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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 Flaherty on August 17, 2011
Part II of a 3-part series – Mike Flaherty of Online Tech describes how to create local high availability in the cloud, virtualization and redundancy. Included is an overview of the components of a fully managed private cloud architecture.
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, high availability, managed private cloud, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting |
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 Online Tech on November 17, 2009
How many 9s do you need? What is High Availability? High Availability is a term used to describe the procedures, infrastructure, and system design to ensure a specified level of accessibility to your server. Accessibility requires both power and network connectivity as well as a functional server. If one or all of these requirements are [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged disaster recovery, disaster recovery strategy, high availability, it disaster recovery, san replication |
By Mike Klein on September 16, 2009
Business-class data centers can cost from $1000 to $1500 per square foot to construct, equating to 10 – 20 year investments. This means that significant capital investments are required to provide and maintain space, power, cooling and network functionality in a way that is cost-effective for SaaS companies to take advantage of. At the server [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged dedicated server, dedicated servers, e-Tip, high availability, managed dedicated server, managed dedicated servers, managed server, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Online Tech on February 2, 2009
ICM – Partner of Online Tech Question 1) Can you tell us about your client experience with Online Tech? We currently have 4 dedicated servers with Online Tech. We upgraded in 2009 to Online Tech’s High Availability Power Services. We also use the managed backup and network storage. As our business continues to grow, we’ll [...]
Posted in Managed Servers | Tagged dedicated server, dedicated servers, high availability, Inner Circle Media, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Online Tech on June 13, 2008
Online Technologies Provides the Environment, Security, Power, and Network to Ensure Always On, Always Online, and Always Secure There’s certainly plenty to consider when developing a plan for you business’ data storage and disaster recovery. Building your own data center can be costly. Not storing your equipment in a safe, secure, and climate-controlled environment can [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged colocation, data center enviroment, data center security, disaster recovery, high availability, michigan data center, michigan data centers, network service |
By Online Tech on June 4, 2008
Data Center Rack Design Provides Redundancy for Always-on Power and Always-connected Internet When businesses depend on the Internet to generate revenue and maximize profits, it is highly important their computers are always on and always connected to the Internet. Simply put, these are today’s uptime standards. That is the benefit of Online Tech’s High Availability [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation | Tagged high availability, michigan data center, rack and stack, rack design |
By Online Tech on May 23, 2008
New Site Provides Colocation and Dedicated Servers for Small and Mid-sized Businesses ANN ARBOR, MI — Online Tech announces the opening of its newest data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 10,500 square foot data center is located in Avis Farms, a technology park south of Ann Arbor. The Avis Data Center will house its [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News | Tagged Avis Data Center, Cisco network architecture, colocation, dedicated server, dedicated servers, disaster recovery, high availability, michigan data center |
By Online Tech on December 18, 2006
A summary of challenges to high availability in your database High availability implies little to no downtime. Downtime results from security breaches, lack of scalability or failure (hardware or software). To achieve high availability you must manage all three characteristics for each layer in the Internet Delivery Stack. One area of real challenge to this [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation | Tagged high availability, Internet Delivery Stack |
