By Adam Goslin on December 6, 2010
Online Tech brings you a new blog on PCI Compliance by Adam Goslin, Co-Founder of High Bit Security, a full service security company specializing in attainment or ongoing maintenance of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) Compliance and Penetration Testing. PCI compliant hosting is important for all of our clients who hold and handle [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged PCI compliance, pci compliant hosting, PCI DSS, private cloud |
By Online Tech on December 5, 2010
Michigan Colocation has the advantage that Michigan has the lowest incidence of natural disasters in the entire continental U.S.
Posted in Michigan Colocation | Tagged michigan, Michigan colo, Michigan colocation, michigan data center |
By Yan Ness on December 3, 2010
How I found out I wanted “Predictably Priced Elastic Computing” We have a really important web application that gets a fairly unpredictable flow of traffic from multiple sources including users. I wanted to know what it would cost to host this application “in the cloud.” I thought it would be really easy to buy a [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon ec3, elastic computing, microsoft azure, private cloud, Public Cloud, virtualization |
By Bill Ryan on November 30, 2010
In the Information week , August 9th Edition there is an article “Define the Cloud, Then try to tame it.” It references the DMTF, a standards body formerly known as the distributed management task force. They are trying to cut through the jumble of cloud computing terms and hope to write a public set of API’s that [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged api, Cloud Computing, dmtf, information week |
By Mike Klein on November 2, 2010
There is an interesting trade-off in value add and risk management as you move up the SaaS Delivery Stack. The higher layers represent the majority of the value add for most SaaS providers.
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed data center, managed server, managed servers, Michigan colocation, private cloud, SaaS, SaaS Delivery Stack, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Online Tech on October 26, 2010
As SaaS providers decide between running the servers internally or outsourcing some or all of the server management, they have a number of hosting options available – ranging from basic colocation to managed servers to cloud solutions.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Managed Servers, Michigan Colocation, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed dedicated servers, managed server, managed servers, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Mike Klein on October 21, 2010
The end user experience is the result of how the SaaS delivery stack is implemented. Key factors include usability, security, uptime, scalability, extensibility and response times.
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged SaaS, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Mike Klein on October 19, 2010
The private cloud can simplify the process of migrating client-server applications to SaaS. Once the hardware platform is in place, a new virtual server instance can be spun up for each new customer quickly and for minimal incremental costs. Migrating client-server solutions to the private cloud removes the risk of rewriting code to a multi-tenant application from the critical path and delivers the same end user experience as in the client-server model.
Posted in Cloud Computing, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Mike Klein, private cloud, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Bill Ryan on October 14, 2010
I recently attended the inaugural meeting of the 7 x 24 Exchange group held in Southfield on September 14th. The topic of this initial seminar was “Come learn about Containerized Data Centers and Packaged Infrastructure”. The presentation was given by HP and Active Power. The talk was centered around learning how containerized systems compare to [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged containerized data center, data center, data center enviroment, packaged infrastructure |
By April Sage on October 8, 2010
While most company CEOs have focus and responsibilities elsewhere, it’s inevitable to think about the “what if” scenario involving IT failures. It would be reassuring to know that the basics of critical IT infrastructure are current and in place – just in case. Here are 5 simple questions that can give you a snapshot of [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery | Tagged data backup, data center disaster recovery, it disaster recovery, online backup |
