By Bill Ryan on January 6, 2011
In a InformationWeek article “Google Puts A Mobile Spin On Cloud Security” , by Ericka Chickowski, she announces that two factor authentication is immediately available as an option for Google Apps Premier. She says that the service, costing $50.00/ month that most of the business customers use will be rolled out to standard users. The [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud security, google apps, key fobs, smart cards |
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 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 Bill Ryan on October 7, 2010
In David Linthicum’s article “Leveraging Cloud Computing for Business Continuity” in the Summer 2010 edition of Disaster Recovery Journal he argues that in many instances cloud computing is not a fit due to specialized requirement of the applications. He states that many enterprises deal with data that has special security requirements, such as PCI & HIPAA [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged HIPAA compliance, it disaster recovery, PCI compliance, private cloud computing |
By Bill Ryan on September 23, 2010
In the Summer 2010 edition of Disaster Recovery Journal an article “Leveraging Cloud Computing for Business Continuity” by David Linthicum speaks to the fact that DR for the cloud could become the next “killer app”. Leveraging cloud computing resources as a backup system is nothing new he states. But now, says David….we have a greater number [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged business continuity, Cloud Computing, disaster recovery, private cloud |
By Bill Ryan on September 7, 2010
In the 5/17/10 InformationWeek article “5 Steps To Smart SaaS Operations” by Michael Healy, the article speaks to the 5 SaaS pitfalls and how to avoid them. In the dollars and sense section of the article, he says, “if you think operating expenses are the TOP consideration, you think wrong.” In a survey of 393 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cap-Ex Free IT, Cloud Computing, cloud ROI, 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 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 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 |
By Bill Ryan on July 12, 2010
In the March 22nd edition of NETWORKWORLD there is an article entitled “10 hot tools for the data center”. The article suggests that by implementing this list of the 10 hot tools it will make life easier for the IT executives who are upgrading their data centers. One of these tools costs as much as [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged colocation, dedicated server, managed data center, return on investment |
