By Adam Goslin on August 30, 2010
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 compliant hosting is important for all of our clients who hold and handle credit card information. The series will [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged card holder data environment, encryption, PCI compliance, pci compliant hosting, PCI DSS, SSL |
By April Sage on August 26, 2010
As one of the most recent additions to Online Tech, the differences in company culture from previous businesses remain fresh and notable. Coming from an agency background with a perspective across many industries and business models, it’s not been easy in Michigan to share a lot of good news. Companies have lost budgets, workers have [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged company culture, customer service, metrics |
By Mike Klein on August 25, 2010
According to Tom Bittman, vice president at Gartner, IT managers are more concerned with security and privacy than they are with the next three public cloud problems combined. In a separate poll on public cloud computing versus private cloud computing, 75% of IT managers said that they will be deploying a private cloud strategy by [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, private cloud, private cloud computing, Public Cloud, public cloud versus private cloud, virtual private cloud |
By Bill Ryan on August 24, 2010
In the 5/3/10 InformationWeek article “Microsoft’s Cloud Plan: What’s In It For You?” by Chris Murphy, he says that Microsoft is all in. The article suggests they are actually trying to help people do what they really will need to do for the modern time. I guess if you are a complete Microsoft shop there [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Public Cloud |
By Mike Klein on August 20, 2010
Many low end dedicated servers on the market are desktop computers that are stacked on metal shelves or put on roll-able baker’s racks and sold as dedicated “servers”. At Online Tech, desktop computers aren’t what our clients are looking for in a managed dedicated server. Our clients need managed servers with 24×7 reliability to run [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Managed Servers, Online Data Storage | Tagged dedicated server, dedicated servers, hard drives, managed dedicated servers, managed server, managed servers, private cloud, private cloud servers |
By Ryan Gunther on August 17, 2010
A new series from Online Tech, “Chronicles of a Techie,” aims to show common problems facing IT technicians and how to solve them. This first edition focuses on firewall documentation. Techie A runs up to Techie B “Hey Techie A, our Boss Mr. Smith is upset. He just found out we have FTP opened up [...]
Posted in Information Technology Tips | Tagged firewall rule, managed firewall, open port, shared firewall |
By Mike Klein on August 12, 2010
According to Yankee Group’s recent survey on Cloud Computing, more enterprises are considering cloud computing a viable technology. Nearly 60 percent see the technology as an enabler, compared to just 37 percent a year ago. Even more interesting, the Yankee Group found that private cloud computing is preferred 2:1 over fully managed public cloud solutions. [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, private cloud, Public Cloud |
By Bill Ryan on August 10, 2010
In a recent ClickOnDetroit.com article entitled “Community Alert: 3,500 Without Power In Southfield” they explain how a simple outage can lead to the dreaded conclusion of “No word on when power will be restored.” It just continues to demonstrate that if you still have your production Information Technology equipment in an unprotected environment, you are [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged it disaster recovery, power grid, power outage, protected environment, risks for businesses |
By Noah Wolff on August 9, 2010
To extend a T1 from the wire wrap panel, connect your extend wiring as follows: Pin 1 – EMPTY (tracer lamp) Pin 2 – White/orange Pin 3 – orange Pin 4 – Blue Pin 5 – white/blue Tip is the ground side (positive) and Ring is the battery (negative) side of a phone circuit These [...]
Posted in Information Technology Tips | Tagged adc telecommunications panel, rj45, t1, wic card |
By Bill Ryan on August 5, 2010
In the April 19th edition of NETWORKWORLD there is an article entitled “Cloud Computing is the big story at Interop Las Vegas”. The article written by Brad Reed states ”Clearly cloud computing is a game changer and it’s one technology that we think people should know about”. We at Online Tech feel the same way. [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, private cloud, Public Cloud |
