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By Thu Pham on January 16, 2012
To streamline IT service management and assets, the convergence of technology and processes to better meet business objectives is ideal. It also allows in-house IT teams to spend more time on other endeavors and projects for industry-specific, targeted business growth. A recent survey conducted by IDG Research Services found that more than half of IT [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged cloud compliance, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, colocation, it disaster recovery, managed cloud computing, managed cloud hosting, managed dedicated servers, managed hosting, offsite backup, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, remote server monitoring |
By Thu Pham on November 4, 2011
So your company is expanding and growing at a rapid rate, and the demand requires more space, power and cooling – what do you do? Build a new data center, or buy (lease, or outsource your IT needs to a different provider). Research firm Forrester conducted interviews of IT professionals to analyze the economics of [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged benefits of leasing data center, build data center, buy data center, capex, colocation, data centers, Michigan colocation, opex, outsource IT |
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 Thu Pham on October 5, 2011
DataCenterKnowledge.com recently released their 2011/2012 Data Center Market Insights report detailing the key trends driving data center market growth. Their methodology included a poll of over 200 data center professionals, including IT executives and facilities management in more than 13 different industries. A rising trend toward data center outsourcing is gaining momentum as 62 percent [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged 2011 data center market, Cloud Computing, colocation, data center outsourcing, managed servers, michigan data centers |
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 November 2, 2010
There is an interesting trade-off in value add and risk management as you move up the SaaS Delivery Stack. The higher layers represent the majority of the value add for most SaaS providers.
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed data center, managed server, managed servers, Michigan colocation, private cloud, SaaS, SaaS Delivery Stack, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
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 April Sage on September 17, 2010
When you’re choosing a place to colocate your servers, obvious factors like geographic location, redundancy level, and pricing are primary drivers. But don’t forget to ask about the services and features that can make the day-to-day reality of colocating your servers more effective and secure. Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged colocation, it disaster recovery, Michigan colocation, offsite backup, SAS 70, sas 70 data center, SAS70 Hosting, ssae 16 |
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 |
By Online Tech on February 25, 2010
The recent economic downturn has put tremendous pressure on data center operators, as it has on most everyone else, to cut costs and avoid expenses wherever possible. Despite the economic turmoil, however, demand for data storage space and computing power has not diminished. As a result, companies have been faced with an increasingly difficult decision: [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, data center, data center outsourcing, managed server, managed servers |
