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By Mike Klein on February 9, 2010
Sometimes it seems so obvious after the fact. That’s the case when we started using social media tools to improve customer support in our managed data center business. Online Tech is fairly active in the social media world when it comes to marketing our managed servers and colocation products to make sure the world knows [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, customer service, dedicated server, IT operations, managed data center, managed server, managed servers, michigan data centers, Mike Klein, OTMonitor, OTPortal, server monitoring |
By Bill Ryan on January 16, 2010
One of the big takeaways from the cloud computing hype over the last year is that everyone wants to do more with less. Keeping your IT infrastructure in-house no longer makes sense from a cost perspective. The cloud computing media coverage certainly has emphasized this. One of the main advantages of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) companies, like [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged Cap-Ex Free IT, Cloud Computing, IT budget, IT operations, Software-as-a-Service |
By Online Tech on May 14, 2009
How to managed IT demands efficiently As the demands on IT increase, managing the expertise and resources required to support the entire IT delivery stack is becoming more difficult and more expensive for many mid-size firms. Many firms are finding that colocation offers an attractive alternative – outsourcing the data center infrastructure to experts that [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged colocation, IT operations, Michigan Colocation |
By Online Tech on May 11, 2009
Online Tech and UHY team up for a repeat performance on How to Survive a SAS-70 Audit You Don’t Need to Fight the SAS-70 Audit Online Tech & UHY have partnered for a seminar for CIOs and IT Directors of publicly held companies or firms servicing publicly held companies on how to survive a SAS-70 [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged colocation, dedicated server, IT operations, SAS 70 |
By Online Tech on April 16, 2009
Crain’s Detroit Business Coverage of Online Tech’s Growth Through the Current Economic Downturn By Tom Henderson, April 5, 2009; Reprinted from Crains Detroit Business Online Tech Inc., an Ann Arbor-based provider of data storage and file backup for disaster recovery, sees the current economic downturn as an opportunity to continue growing its business at a [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, Crain's Detroit, disaster recovery, IT operations, Mike Klein, Software-as-a-Service, Yan Ness |
By Online Tech on March 17, 2009
Odds of data center disruptions increase as budgets get cut AFCOM (The Association for Computer Operations Management) found that nearly half of the data center managers they surveyed expected cutbacks and believed that disruptions were possible because of the cost-cutting and reduced investments in security, reports ComputerWorld. Data center managers are worried that the recession [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged AFCOM, IT budget, IT operations, managed data center |
By Online Tech on March 15, 2009
Data Center Predictions Updated to Reflect Impact of Today’s Economy This year’s bi-annual AFCOM Data Center World® 2009 at the Paris Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas brought together approximately 800 data center professionals under one roof to share insights, educate one another, showcase new technologies and talk about the things that really matter [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged AFCOM, data center predictions, IT operations, virtualization |
By Online Tech on February 24, 2009
Gartner Says 50 Percent of Data Centers Will Have Insufficient Power and Cooling Capacity by 2008 STAMFORD, Conn., November 29, 2006 — Organizations are increasingly deploying more computing power, but, by 2008, 50 percent of current data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment, according to Gartner, [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged data center capacity, Gartner, IT operations |
By Online Tech on February 12, 2009
Online Tech exemplifies Growth of Data Center Industry in Michigan Michigan Business Review (see link to original article below) Reprinted article by Sven Gustafson Related Coverage: Online Tech’s Yan Ness says Michigan is Cool. The trend toward outsourcing the hosting and management of business-critical IT functions is adding up to big business for Michigan companies [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers | Tagged IT operations, outsourcing IT, Yan Ness |
By Online Tech on February 11, 2009
Online Tech works with NEW to save costs on IT for nonprofits Linh Song, the Director of npServ at the NEW center, sat down with Online Tech to answer a few questions about how they are helping out Michigan Non-Profits. Question 1) Can you tell us about NEW and your npServ program? NEW (Nonprofit Enterprise [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, Michigan Data Centers | Tagged data security, dedicated server, dedicated server host, dedicated servers, IT operations, npServ |
