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Article: 2012 Cloud Computing: Private Clouds Dominate |
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April 24 2012 - onlinetech.com
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Over 34 percent of IT budgets are spent on cloud computing solutions, according to recent article by Forbes.com and the IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing study conducted in January 2012.
Read more statistics from the study and an infographic explaining it all.
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Article: Upcoming Webinar: Cloud Computing for EHR/RCM Systems |
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March 07 2012 - www.onlinetech.com
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Mark your calendars for next Tuesday at 2 P.M. ET if you’re interested in healthcare IT, healthcare software, EHR/RCM systems and/or HIPAA compliance and cloud computing issues. Our free educational webinar featuring a discussion on cloud computing vs. traditional server-based EHR (electronic health records) and RCM (revenue cycle management) systems will strive to answer important questions about compliance, meaningful use and more.
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Article: The Road to the Private Cloud: How To Make The Transition |
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January 06 2012 - onlinetech.com
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The Private Cloud Challenge: Where to Start?
While the concept of the private cloud is new to the world of Information Technology, it is not uncommon for companies to now fully realize the benefits of moving off of traditional server infrastructure to one that provides the flexibility and redundancy of the private cloud.
However, even with the knowledge of how powerful this new technology is, IT executives often cannot see how their company could make the transition to this new infrastructure quickly or easily. To most this area of IT is uncharted waters and a project that is one huge step into the unknown.
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Article: What are the Benefits of Private Cloud Computing for Businesses? |
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January 03 2012 - onlinetech.com
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A private cloud computing platform is a stack of network, server and storage hardware dedicated to you for the purpose of cloud computing. When a managed cloud computing service is utilized, the stack of hardware becomes a customizable cloud of computing and storage resources that can be configured and re-configured when and as you wish.
Why is this ability to configure and re-configure your server resources with a private cloud computing platform so valuable? Here’s why.
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Article: Five Benefits of Managed Cloud Computing |
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January 01 2012 - onlinetech.com
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Sitting between secure, dedicated private cloud computing and open, low cost public cloud hosting is a secure, shared cloud middle ground we call managed cloud hosting.
Public cloud hosting is typically built around the “compute as a utility” model where cost is the driving consideration, overriding security and availability, to deliver commodity-level pricing where computing is sold at pennies per hour.
Managed cloud hosting sits on the other end of the spectrum in the shared cloud world. Like public cloud computing, servers can be purchased “by the slice”, or a virtual server at a time. However, the entire design premise for the managed cloud is to put security & high availability ahead of cost considerations. Rather than purchasing servers by the hour, managed cloud hosting is sold on monthly (or longer) contracts for businesses that are running enterprise critical applications for the long haul.
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Article: Risk Assessments to Achieve PCI Compliance in the Cloud |
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December 12 2011 - onlinetech.com
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One of the main concerns with cloud computing is security – when it comes to national industry security compliance standards such as PCI DSS or HIPAA, additional precautions must be taken in order to protect confidential data during transmission. While PCI compliance calls for very specific requirements to protect customer cardholder data, it is possible to remain compliant while using the cloud.
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Article: Six Steps to Transition to the Private Cloud |
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November 15 2011 - onlinetech.com
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When a company decides they want to transition to a private cloud, there are a few important steps they need to take to get started:
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Article: What’s Your 2012 IT Disaster Recovery Plan? |
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November 14 2011 - onlinetech.com
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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 it’ll happen to them – when in actuality, disasters happen more often than we think. A study by research firm Forrester dispels the myth that disaster declarations are rare occurrences with the statistic that 27 percent of companies had declared at least one disaster during the past five years, in a Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness Online Survey.
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Article: Study on Cloud Computing Security: Managing Firewall Risks |
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November 10 2011 - onlinetech.com
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A recent cloud computing security study conducted by the Poneman Institute and sponsored by Dome9 reveals that 67 percent of IT professionals claim their organization is left vulnerable to hackers due to lax cloud port and firewall security. Fifty-two percent of respondents rated their organization’s overall cloud server security management as fair (27 percent) or poor (25 percent).
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Article: Cold Site DR is Dead. Long Live Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery! |
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November 02 2011 - onlinetech.com
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With the increasing demands for 7x24 IT availability, recovery time requirements have dramatically shrunk over the last decade. While 10 years ago, a 3-5 day disaster recovery time was acceptable, most businesses are now demanding 1-4 hour recovery times given their heavy dependency on their digital infrastructure and electronic assets. This requires an entirely new disaster recovery strategy.
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Article: Data Disclosure in the Public Cloud |
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November 01 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Do you know who has control of your data? Take precaution when you decide to put your data on the public cloud hosted by Google or Amazon. A recent Wall Street Journal article reports statistics from Google’s Transparency Report, a new effort to disclose a limited amount of information regarding government requests for user data and requests for content removal.
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Article: What’s Missing From Most Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery? Network Replication |
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October 28 2011 - onlinetech.com
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I’ve written several blog posts on how cloud computing changes disaster recovery. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it makes disaster recovery more cost-effective and lowers the bar for deploying comprehensive DR plans across a company’s entire IT infrastructure. Cloud computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction of the cost of conventional disaster recovery.
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Article: Protecting Data with Cloud Computing Service Contracts |
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October 25 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Data security and intellectual property rights in cloud computing are issues that should be addressed prior to signing with a cloud computing provider – outlining the agreements in a contract will help protect your company and your (or your clients’) data.
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Video: Cloud Computing Market Trends: Video Interview |
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October 19 2011 - onlinetech.com
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TMCnet.com inteviews Mike Klein, COO of Online Tech, about his presentation at MSPWorld’s 2011 ITEEXPO in Austin, TX, as well as about the emerging trends of cloud computing in the market.
Three key focuses include:
- Mission critical applications and the need for high availability cloud computing;
- How disaster recovery changes significantly in the cloud computing world; and
- Regulatory compliance including HIPAA compliance and PCI compliance, and how to support these standards in the cloud.
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Article: Apple Invests in Cloud Computing Data Center |
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October 14 2011 - onlinetech.com
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With the release of iCloud on Wednesday, Apple has been dipping in the cloud computing pool recently with significant ongoing investments – in 2009, the company announced plans to spend billions of dollars on a data center in North Carolina over the course of nine years to support future projects.
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Article: Cloud Computing Prompts 2012 Data Center Expansion Plans INFOGRAPHIC |
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October 10 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Who’s planning to build or expand data centers in the next few years? Major growth in Internet service demands and cloud computing is pushing major companies to expand or build new data centers around the world.
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Article: The War of Email Cloud Computing: Google vs. Microsoft |
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October 06 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Let the war of the email clouds begin. A recent InfoWorld article reports Gartner’s predictions for Google’s share growth of the enterprise email market to shoot from 1 percent to 10 percent within a few years. And when it comes to the cloud-based email market, Gmail owns nearly half of the market.
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Article: 2011 Data Center Market Trends |
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October 05 2011 - onlinetech.com
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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.
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Article: 2011 SMBs & Disaster Recovery in the Cloud |
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September 30 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Only half of SMBs surveyed reported having a formal disaster recovery plan in place, according to Symantec’s 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from disaster recovery outsourcing options since it reduces the cost of capital and planning to invest in an offsite backup and data recovery plan.
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Article: Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud, Part II: 2011 Benefits of Cloud Adoption |
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September 26 2011 - onlinetech.com
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A recent Wall Street Journal article reporting on cloud security details the trends of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) when it comes to benefits of cloud adoption and the overall trend of outsourcing the cloud.
Cloud adoption statistics show 7 percent of small companies and 17 percent of mid-sized companies showing some kind of cloud activity in early 2010, which quickly doubled just 18 months later to 13 percent and 36 percent, respectively.
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Article: Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud, Part I: 2011 SMBs’ Cloud Security Concerns |
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September 23 2011 - onlinetech.com
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This is the first post in a three-part blog series on Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) – check back at our blog for Part II and III coming soon next week.
A recent Wall Street Journal article on cloud security details the trends of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) when it comes to concerns about security in the outsourced cloud.
In 2008, 72 percent of small businesses (less than 100 employees) flagged security as the main reason they were not outsourcing their IT infrastructure to the cloud, while 63 percent of medium-sized businesses (100 to 999 employees) echoed their concern. But mid-2011 trends show a decrease in worries, to 50 percent for small businesses and 47 percent of medium-sized.
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Article: Benefits of Private Cloud Computing: Compliant & Cost-Effective |
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September 15 2011 - onlinetech.com
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When it comes to security and compliance, private cloud computing trumps the public cloud. According to a 2011 study by the Aberdeen Group, the private cloud saves a total of 12% combined annual cost savings over public clouds on a per-application basis. When it comes to computing costs, everything adds up fast – including personnel and training, process and technology, hardware, software, services and support.
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Article: 2011 Cloud & IT Disaster Recovery Statistics |
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August 23 2011 - onlinetech.com
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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 million to $1 billion of yearly revenue) were the largest group to adopt the cloud for data storage, accounting for 48 percent of the cloud users surveyed. Small companies (under $50 million of yearly revenue) were next at 38 percent and large companies (above $1 billion of yearly revenue) came in last at only 26 percent.
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Video: High Availability Private Cloud – Part II |
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August 17 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Part II of a 3-part series – Mike Flaherty of Online Tech describes how to create local high availability in the cloud, virtualization and redundancy. Included is an overview of the components of a fully managed private cloud architecture.
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Article: Benefits of Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing |
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August 10 2011 - onlinetech.com
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There are a lot of benefits with cloud computing – cost-effective resource use, rapid provisioning, scalability and elasticity. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it changes disaster recovery, making it more cost-effective and lowering the bar for enterprises to deploy comprehensive DR plans for their entire IT infrastructure. Cloud Computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction of the cost of conventional disaster recovery.
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Video: High Availability Cloud Computing |
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August 08 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Online Tech Systems Engineer Mike Flaherty discusses creating a high availability cloud hosting environment. Key components of a reliable infrastructure, offsite backup, IT disaster recovery plan and high-availability will be discussed as well as the migration of data from its existing environment to a high availability environment.
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Article: Green IT: Cloud Computing Saves Time, Costs & Energy |
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July 27 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Many recent studies show cloud computing is an eco-friendly and cost-efficient option for businesses looking to save on IT expenses. Green IT, or green cloud computing, is getting more attention with recent studies reporting greater carbon efficiency, increased cost savings and improved operations efficiency.
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Article: Top 5 Tips For Cloud Computing Security |
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April 14 2011 - onlinetech.com
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Private cloud computing allows for the control that most PCI and HIPAA-sensitive organizations require over their data. When it comes to security, the importance of control over your environment cannot be overstated, and leads most IT professionals to adopt private cloud hosting over the public cloud.
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Video: Private Cloud Computing: How It Changes Disaster Recovery |
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March 04 2011 - www.onlinetech.com
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Video Mike Klein, COO of Online Tech, explains about how private cloud computing changes the game when it comes to disaster recovery possibilities.
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Video: Private Cloud Security: How Your Data Security Changes in The Cloud |
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February 09 2011 - www.onlinetech.com
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Video Jason Yaeger, Director of Operations at Online Tech, explains how data security changes for those hosted in the private or public cloud.
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Video: Private Cloud Computing Explanation, Benefits, and Recommendations |
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January 25 2011 - www.onlinetech.com
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Video Yan Ness, CEO of Online Tech, explains the benefits of private cloud computing and his recommendations for other CEO's thinking about moving to the cloud.
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