By Online Tech on December 14, 2009
Looking for Detroit Colocation? For Detroit colocation, there is no better colocation data center than Online Tech’s Mid-Michigan data center – the largest colocation data center near Detroit, Michigan. The data center was originally built by EDS for General Motors. Online Tech took over the data center in 2006 to deliver colocation services to businesses [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Center | Tagged Detroit colocation, Detroit Data Center, Michigan colocation |
By Online Tech on December 9, 2009
With the recent passing of the new HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) act – an addition to pre-existing HIPAA rules and regulations – the stakes for data breaches to private health information are rising. With possible fines up to 1.5 million and mandatory public disclosure of the breach in some cases, [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged HIPAA compliance, HITECH act, MedHub Inc., SAS 70, sas 70 data center |
By Online Tech on December 7, 2009
A “SAS 70 audited” data center is a label used by many hosting companies to help show the value of their services but what does it really mean to be hosted in one? What is a SAS 70 audit and how does it differ from other audits? How are they conducted? Are all SAS 70 [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged colocation, GLBA compliance, HIPAA compliance, PCI compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, sas 70 data center |
By Online Tech on December 3, 2009
Online Tech announced today that it is shutting down its smallest data center located in downtown Ann Arbor . The center was its oldest of three data centers and no longer meets Online Tech’s high-end infrastructure standards. Current clients will be upgraded to Online Tech’s recently acquired, more efficient data center located in the Avis [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged Ann Arbor data center, colocation, dedicated server, managed dedicated server, Online Tech |
By Online Tech on December 1, 2009
A few months back, we wrote about the lessons learned from Rackspace’s second power outage and subsequent downtime. We learned that Rackspace does a nice job with transparency and controlling the message in the social media realm. We saw the full effect of that as we got blasted by unhappy fanatical rackers that have the [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged dedicated server, dedicated servers, downtime, Rackspace, uptime |
By Online Tech on November 30, 2009
Cyber Monday is undoubtedly one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. Originally sparked by at work high speed internet access, now more and more retailers are taking advantage of the buzz by offering “Cyber Monday Deals.” Even our clients are experiencing major bandwidth spikes—as much as 800% increases during today’s lunch hour! [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged bandwidth, cyber monday |
By Mike Klein on November 18, 2009
I was just describing what N+1 means for a data center to a team of new employees that joined Online Tech this week. The question came up – is an N+1 data center the best strategy for small & mid-size enterprises? The answer is “it depends”. “N” is enough to do the job – enough [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, data center, high availability, managed data center, managed server, Mike Klein, N+1 data center, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Online Tech on November 17, 2009
Looking for a Detroit Data Center? There is no better Detroit data center than Online Tech’s Mid-Michigan data center – one of the the largest data centers near Detroit, Michigan delivering colocation, managed servers and managed private cloud hosting. Originally built by EDS, this Detroit Data Center was taken over by Online Tech in 2006 [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged Detroit colocation, Detroit Data Center |
By Online Tech on November 17, 2009
How many 9s do you need? What is High Availability? High Availability is a term used to describe the procedures, infrastructure, and system design to ensure a specified level of accessibility to your server. Accessibility requires both power and network connectivity as well as a functional server. If one or all of these requirements are [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged disaster recovery, disaster recovery strategy, high availability, it disaster recovery, san replication |
By Online Tech on November 10, 2009
For the fourth year in a row, Online Tech has won Ann Arbor SPARK’s FastTrack award. Announced last Friday night at AnnArbor.com Business Review’s “Deals of the Year” ceremony, Online Tech was among 14 fellow award winners who have showed and maintained outstanding business growth. Online Tech President Mike Klein, had this to say about [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged Ann Arbor SPARK, FastTrack, Online Tech |
