Security and Reliability for Cloud-Based Startup ZenVault Medical®

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USE CASE

MEDICAL“There could be no ZenVault Medical without ZeroDown Software. The cloud gives us flexibility,expandability, and low cost, and ZeroDown adds application uptime and data security. As abusiness, ZenVault Medical can’t survive without that reliability.” Josephine Zhao - Lead Developer and Co-Founder, ZenVault, Inc.
Delivering on the Promise ofthe Cloud

Reference Implementation:ZenVault® Medical

ZeroDown Software - BusinessContinuity as a Service™ [BCAAS]

The cloud promises lower costs, high availability,and better security. Yet deployment risks,migration risks, and doubts about cloud
reliability are hindering its adoption. Business
managers are concerned about the safetyof their mission-critical processes,applications, and data.

ZenVault Medical is a Personal Health Records(PHR) portal that allows consumers to manage
their complete personal healthcare record
online. Its success depends upon availability
and security.

ZeroDown Software made ZenVault possible
because it redefines how a high-demandbusiness can be launched and operated safely
and efficiently in the cloud. For the first time,
all the required factors came together in one
cloud-enabling offering: safe and easy migration, dependable uptime, high performance,strong security, plus low cost and flexibility.

ZeroDown Software, Inc. virtually eliminates
the risks of migrating to the cloud. It uses
patented Always Available™ technology toprotect applications and data hosted on
multiple cloud instances from downtime.
ZeroDown Software enables one or more
cloud instances to establish reliability
quickly, each simultaneously processing thesame transactions and hosting the same
applications in multiple zones. ZeroDownSoftware can bring application availability
in the cloud up to virtually 100%.

ZenVault Medical was conceived as a nextgeneration portal, capable of scaling, managing,and adding customers at a price point lower
than the competition. Use of the cloud is vitalto the business model, since no other hosting
paradigm offers the flexibility and low costrequired. But development of the portal waspostponed due to doubts about cloud reliability,availability, and safety. The ZeroDown Software
helped eliminate these doubts.

Since launch, the Amazon Cloud on which
ZenVault Medical is hosted has experienced
several notable downtime events, but ZenVault
has not experienced any outages as a result.

Benefits of ZeroDown Software:> Reduced risk when deploying business-critical applications to the cloud> Safe and easy migration to the cloud> Significantly greater cloud reliability

ZeroDown Software offers
Easy, Methodical, and Safe
Cloud Migration

Performance Benefitsand Effects

Economic Benefits
Maintaining continuity within ZenVault’s core

The overall benefit of ZeroDown Software andportal application and databases maintains

ZenVault® used a development sandbox hosted

its Always Available™ technology is the virtual

the existing cost structure and revenue stream.

on an Amazon EC2 cloud. Upon completion,elimination of application downtime. If one

the Primary instance was launched internallynode, server, or application instance goeswithin an Always Available™ array on virtualoffline, the others continue to process.

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During Cloud Migration

facility.

There was no one-time, do-or-die switch toZenVault was rolled out to the public in

the cloud, where problems with application

September 2010. Following the businessstartup or integration could have knocked theplan, the Primary was copied and migrated

portal offline. The Primary continued to function

to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Cloud migrationas always during the entire process.

>utilizing the ZeroDown Software product toDuring Maintenance and Upgradesbuild first one cloud node and then another.

ZenVault Medical has gone through many

The Primary continued in operation at themaintenance, repair, and upgrade cycles

colocation facility.

without ever having to take the service offline.
Always Available™ enables any application orThe first cloud node was created on Amazon

machine to simply be taken out of the array

EC2 East, tested, and brought online once it

for maintenance or upgrade, and be reinstated

was proven to be stable. The process was thenonce it is ready.

Enables on-time payment processing.
Costs less than other less effective
solutions.

>Protects the reputation of the company,
helping to build future business.

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took place in pre-planned, methodical stages,

Prevents interruptions to customer
sessions, registration, and inquiries.

Reduces recurring costs for backups,
emergency recovery, unnecessary failoversystems, and more.

>Maintains and increases shareholder value.

How Your Cloud-Based Businesscan be Always Available
ZeroDown Software removes the uncertainty

repeated on Amazon EC2 West. ZeroDown

from hosting critical applications in theSoftware provides parallel processing between

During a Disasterthe two cloud instances and the Primary. If

The same paradigm enables ZenVault Medical

one instance goes offline, the other two simply

to maintain full uptime, even during disasters

continue processing with no interruption tosuch as hardware failure, software failure,

the user experience.

earthquakes, fires, storms, and cloud outages.

cloud. It breaks away from traditional
cloud migration and disaster recovery byempowering cloud users with a new business
continuity standard: virtually 100% uptime,anytime, all the time.

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Contact ZeroDown Software today for more information about how it provides an entirely newlevel of reliability, security, and ROI to cloud-based businesses.
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