Tag: virtualization

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) with Virtualization

Kirk Larson is presenting at Online Tech’s Fall into IT seminar, Friday, September 14 at 12PM ET. He will present BYOD: From Concept to Reality, a case study of how the Children’s Hospital of Central California uses a virtual environment … Continue reading

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Online Tech Presents at Ann Arbor Virtualization Users Group Event

Online Tech will be speaking at the Ann Arbor Virtualization Users Group event April 19. Event topics include VMware via Command line – VMware SRM Lessons – Hyper-V Briefing. Online Tech Systems Administrator Chris Schmitt will speak at the event … Continue reading

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Mass Digitization Threatens the IT Industry

Video, music, classified ads, newspapers, magazines, pictures – all forms of media have been dramatically transformed by their digitization. iTunes, Amazon and all of their various devices have enabled a new business model that created fantastic wealth at the expense … Continue reading

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2012 Health IT Spending & Trends

The healthcare IT market is rapidly growing and expected to continue through 2016. Here’s a look at 2012 health IT spending trends and a review of 2011. Nearly 90 percent of healthcare IT decision-makers are planning significant investments in hardware, … Continue reading

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What’s Your 2012 IT Disaster Recovery Plan?

Do you think you’re ready for a disaster to hit in the upcoming year? Can your business survive the impact, and are you prepared to recover all of your applications and data quickly and accurately? Most businesses just don’t think … Continue reading

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Upcoming Cloud Computing and Disaster Recovery Events

Disaster recovery and backup are critical for businesses in the event of a disaster – risking data loss can severely impact your bottom line in addition to the survival of your company. But preparation can reduce costs, decrease recovery times … Continue reading

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2011 Cloud & IT Disaster Recovery Statistics

A recent survey conducted by the Aberdeen Group uncovered the IT disaster recovery trends of a range of companies using cloud computing for data storage, backup and recovery. Comparing cloud users and non-cloud users, they found that mid-sized companies ($50 … Continue reading

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Benefits of Cloud Computing (Virtualization) for IT Disaster Recovery

From faster recovery times to significant cost-savings and guaranteed backup, the benefits of  implementing cloud computing for both production and disaster recovery systems are worth deep consideration for any company running multiple, mission critical servers. Below is a cheat sheet … Continue reading

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Hosted Private Cloud Precautions

Deploying a Hosted Private Cloud is a popular way for companies to immediately see the benefits of Private Cloud computing while avoiding significant upfront costs of deploying the hardware and software resources in-house. Continue reading

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Amazon EC2 Confusing Price Model – How to Predict Computing Costs in the Public Cloud

How I found out I wanted “Predictably Priced Elastic Computing” We have a really important web application that gets a fairly unpredictable flow of traffic from multiple sources including users. I wanted to know what it would cost to host … Continue reading

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