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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 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 |
By Ritu Parr on January 13, 2010
Magic Coast, a long-time customer of Online Tech, is happy with their upgrade to our Avis Farms data center in Ann Arbor. Magic Coast provides live and on-demand video streaming technology backed by full production services. “We have been a customer of Online Technologies since first moving our headquarters to Ann Arbor, MI in 2006.” [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News, SaaS Hosting | Tagged data center, Magic Coast, Online Tech, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
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 |
By Mike Klein on November 18, 2009
I was just describing what N+1 means for a data center to a team of new employees that joined Online Tech this week. The question came up – is an N+1 data center the best strategy for small & mid-size enterprises? The answer is “it depends”. “N” is enough to do the job – enough [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, data center, high availability, managed data center, managed server, Mike Klein, N+1 data center, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Mike Klein on October 2, 2009
To some extent, managed dedicated servers hosted in an outsourced data center have now become a trusted data bank on which the SaaS business model depends. That explains why many SaaS providers are being required to achieve PCI compliance or HIPAA compliance, as well as periodic and detailed audits of their systems, such as a [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged data center, dedicated server, dedicated servers, e-Tip, HIPAA compliance, managed dedicated server, managed dedicated servers, PCI compliance, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, SAS 70, Software-as-a-Service |