By Yan Ness on January 23, 2012
Video, music, classified ads, newspapers, magazines, pictures – all forms of media have been dramatically transformed by their digitization. iTunes, Amazon and all of their various devices have enabled a new business model that created fantastic wealth at the expense of old-guard leaders. This digital transformation was an onslaught that decimated local newspapers, record stores, [...]
Posted in Information Technology Tips, Managed Servers | Tagged IT industry news, mass digitization, server virtualization, virtual servers, virtualization |
By Yan Ness on December 12, 2011
Because it’s worth it. It’s the one that really helps an executive sleep at night. We’ve done HIPAA, SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 1/SOC 3 audits, but PCI DSS does the deepest dive, by far. PCI includes source code reviews, requires custom penetration testing and well-documented procedures, policies and change management processes. PCI is also [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged pci compliance pricing, pci compliant environment, pci compliant hosting, pci compliant technology, PCI DSS compliance, pci pentration testing, web access firewall |
By Yan Ness on December 12, 2011
We’ve completed a number of audits over the years. Each audit results in a report such as HIPAA, SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 1/SOC 3 and PCI. It’s extremely expensive to do these audits well. The obvious costs are the auditors, but you can’t overlook the staff time and technology. We estimate it takes a few hundred hours [...]
Posted in Online Tech News, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged data center audits, data centers, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, michigan data centers, midwest data centers, pci compliant hosting, PCI hosting, SAS 70, SOC 1, SOC 3, ssae 16 |
By Yan Ness on January 26, 2011
I have to share this experience as the manager of OTPortal, a SaaS hosted application: We have a virtual server in our private cloud that hosts both the production and test sites for OTPortal. We needed to put the test version on a separate virtual server so that we could do more thorough testing without [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, private cloud, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, saas development |
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 Yan Ness on July 13, 2010
I recently came across a very interesting question at ITToolbox.com which inquired: As larger data centers continue build outs, they begin to pose a major risk due to sheer size. It’s also becoming more apparent that a smaller distributed infrastructure is more favored among IT professionals. An April 2nd 2009 FBI raid on a Texas [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged managed data center, outsourced data center services |
By Yan Ness on June 30, 2010
A private cloud computing platform is a stack of network, server and storage hardware dedicated to you for the purpose of cloud computing. With a managed cloud computing service, the stack of hardware becomes a customizable cloud of computing and storage resources for you to configure as you wish. Why is this ability to configure [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, dedicated server, private cloud, virtualization |
By Yan Ness on May 11, 2010
Quite frankly, we want to be the best so I work hard to find the best way to measure and benchmark ourselves against others in our industry. Currently I’m zeroed in on a few very high level metrics. I’ll share those and I’d be curious as to what you think and what measures you use. [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged data center business, managed data center, measuring success |
By Yan Ness on March 18, 2010
Hi, my name is Yan Ness and I am the CEO of Online Tech. In my experience and talking with other companies, I have found that many employees complain about service levels from their internal IT department. I believe the reason for this is simply that delivering world-class data center services is really difficult, even [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged company culture, managed data center, MSP service, transparency |
By Yan Ness on January 11, 2010
CEO of Online Tech, Yan Ness, shows how colocation can lead to widespread adoption of the Cloud. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a type of shared computing where one utilizes a hosting provider’s large-scale computing infrastructure. In other words, a provider with thousands of servers interlinked together, will rent out their massive computing [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed data center, private cloud, SLA, Software-as-a-Service, Trust in Cloud Computing |
