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The procedure will be conducted November 5^th from Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, Florida by Urologic Microsurgeon Dr. Sijo Parekattil, as part of the Robotic Assisted Microsurgical & Endoscopic Society (RAMSES) 1^st Annual Multispecialty Robotic Microsurgery Symposium, Hosted by Winter Haven Hospital and held contiguously in-conference at the Disney BoardWalk Inn November 4-6 in Orlando. Dr. Parekattil is Director of Robotic Surgery & Urology at Winter Haven Hospital, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Florida. He will utilize the DaVinci Si High Definition Robotic Surgical System for the procedure.

This RAMSES meeting is the first multi-specialty microsurgical gathering of its kind, with microsurgeons from varying fields participating including hand, plastics, reconstructive, ENT, urology, gynecology, ophthalmology, vascular, orthopedics, pediatrics and peripheral nerve. It will feature speakers from both robotic assisted and conventional microsurgical techniques.

To date, over 300 robotic assisted microsurgical procedures have been successfully completed at institutions around the world. Experts believe the advantages provided by robotics in elimination of tremor, scaling of motion and enhanced magnification have the potential to further expand the field of microsurgery, along with uniformity in the tools utilized by microsurgeons across various fields providing a common robotic assisted microsurgical platform.

Inland Fiber & Data is an owner and operator of data center, colocation and disaster recovery facilities in Winter Haven, Florida and Denver, Colorado. Offerings provided by Inland include wholesale data center, private data suites and traditional colocation. Inland is also a provider of Private Cloud Services including hosted storage through its “Storage On A Wire” Solution.

Inland’s primary facilities in Winter Haven, Florida include over 40,000 square feet of data center and disaster recovery space and approximately 45,000 square feet of carrier and telco hotel facilities.

The Inland facilities are SSAE 16 compliant and were designed and developed with the needs of the mission critical end-user in mind. Carrier grade facilities with fiber rich environments suit organizations seeking geo-security and system flexibility.

To register for the live online event, visit www.ramsesmicrosurgery.org.

The Application-Aware™ Pillar Axiom storage system offers a unified SAN/NAS platform that combines innovative performance characteristics and the unprecedented ability to enable administrators to assign storage resources (capacity, CPU, and cache) based on business requirements or conditions to provide a consistent Quality of Service.

The Pillar Axiom system delivers differentiated services from multiple LUNs striped across high-capacity spindles to gain high performance and high utilization, enabling consolidation of applications on a single storage platform. Axiom is an ideal storage platform for virtual infrastructure projects, IT data center consolidation projects, Oracle deployments, and bringing business-critical applications, such as financial and OLTP, online with the highest levels of performance without tradeoffs for capacity utilization.

Recognizing that business priorities and needs change over time, Pillar enables LUNs or file systems to be promoted or demoted ‘on the fly’ as an application storage group to increase or decrease performance and priority of the application to meet the changed needs of the business.

From the geographically protected locations of Winter Haven, Florida and Denver, Colorado, Inland Fiber & Data Shared Resource Center provides optimally reliable data suite, colocation and alternate workforce recovery facilities, ‘Storage on a Wire’ storage area network (SAN) flexibility and related managed services, along with contiguous office space. Inland’s high-availability data centers are deliberately designed and diligently managed for uninterrupted service and business continuity. SAS 70 compliant and LambdaRail node enabled, Inland encompasses over 300,000 square feet of finished and built-to-suit space supported by reliable power distribution and diverse connectivity, with monitored camera, key scan and biometric security. IF&D’s system-dedicated staff focuses on the management of the storage platform with around the clock event monitoring, proactive storage administration and capacity planning. Inland’s goal is the role of trusted partner who will protect an organization’s data and provide disaster recovery, establishing an essential extension of their operations, scalable for growth.

IF&D is a technology park located in Winter Haven, Florida that covers approximately four city blocks and currently includes over 300,000 square feet of data center, colocation, telecommunications, and technology space as well as corporate and medical offices. IF&D was designed and developed with the needs of the mission-critical end-users in mind and is situated in the geographic center of Florida between rapidly growing Tampa and Orlando markets, with ease of airport and roadway access. Its protected inland location at 168 feet above sea-level and outside the 500 year flood zone, along with its carrier grade facilities, fiber rich environment and LambdaRail node make IF&D a unique offering in Florida where a company’s critical IT infrastructure is protected.

Located within the Inland Fiber & Data Technology Park, FBCC provides full service alternate workforce recovery services as well as related disaster recovery and data center services for businesses and government entities seeking a secure inland location for temporary staff relocation in ensuring continuity of business operations. Fully-appointed facilities include fully equipped workstations with available advanced call center capabilities, on-site technical support, private offices, conference rooms, kitchen and break rooms, equipment storage space, and shower facilities.

For infrastructure and services information, and to arrange a facilities tour, call Steve Sowards at 863.206.7344 or email ssowards@inlandfiber.com.

According to the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, publisher of annual hurricane activity forecast reports, researchers Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray anticipate well above-average activity for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, indicating probability of the United States and Caribbean experiencing major hurricane landfall.

Their 2011 report concludes that the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will have significantly more activity than average. They estimate that this year will have about 9 hurricanes (average is 5.9), 16 named storms (average is 9.6), 80 named storm days (average is 49.1), 35 hurricane days (average is 24.5), 5 major (Category 3-4-5) hurricanes (average is 2.3) and 10 major hurricane days (average is 5.0).

 Klotzbach and Gray indicate probability for at least one major hurricane tracking into the Caribbean (10-20°N, 60-88°W) is 61% (average for last century is 42%). Probabilities for at least one major hurricane landfall on each of the following coastal areas:

1) Entire U.S. coastline: 72% (average for last century is 52%)

2) U.S. East Coast Including Peninsula Florida: 48% (average for last century is 31%)

3) Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville: 47% (average for last century is 30%).

 IF&D is a technology park located in Winter Haven, Florida that covers approximately four city blocks and currently includes over 300,000 square feet of data center, colocation, telecommunications, and technology space as well as corporate and medical offices. IF&D was designed and developed with the needs of the mission-critical end-users in mind and is situated in the geographic center of Florida between rapidly growing Tampa and Orlando markets, with ease of airport and roadway access. Its protected inland location at 168 feet above sea-level and outside the 500 year flood zone, along with its carrier grade facilities, fiber rich environment and LambdaRail node make IF&D a unique offering in Florida where a company’s critical IT infrastructure is protected.

For Inland Fiber & Data infrastructure and services information, and to arrange a facilities tour, call Steve Sowards at 863.206.7344 or email ssowards@inlandfiber.com.

The FLR provides a scalable point-to-point optical transport network solution that meets long-term and network requirements. The FLR offers several advantages: a reliable and flexible network infrastructure that can grow and incorporate technological advancements; enhanced network performance and bandwidth capabilities; and collaboration and advanced communication among research participants

• Dynamic bandwidth allocation. Utilizing dedicated and shared 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 1 Gigabit Ethernet high-performance data circuits, FLR participants are provided with additional capacity “on demand”, to accomodate bursts in data-traffic, videoconference, or other special requirements.
• Connectivity to commercial Internet Service Providers in order to provide economical and reliable Internet service to FLR participants
• Connectivity to advanced production regional and national networks, such as the NLR and Abilene Internet2 backbone, supporting new applications and services
• High Speed IP transit paths between participants, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. The FLR is designed to allow growth in terms of the number of hosts connected as well as the amount of data transmitted
• Network peering between the FLR and other data networks. Arrangements with other networks and traffic exchange points allow the FLR to route and exchange network traffic, resulting in fewer hops and faster access to user destinations.
• Dedicated wavelenghts between FLR participants or FLR and NLR participants. For research applications needing a dedicated wavelength service, the FLR offers participants, point to point, 1.0, 2.5, or 10 gigabits per second optical lambdas as a complement to the FLR optical-based backbone services.

WINTER HAVEN – Florida LambdaRail has arrived in town, bringing with it higher-speed Internet, greater security and endless research capabilities.

Business and community leaders braved cold weather and gathered Wednesday evening to celebrate the launch of Florida Lambda Rail at the Six Ten Plaza and Inland Fiber and Data campus downtown.

“We’re here to celebrate what we know will be a significant economic development opportunity for Winter Haven – Florida LambdaRail,” said Bud Strang, president of the 6/10 Corporation and Inland Fiber and Data Technology Park.

Florida LambdaRail is now one of 15 service providers housed at Inland Fiber and Data, located at 199 Ave. B, N.W., in the former Verizon telephone company building.

During the short program, representatives from three organizations already on board with LambdaRail – the University of South Florida, Polk State College and Winter Haven Hospital – spoke of the significance of having a local connection in Winter Haven.

“The importance of LambdaRail is the ability to connect,” said Michael Pearce, chief information officer for USF and board member with Florida LambdaRail.

“At the heart of LambdaRail is the driving need to move forward facilitating partnerships with universities, research communities, governmental and health organizations through emerging technologies,” he added.

Marshall Goodman, the chief executive officer of USF Polytechnic, described LambdaRail as “an amazing pathway to commerce.”

Goodman remembered the vision of Marlene Young, the late Winter Haven mayor, who he said first brought the building currently housing Inland Fiber and Data to his attention four years ago. Young had touted the building’s existing fiber-optic lines and the possibilities they offered.

Eileen Holden, president of Polk State College, said she expects the college to transition to the LambdaRail system during spring break, when the college will be closed.

“We’re really looking forward to tapping into the larger community to enhance our curriculum offerings and our ability to exchange information,” Holden said. “We’re very excited there is a LambdaRail connection here in Winter Haven.”

“What LambdaRail is bringing to the students is access to the world,” she added.

Lance Anastasio, president of Winter Haven Hospital, spoke of opportunities for enhanced cooperative medical research and communication throughout the state, particularly in light of the hospital’s advancement in robotics and microsurgery.

“It will allow us to do things we once thought impossible,” Anastasio said.

The evening culminated with Winter Haven Mayor Jeff Potter leading the crowd in a countdown to a laser-light show illuminating the side of the building with a globe containing an outline of Florida and a moving banner of “Florida LambdaRail.”

“This is one of the best presents Winter Haven could receive this year. This is an exciting event,” Potter said.

Online since 2005, Florida LambdaRail is an ultra-high-bandwidth network dedicated solely to research. It is designed to send massive files at much higher speeds than other Internet providers.

A branch of the National LambdaRail system, Florida LambdaRail enables universities and their partners to transcend distance and collaborate on advanced research, education, and economic development activities through a high-performance experimental, research and production, networking and support infrastructure.

Its primary uses are in health care, government, and education and research.

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