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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 October 19, 2010
The private cloud can simplify the process of migrating client-server applications to SaaS. Once the hardware platform is in place, a new virtual server instance can be spun up for each new customer quickly and for minimal incremental costs. Migrating client-server solutions to the private cloud removes the risk of rewriting code to a multi-tenant application from the critical path and delivers the same end user experience as in the client-server model.
Posted in Cloud Computing, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Mike Klein, private cloud, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
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 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 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 October 6, 2009
Announced today, uRefer, the leading referral marketing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, has signed an agreement with Online Tech to host their SaaS referral platform in Online Tech’s SAS-70 certified data centers. Posted on uRefer’s company blog earlier in the week, uRefer had this to say about the new partnership, “Online Technologies is an Ann Arbor-based company [...]
Posted in Online Tech News, SaaS Hosting | Tagged disaster recovery, Online Tech, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service, uRefer |
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 |
By Mike Klein on September 25, 2009
Nothing is more frustrating as a SaaS company than getting little to no information about a service issue from your hosting provider. The SaaS best hosting providers have a genuine and very visible culture of service that prevents this from happening to their clients. Expect to see systems such as port-level network monitoring plus automated [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged change management, customer service, e-Tip, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service, support |
By Mike Klein on September 22, 2009
We just published a new e-Tips white paper on the Seven Essential Questions SaaS Companies Should Ask Their Hosting Providers before selecting a partner. Beyond these seven questions, what questions do you consider essential in selecting your SaaS Hosting partner?
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged e-Tip, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
