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By Thu Pham on October 12, 2011
When it comes to conducting a cost-benefit analysis of hosting your servers with a third party versus maintaining your own servers, take note that benefits lie primarily in security, support, reliability and scalability. Leaving IT up to the experts can save you time and money better spent on growing your business. Security - Quality data centers [...]
Posted in Managed Servers | Tagged fully managed dedicated servers, fully managed servers, managed dedicated servers, managed servers, server hosting |
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 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 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 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 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 October 26, 2009
Managed IT can mean different things to different people. Many prefer to differentiate 2 separate options – managed dedicated servers OR colocation. I prefer to think of Managed IT as a spectrum of options. On one end of the spectrum is raw colocation - where the client gets power, network, and rack space – and [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, dedicated server, dedicated servers, managed data center, managed dedicated server, managed dedicated servers, Managed IT, managed server, managed servers |
By Online Tech on September 22, 2009
Announced Yesterday, Online Tech was awarded top position in Top10DedicatedHosting.com’s Top Dedicated Server Awards: Online Tech is a premier Managed Data Center Operator in the Midwestern United States with 15 years of expertise delivering outstanding products and service levels. Online Tech, offers full range of managed colocation, dedicated server hosting and managed servers for clients [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, colocation hosting, dedicated server, dedicated server host, managed data center, managed server, managed servers, Michigan Colocation, SAS 70 |
