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UPS Upgrade & Overhaul: Recommendations for a Successful UPS Upgrade

Online Tech recently upgraded their UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system at their Mid-Michigan data center in May 2011. Although the…

Breakdown of Federal Cloud Computing

The problem with the old IT infrastructure, according to Federal CIO Vivek Kundra in Federal Cloud Computing Strategy: “…low asset…

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…

Service Organization Control Reports: SOC 1, SOC 2 & SOC 3

In April 2010, the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) announced the replacement of SAS 70 by a new…

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…

High Availability Private Cloud – Part II

Part II of a 3-part series – Mike Flaherty of Online Tech describes how to create local high availability in…

2011 PCI Compliance Statistics from Visa

Visa.com releases statistics on the estimated population size, estimated percent of Visa transactions and percent of PCI DSS compliance validated…

Fend Off Hackers with PCI Compliant Hosting & Virtual Private Firewall Security

High Availability Cloud Computing

Online Tech Systems Engineer Mike Flaherty discusses creating a high availability cloud hosting environment. Key components of a reliable infrastructure,…