“We have trusted Online Tech with the heartbeat of our business. We are able to utilize a virtual cloud environment and still be in a secure SAS 70 certified, PCI compliant environment,” says Dean Scaros, President and Founder of Pay-Ease.
Along with other companies that accept credit card payments, Pay-Ease is required to be PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliant. Being PCI compliant verifies that a merchant or payment processor has conformed to the security standards set by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). This standard protects cardholder data (CHD) through an approach that covers every aspect of a technology-based solution including documented policies, stringent physical security measures, encryption, firewall settings, regular detailed audits, and everything in between.
“One of the PCI compliant requirements is that every server needs to perform one function and one function only,” says Tom Numbere JR. of PCG Technology Services. “This is one of the reasons it can be very expensive to become PCI compliant. Online Tech presented a great way to lower costs by providing us the opportunity to virtualize the server environment,” says Numbere. “Their expertise and private cloud were integral to the project’s success.”
Collaborating with Online Tech’s technical team, Pay-Ease was able to develop a scalable, flexible, and secure virtual server and storage environment for both their production and backup environments. Online Tech’s OT Private Cloud computing platform offers Pay-Ease a fully managed private cloud with 24X7 monitoring, management, electronic offsite backup, and IT disaster recovery. With the fully redundant private cloud encompassing both servers and storage, Pay-Ease enjoys seamless failover and the ability to add, reconfigure or delete servers, hardware, or software with zero downtime at any time of the day without impacting customers. Because Pay-ease can quickly add resources to their private cloud, they have positioned their IT infrastructure to keep up with their accelerating business growth in eCommerce SaaS services.
About Online Tech
Online Tech (www.OnlineTech.com) is the leader in secure and compliant hosting services including private cloud hosting, managed cloud hosting, hybrid cloud hosting, managed dedicated servers, disaster recovery and offsite backup services, and Michigan colocation. Online Tech’s legacy of independent HIPAA, PCI, SAS 70 Type II, SSAE 16 Type II (SOC 1), SOC 2, and SOC 3 audits and reports ensures the security, privacy, and availability expected of a trusted service organization. For more information, call (877) 740-5028 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
About Pay-Ease
Pay-Ease (www.pay-ease.com) is a frontrunner in electronic financial processing software and consumer bill payment. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Pay-Ease’s utilizes their knowledge and experience from over 20 years of financial software development to create a fully integrated network solution for consumer bill payment processing and other financial services.
About PCG
PCG is a leader in IT Strategy and Compliance. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, PCG leverages the experience of their team of long-time industry professionals to assist clients in reducing overall costs, improving productivity, and achieving regulatory compliance.
