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STARLIMS CLOUD
SERVICE OVERVIEW
STARLIMS is pleased to announce STARLIMS Cloud Services, featuring the innovation of STARLIMS’s industry-leading LIMS, combined with the worry-free, cost-effective reliability of a cloud-based solution, all for a monthly subscription fee. The STARLIMS Cloud is a secure application environment consisting of powerful server and storage technologies. The STARLIMS Cloud is managed by STARLIMS and can be accessed by customers via a web browser. STARLIMS Cloud Services is available for Manufacturing, Forensics, Environmental, and Public Health customers and will soon be expanded to include Clinical Research and Diagnostic customers.
With STARLIMS Cloud Services, you do not have to purchase hardware, install software, or manage your system infrastructure. STARLIMS Cloud Services allows you to be more productive and cost-efficient by allowing you to concentrate on what matters most—your business. STARLIMS Cloud Services Includes:
• A public or private cloud offering
• All software licensing
• Application(s) high availability
• Development, testing, validation, and/or production application environments
• Infrastructure maintenance including installation, patch management, and malware protection
• System monitoring, notifications, etc.
• Database maintenance, backup, and retention services
• HIPAA compliance for regulated customers
Lightning-Fast Dependability
Often, companies are challenged to deploy systems within short timelines, and those challenges can be exacerbated by having to contend with equipment and personnel resourcing needs. STARLIMS Cloud Services drastically reduces the time required to begin a project, whether constructing an initial Proof-of-Concept, or deploying a full system. There is little time spent navigating the budgetary process for hardware purchases or identifying IT support resources to staff the project.
Why wait for infrastructure to be provided when you can immediately begin planning, design, development, and training? With STARLIMS Cloud Services you can speed up development, testing, and/or training environments on demand. Perhaps your company would prefer to manage its production environment, but does not wish to purchase extra computing resources for development and training needs? Not to worry! Regardless of whether your company decides to deploy 100% of your system in the cloud, or prefers to retain a conventional on-premises solution for your production environment while utilizing the STARLIMS Cloud for your system development, testing, and/or training needs, STARLIMS Cloud Services can tailor a cloud environment to meet your requirements.
Reliable System Stability, Carefree Maintenance, and Continuous Optimization
We will ensure your system is ready and available when you are. Our DBAs will monitor your system’s performance and keep your systems tuned, while our IT experts will ensure system updates and patches are installed and up to date.
Security and HIPAA Compliance
One of the concerns about data transmitted or maintained in the cloud pertains to data security. STARLIMS Cloud Services encrypts data in transit and at rest so that you can be assured that your data is safe
and secure. STARLIMS additionally offers a HIPAA compliant Cloud Services option that meets all HIPAA regulatory requirements.
Dynamic Environment
As your business needs evolve, so do your computational needs. STARLIMS Cloud Services will adapt your CPU, memory, storage, and throughput requirements to meet your needs. Gone are the days when changing needs meant changing hardware and serious impact to your users. STARLIMS offers best-of-class Cloud environments, whether Public or Private, to complement your business’ Cloud Strategy. With the STARLIMS Public Cloud, customers can access their STARLIMS environment directly via the Internet. With the STARLIMS Private Cloud, customers can access their STARLIMS environment as an extension of their internal network via secure connections such as IPSec or MPLS.
FREqUENTLy ASkED qUESTIONS
STARLIMS CLOUD SERVICES
STARLIMS environment is an extension of the internal network via secure connections, such as IPSec or MPLS. Our STARLIMS Cloud Services team will discuss your requirements at length and outline the options available to you.
Will my STARLIMS user experience be the
same as if it were installed on-premises?
As with an on-premises deployment, users will access STARLIMS via a web browser and enjoy the same STARLIMS user experience. Users who have used STARLIMS in an on-premises deployment will not notice a difference.
When STARLIMS applies patches and
performs maintenance, will the system be
unavailable?
In order to minimize impact to your business, the STARLIMS Cloud Services Team will notify you within a specified time frame when maintenance needs to be performed.
Can we still interface instruments?
Instruments are interfaced the same way as in on-premises STARLIMS deployments. Your instrument workstations and data acquisition systems
communicate with STARLIMS directly.
What are STARLIMS Cloud Services?
The STARLIMS Cloud Services facilities that we utilize are state-of-the-art. The STARLIMS Cloud provides more than just hosting services. A complete portfolio of cloud products and services ranging from creation of a public or private cloud environment for your company, to the support, maintenance, and performance monitoring of your STARLIMS cloud deployment are provided. The services we offer allow you to be more productive and cost-efficient by allowing you to concentrate on what matters most—your business. What is included with my monthly
subscription to STARLIMS Cloud Services? STARLIMS Cloud Services Includes:
• A public or private cloud offering • All software licensing
• Application(s) high availability
• Development, test, validation, and/ or production application environments • Infrastructure maintenance including
installation, patch management, malware protection, system monitoring,
notifications, etc.
• Database maintenance, backup, and retention services
• HIPAA compliance for regulated customers
What types of cloud offerings does
STARLIMS Cloud Services offer?
STARLIMS offers best-of-class Cloud
environments, whether Public or Private, to complement your business’ Cloud Strategy. With the STARLIMS Public Cloud, customers can access their STARLIMS environment directly via the Internet. With the STARLIMS Private Cloud, customers can access their
Who maintains the infrastructure in the
cloud environment?
The STARLIMS Cloud Services team is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure of your cloud environment. The customer is responsible for maintaining the STARLIMS application (security, configuration, and so on). Optionally, STARLIMS Cloud Services can maintain and configure your STARLIMS application.
We need multiple STARLIMS
environments. Is that possible with
STARLIMS Cloud Services?
STARLIMS offers Cloud Services for multiple environments such as development, testing, validation, training, and production. The
STARLIMS Cloud Services Team can speed up any combination of development, testing, training, or production environments upon demand. STARLIMS Cloud Services can tailor a cloud environment to meet your requirements.
Does STARLIMS Cloud Services offer a
HIPAA compliant solution?
STARLIMS offers a HIPAA compliant cloud service that meets HIPAA regulatory requirements. In addition, data is encrypted whether in transit or at rest.
Who monitors system performance?
The STARLIMS Cloud Services team is responsible for the STARLIMS Cloud infrastructure
application’s performance and database monitoring. We will respond and resolve
performance issues in a timely manner to ensure that your system is optimized and tuned.
How long is my data backed up?
Normally, a minimum of 30 days of data shall be backed up. Depending on the customer’s requirements, we can adjust data retention policies as needed. HIPAA customers will have data backed up and retained for a minimum of six years to meet regulatory requirements.
How can we interface to our ERP,
financial systems, and other external
applications?
The third-party software interfacing is
accomplished the same way as for on-premises deployments.
Are STARLIMS Professional
Services still able to assist with our
deployment?
Yes, as with on-premises deployments, STARLIMS can provide as much assistance as you require.
Our company is growing rapidly, how
difficult is it to increase our user and
computing resource (CPU, Memory,
and Storage) needs to accommodate
those changes?
We can easily modify your user subscription and computing resource (CPU, Memory, and Storage) needs to match your business growth so that users are continually provided with an optimized environment.
Does your company provide
mechanisms for ensuring secure data
transfers between our company and
your organization?
STARLIMS is a web- based application that utilizes application and database servers hosted in a secure data center. This allows users to securely connect by utilizing internet access. All data is hosted in a secure cloud based infrastructure and is delivered, managed, and accessed via the STARLIMS application. Data in-transit is secured with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and, upon request, data at rest can be secured further with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).
I already have STARLIMS installed; can
I move to STARLIMS Cloud Services?
Both new customers and current STARLIMS customers can utilize STARLIMS Cloud Services.
STARLIMS Corporation
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STARLIMS develops data management solutions as smart as the lab professionals who use them. We are the global leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems, but not just because of our seamless Unified Platform and advanced mobile capabilities.
We are the leader because our vision as a company is to make everything — our technology, our support and, ultimately, all labs — smarter. STARLIMS continues to deliver the kind of thinking that supports productivity, profitability, and people.
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