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By Bill Ryan on June 4, 2010
At the IDC Directions 2010 conference a few weeks ago there was a presentation entitled “The Maturing Cloud: What it will take to Win” Frank Gens explained that the most significant growth opportunities in the IT market will be in cloud computing and Software as a Service ( SaaS ) solutions. He contends that this [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, IDC Directions, Software-as-a-Service |
By Bill Ryan on May 28, 2010
In the 3/26/10 article on the “Practical Advice on Saas Marketing” blog there is a great reference and comparison to how cars were built at the Ford Motor River Rouge complex and the evolution of application software development. Strange as that may seem, the article goes on to suggest that software development is on a [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service |
By Bill Ryan on May 13, 2010
In the 3/24/10 edition of the “Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report” an article was written about Healthmaster Holdings LLC. Healthmaster Holding LLC is a company that provides electronic medical record software and Medicaid billing for schools. A quote from the article says, “The move to SaaS provides key advantages to school districts such as [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged SaaS service model, Software-as-a-Service |
By Bill Ryan on May 7, 2010
In the January 10, 2010 INFORMATION WEEK article written by Michael Biddick titled “Why you need a SaaS strategy” he writes, “Three-fourths of companies using SaaS consider application services extremely or critically important to their organizations, according to our InformationWeek Analytics survey of 281 business technologists, including 131 who now use SaaS. About one-third describe [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged mission critical saas, saas strategy, Software-as-a-Service |
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 Chris Rizzo on January 29, 2010
Recently, I was reading a great article by Joel York over at his SaaS Blog, Chaotic Flow. In his article, “SaaS Marketing Tips – The Truth Shall Set You Free“, he explains the critical difference in the sales process between selling traditional software and Software-as-a-Service: transparency or lack there of, on behalf of the software [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged business ethics, Chaotic Flow, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Online Tech, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, transparency |
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 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 Yan Ness on January 11, 2010
CEO of Online Tech, Yan Ness, shows how colocation can lead to widespread adoption of the Cloud. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a type of shared computing where one utilizes a hosting provider’s large-scale computing infrastructure. In other words, a provider with thousands of servers interlinked together, will rent out their massive computing [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed data center, private cloud, SLA, Software-as-a-Service, Trust in Cloud Computing |
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 |
