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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 Thu Pham on October 12, 2011
When it comes to conducting a cost-benefit analysis of hosting your servers with a third party versus maintaining your own servers, take note that benefits lie primarily in security, support, reliability and scalability. Leaving IT up to the experts can save you time and money better spent on growing your business. Security - Quality data centers [...]
Posted in Managed Servers | Tagged fully managed dedicated servers, fully managed servers, managed dedicated servers, managed servers, server hosting |
By Online Tech on October 26, 2010
As SaaS providers decide between running the servers internally or outsourcing some or all of the server management, they have a number of hosting options available – ranging from basic colocation to managed servers to cloud solutions.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Managed Servers, Michigan Colocation, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed dedicated servers, managed server, managed servers, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
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 Stu Silberman on February 25, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, SaaS Hosting | Tagged hosted business intelligence, managed server, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Mike Klein on February 21, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News | Tagged accountability, colocation, dedicated server, dedicated servers, managed data center, managed dedicated server, managed dedicated servers, managed server, metrics, Michigan colocation, michigan data center, Mike Klein, operational excellence |
By Mike Kroon on January 28, 2010
As the Business Development Manager, I’ve enjoyed educating people from around the world about how to purchase Managed Dedicated servers through our live chat service through WhosOn. The reason I enjoy using this service is that we are just having a chat about a client’s company and their needs. These chats can be fast and [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, Online Tech News | Tagged dedicated server, dedicated servers, live chat, managed dedicated server, managed dedicated servers, WhosOn |
By Mike Flaherty on January 22, 2010
I was reading an article by Penny Crosman in the “Wall Street & Technology Reports” January 2009 edition about monitoring servers in a remote data center and it provoked a few thoughts on the importance of monitoring of servers remotely. The article discusses the need for in-depth monitoring tools, monitoring dashboards, and skilled engineers capable [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, Michigan Colocation | Tagged colocation, dedicated server, dedicated servers, downtime, managed dedicated server, OTMonitor, server monitoring |
By Ryan Gunther on January 21, 2010
Here is Online Tech’s quick tips on how to setup a proper firewall rule set: Limit your server management ports (RDP: 3389 and SSH: 22) to your office subnet or a VPN connection. The first and easiest way for someone to hack your managed dedicated server is for them to be able to RDP or [...]
Posted in Managed Servers | Tagged data security, firewall rule, managed dedicated servers, server management |
By Ritu Parr on January 9, 2010
Can managed services save my business? Yan Ness, CEO of Online Tech was one of four executives called upon to answer this question at an Automation Alley event this past Thursday, January 7, 2010. He was joined by: Brent Yax, CEO of Awecomm Technologies, LLC, Matt Henry, Account Manager of High Performance Systems, Inc. and [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, Online Tech News | Tagged Cap-Ex Free IT, colocation, data center, dedicated server, Internet Delivery Stack, managed services, Yan Ness |
