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September 2011


Upcoming Events:

Online Tech will be hosting a couple of free educational webinars in September.

9/20 @ 2PM ET:
How a Small Incident Turns into a Major Disaster
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9/27 @ 2PM ET:
Cloud Computing and the Law: Concerns and Best Practices
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Online Tech is sponsoring the 7x24 Exchange Event discussing Disaster Recovery on September 22, 2011
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News:

Online Tech Achieves HIPAA Compliance at All Data Centers
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Online Tech Sponsors IT Disaster Recovery Webinar and 7x24 Exchange Event
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Online Tech Invests $1 Million in Mid-Michigan Data Center Expansion
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Online Tech Streamlines Data Center Management with Portal Updates
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on Disaster Recovery: 2011 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 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.

How does the cloud adoption effect recovery time?

Along with the highest use of cloud computing, mid-sized businesses also made out with the shortest recovery times - the average length of time per disaster recovery event lasted 4 hours, while large companies, with the least percentage of cloud adoption, endured 7.7 hours.


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Related Resources:


UPS Upgrade & Overhaul: Recommendations for Success

Online Tech recently upgraded their UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system at their Mid-Michigan data center in May 2011. Although the company ran the risk of potential downtime, Online Tech's Director of Operations, Jason Yaeger, acknowledged that the data center's pooled UPS units were nearing the end of their recommended lifetime of service.

The big overhaul required moving over 90,000 pounds of equipment over a raised floor and enlisting a team of eight employees, vendors and contractors, including relocators, electricians, riggers, generator maintenance and battery maintenance resources to complete the upgrade while still maintaining 100% uptime for clients.

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New Solutions for Security and Compliance in the Cloud

Recently VMware's vCloud Solutions Architect Brian Foley conducted a webinar on the inherient data security challenges in cloud environments and the tools to address them.

In this webinar, he went over how compliance and governance drive data security, the current challenges of data security in cloud environments, the importance of knowing where your data is being stored, and how to discover and protect sensitive data.

The main goal of this webinar was to show the trends in the marketplace when it comes to data security and some of the things that leading cloud companies are doing to address these compliance issues.

Key take-a-ways from the webinar were:

    • Compliance and governance drive data security.
    • The key to data security is to lower your risk by meeting compliance.
    • You can mitigate outages through approved change processes.
    • Unified patching and provisioning is key to compliance.

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