February 2010
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Guest Blog: Hosted Business Intelligence – Get in the Game
Stu Silberman, head of Marketing and Sales for Dataspace, discusses the benefits of hosting for business intelligence applications. Ready for two of my favorite business mantras? 1. “Don’t buy anything you can lease. Don’t lease anything you can borrow. Don’t borrow anything you can liberate…” These words from a business school professor many years ago [...]
Operational Excellence in Managed Data Centers
The value proposition for a managed data center is actually pretty simple: 1) You can save money compared to operating your own data center. Whether through basic colocation (where we provide the data center infrastructure and you manage your own servers), through managed colocation (we manage our your servers in our data center), or managed [...]
How Social Media Has Helped Online Tech Improve Server Hosting Customer Service
Sometimes it seems so obvious after the fact. That’s the case when we started using social media tools to improve customer support in our managed data center business. Online Tech is fairly active in the social media world when it comes to marketing our managed servers and colocation products to make sure the world knows [...]
Guide to Becoming PCI Compliant: A Historical Perspective and Introduction
Online Tech brings you a new series on PCI Compliance by Adam Goslin, Co-Founder of High Bit Security, a full service security company specializing in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Compliance and Penetration Testing. PCI compliance is important for all of our clients who hold and handle credit card information. The series will explain [...]
Diagnose your Network Problems Quickly, Troubleshoot with Nmap
Troubleshooting is often a long road filled with many turns that could lead you down the wrong path, further away from a resolution. It is quite frustrating to spend several hours on a single issue that in the end turns out to have a simpler solution that could have been discovered earlier if the proper [...]
Aging Data Center: Time to Remodel or Outsource?
By Online Tech on February 25, 2010
The recent economic downturn has put tremendous pressure on data center operators, as it has on most everyone else, to cut costs and avoid expenses wherever possible. Despite the economic turmoil, however, demand for data storage space and computing power has not diminished. As a result, companies have been faced with an increasingly difficult decision: [...]
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