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Dirk Arends

Dirk Arends is a Cloud Solutions Expert with specialties in VDI, DRaaS, Mobility, and Quickbooks Hosting.
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What the SolarWinds Hack Means to Companies Downstream

Posted on February 23, 2021 in by Dirk Arends

News about the SolarWinds hack keeps getting worse.

Why Did My HIPAA Compliant Cloud Solution Just Get Hacked?

Posted on February 10, 2021 in by Dirk Arends

It’s easy to understand why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces requirements for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant cloud solutions.[...]

What’s happening to client rights in SaaS solutions?

Posted on January 20, 2021 in by Dirk Arends

In a highly publicized move, Amazon Web Services (AWS) removed the social media platform Parler from its cloud early on January 11. While the debate continues about the specifics of this situation in[...]

Meet Our Client: LBM Advantage

Posted on December 08, 2020 in Cloud Connect by Dirk Arends

Meeting the Goal of Greater Business Continuity

A business continuity strategy enables an enterprise or organization to keep essential operations running if a natural disaster, network outage – or a[...]

3 Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery Trends That Will Make Life Easier in 2021

Posted on December 01, 2020 in Disaster Recovery, data protection plan, Security by Dirk Arends

The general rules of backing up your data aren’t complex. Make copies, keep them in different places, and ensure your process to use that copied data is relatively easy and fast. However, as[...]

We asked almost 500 IT professionals for their most challenging Backup and Disaster Recovery Questions. Here’s what they said.

Posted on November 17, 2020 in by Dirk Arends

On November 5, Virtual Systems presented a Live Event with Veeam titled “The Biggest v11 Sneak Peek Event, Ever. We decided to give it an “anti-webinar feel” as an alternative to virtual[...]

Why backup Office 365? Microsoft already does that...Right?

Posted on July 10, 2018 in Office 365 by Dirk Arends

Do they?

VDI is your next play for Desktop Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Chances are your business will encounter an IT disaster. Zetta contends 54% of companies reported a downtime event that lasted more than 1 business day in the last 5 years.

Horizon Virtual Desktops: A Guide to Your DaaS Architecture

Posted on October 25, 2017 in Branch in a Box, vCenter, VMWare, VDI, VDI-as-a-Service by Dirk Arends

Beginning Architecture Considerations

How do I get HIPAA Compliant QB Hosting??

Posted on September 26, 2017 in Desktops, HIPPA, IT Community, QuickBooks by Dirk Arends

Quickbooks Hosting Solutions aren't all the same. And if you're in the healthcare industry, you have an added layer of complexity surrounding your data protection: HIPAA Compliance. Today, Intuit[...]