Question 1: Privacy laws and regulations require medical facilities to take measurable steps to ensure the confidentiality of patient information. From this case study, can you tell what Denver Health has done to ensure the confidentiality of its patient information?

Denver Health is using private cloud to ensure the confidentiality of patient information. Private cloud is the phrase used to describe a cloud computing platform that is implemented within the corporate firewall, under the control of the IT department.

A private cloud implementation aims to avoid many of the objections regarding cloud computing security. Because a private cloud setup is implemented safely within the corporate firewall, a private cloud provides more control over the company’s data, and it ensures security, albeit with greater potential risk for data loss due to natural disaster.

Question 2: Think about your school, how could it use the ThinIdentity solution to support the technology needs of (1) faculty and (2) students such as yourself?

It can help institutions allocate consumption of resources (chargeback) by different services or departments to better prioritize IT spend. By taking advantage of the private cloud across servers, desktops, and applications, education institutions can:
- reduce cost. Help reduce physical server sprawl and total cost of ownership of hardware
- simplify desktop management. Provide optimal desktop solutions for different user needs, while reducing IT complexity
- improve access to applications. Help increase academic institution agility through on-demand access to applications, and enable anywhere access for students and faculty
- integrate technologies. Minimize application and OS compatibility issues.

For student, ThinIdentity can help to facilitate the dynamic learning, teaching, and research activities in a university. It