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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 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 Bill Ryan on June 7, 2010
While reading an article in the March 22nd edition of NETWORKWORLD by Jon Brodkin entitled “DEMO start-ups for the cloud”, I made note of a particularly interesting quote by Jeff Crown, president of DEMO, presenter at VenueGen, that “ this is a tough time for start-ups looking raise venture capital.” Venture capitalists are looking for [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, entreprenuer, managed server, startup, virtualization |
By Adam Goslin on April 29, 2010
This is the second in the series on PCI Compliance by guest blogger Adam Goslin, an experienced consultant that assists companies with achieving and maintaining PCI Compliance. PCI compliant hosting is important for all of our clients who hold and handle credit card information. The series explains the six objectives of PCI DSS, what to [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged Adam Goslin, managed server, managed servers, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, PCI compliance, pci compliant hosting |
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 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 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 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 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 |
