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By Mike Klein on January 25, 2012
HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act focuses on three key criteria for handling Protected Health Information (PHI): availability, confidentiality and integrity. This blog post focuses on availability as it applies to HIPAA applications and HIPAA data. Availability means that PHI is always available, accessible and never lost. When a patient arrives at [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud disaster recovery, disaster recovery, high availability, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, it disaster recovery, managed cloud, offsite backup
By Mike Klein on January 25, 2012
To Our Valued Clients: Each quarter I like to share with our clients the major initiatives we’re undertaking at Online Tech, and a look at what is in store for the near future. Last year, we grew over 26%, added a new data center, and invested in a number of improvements to our data centers [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged Ann Arbor data center, disaster recovery in the cloud, hipaa compliant cloud, HIPAA compliant hosting, managed cloud computing, mid-michigan data center, pci compliant hosting, private cloud computing, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, sox compliant hosting, ssae 16 |
By Mike Klein on January 2, 2012
Would you pay $999 per hour for a cloud server? Apparently, Amazon’s EC2 cloud servers spiked to $999.99 per hour when their supply was recently constrained. The high bidder paid close to $1000 per hour and others got bumped off of their servers. One month’s use of the server at this price would cost a [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon ec2 cloud, amazon server prices, amazon spot pricing, amazon web services, aws, Cloud Computing, cloud servers, high availability clouds |
By Mike Klein on November 2, 2011
I’m looking forward to attending the IMN (Information Management Network) conference next week in Los Angeles, California to join the discussion on the growing demand for data centers and colocation, as well as the threats and opportunities that cloud computing brings to the market. The 2011 IMN conference “Fall Forum on Financing, Investing & Real [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, data center market, IMN, secondary markets, tier 1 market |
By Mike Klein on November 2, 2011
A decade ago, companies like SunGard grew very quickly by selling a solution most of us would call “cold site disaster recovery.” In essence, SunGard compiled a number of physical servers and compute capabilities, then leased these servers to many companies to be used in case of a disaster on a first-come, first-served basis. SunGard [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud computing disaster recovery, cloud disaster recovery, cloud RTO, cold site disaster recovery, disaster recovery cloud, disaster recovery in the cloud, disaster recovery times, recovery time objectives, RTO, SAN storage, tape backup, tapeless backup |
By Mike Klein on October 28, 2011
I’ve written several blog posts on how cloud computing changes disaster recovery. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it makes disaster recovery more cost-effective and lowers the bar for deploying comprehensive DR plans across a company’s entire IT infrastructure. Cloud computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud disaster recovery, cloud-based disaster recovery, it disaster recovery, network replication, server replication |
By Mike Klein on October 19, 2011
TMCnet.com inteviews Mike Klein, COO of Online Tech, about his presentation at MSPWorld’s 2011 ITEEXPO in Austin, TX, as well as about the emerging trends of cloud computing in the market. Three key focuses include: Mission critical applications and the need for high availability cloud computing; How disaster recovery changes significantly in the cloud computing [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Data Storage | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud computing interview, disaster recovery, high availability cloud computing, online tech interview |
By Mike Klein on September 22, 2011
Something we’ve seen for a while at Online Tech is the rapidly progressing movement of small and mid-size businesses to outsource their data centers. Last week, the WSJ highlighted the growing adoption of outsourced data centers by small and mid-size businesses to colocation and cloud computing. The WSJ points out that colocation services have been [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, Mike Klein |
By Mike Klein on July 28, 2011
There are a lot of benefits with cloud computing – cost-effective resource use, rapid provisioning, scalability and elasticity. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it changes disaster recovery, making it more cost-effective and lowering the bar for enterprises to deploy comprehensive DR plans for their entire IT infrastructure. Cloud Computing [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, disaster recovery, private cloud computing |
By Mike Klein on June 22, 2011
I recently gave a talk on the key trends in cloud computing and to set the stage, I was asked to describe the spectrum of cloud computing options from private cloud computing to public cloud hosting. Here is a snapshot of one slide I used to describe this spectrum of cloud computing. On one end [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, hybrid cloud computing, managed cloud hosting, private cloud, private cloud computing, Public Cloud, public cloud computing, public cloud versus private cloud |
