Healthcare Software Company Hosts HIPAA Compliant SaaS Application in Midwest Data Center

Ann Arbor, MI -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/05/2011 -- MedHub, a healthcare software company providing services to large academic teaching hospitals, has partnered with Online Tech for HIPAA compliant colocation services. Online Tech's Michigan data centers operate under SSAE 16, SOC, & HIPAA compliance, allowing clients to meet HIPAA compliant hosting requirements.

"Partnering with Online Tech lets us utilize their technical expertise and experience operating HIPAA compliant data centers," says Peter Orr, MedHub President. "We can focus on servicing our customers and not using our resources to manage a HIPAA compliant data center."

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, any company that interacts with sensitive patient information or health records must be HIPAA compliant. A HIPAA audit by an independent Certified HIPAA Practitioner (CHP) and Certified HIPAA Security Specialist (CHSS) found Online Tech to be 100% compliant across all 54 HIPAA citations and 136 audited components.

Online Tech has helped MedHub achieve the privacy, security, and availability requirements of HIPAA compliance with strict physical and network security and audited change logs. A HIPAA compliant data center provides all the required physical, environmental, network and infrastructure security needed to meet the requirements set out in the HITECH Act to ensure patient information is protected.

Online Tech's infrastructure design incorporates fully redundant power, network, and backup into a network of high availability data centers, located over 50 miles apart, to provide uninterruptible power and network connectivity with no single point of failure.

MedHub also uses Online Tech's OTPortal™, a web-based client portal that provides a single, cohesive interface for remote management, to monitor their collocated servers along with their own monitoring systems and front end. Provided to every colocation, managed server, and cloud client at no additional cost, OTPortal's feature-rich dashboard delivers self-service, on-demand access to server monitoring, management, resource upgrades, and 24X7 customer support.

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Michigan Data Centers Lower Risk for Uniform Country’s Retail Website

Ann Arbor, MI -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/14/2011 -- Uniform Country, an e-commerce retailer of medical scrubs, has joined the growing trend of online merchants hosting their storefronts on a managed cloud by selecting Michigan-based managed data center operator Online Tech to host their online retail website and database.

Online Tech's Managed Cloud Platform is designed to assure 100% uptime with enterprise level VMware and high availability hosts, network and managed SAN storage, as opposed to most public clouds which are designed to minimize hardware, storage and virtualization costs. This high availability was exactly what Dale Morrison, owner of Uniform Country, needed for his popular retail website.

During the past year, Morrison's search for a new website host provider put him in the direction of cloud computing. He found that hosting his e-commerce website on a managed cloud would offer the high availability and high redundancy his online storefront demanded.

"A retail website is always open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," says Morrison. "If our website was down, it would be very hard to put a price tag on how much sales and customers we would lose."

Online Tech's managed cloud platform offers Uniform Country high availability designed around industry best practices. Uniform Country's website is hosted on Online Tech's managed cloud servers which run VMware Enterprise edition on a fully redundant, high availability Dell server infrastructure with EqualLogic SANs in a RAID10 configuration and redundant Fortinet firewalls.

Based in Roanoke, Virgina, Uniform Country also looked to a managed cloud host provider to lower their risks caused by natural disasters like hurricanes. Online Tech's Michigan data centers are situated in the ideal location for year-round safe and secure hosting. Michigan has an extremely low risk of all types of natural disasters and from 1998 to 2009, has experience the lowest number of major natural disasters, second only to Alaska.

About Online Tech
Online Tech (http://www.OnlineTech.com), the Midwest's premier managed data center operator, serves a growing demand for data and computing capacity in small and mid-size businesses. Through its high availability SAS 70 data centers, Online Tech delivers a range of hosting services including michigan colocation, managed dedicated servers, private cloud hosting, and disaster recovery. Online Tech's Michigan data centers operate under SSAE 16 compliance, allowing its clients to meet all of their PCI compliant hosting, HIPAA compliant hosting, and SOX compliant hosting needs. For more information call (877)740-5028.

About Uniform Country
Uniform Country was founded on providing medical professionals with a variety of affordable, durable medical uniforms and equipment. Medical professionals can find a large selection of professional and fun medical uniforms including nurse scrubs, lab coats, veterinary, scrubs, and more. For more information or to place an order, visit http://www.uniformcountry.com.

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Breaking Price Point & Recovery Time Barriers for Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery

Ann Arbor, MI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2011 -- Online Tech announced the first easy, comprehensive, and cost-effective disaster recovery solution for cloud computing today. DR Now!™ replicates the entire hosted cloud including servers, software, network and security to an offsite disaster recovery cloud without any programming or special configuration. DR Now! delivers recovery times under 4 hours for less than half the cost of the production cloud servers.

While traditional disaster recovery (DR) systems have been expensive, unreliable and slow, cloud computing makes disaster recovery affordable, reliable and fast. By replicating entire cloud servers and the network configuration between data centers, the time-consuming aspects of recovering servers, applications and data into a cold site environment has been replaced with just a few clicks to spin up the replicated servers and network configuration.

Online Tech replicates its shared and private clouds between their Michigan data centers. When a disaster is declared, Online Tech commits that the entire replicated cloud, including servers, software, network and security configuration will be online in less than 4 hours.

Other features of DR Now! include:

- Fully provisioned, permanently reserved servers for disaster recovery, unlike traditional cold site DR plans in which servers are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis.

- Annual DR testing and automatic emergency response by Online Tech.

- A warranted 4 hour recovery time objective (RTO), specifying worst case availability.

- A warranted 4 hour recovery point objective (RPO), specifying worst case amount of data lost.

- Provisioning capability for even faster RTO and RPO.

- Starting at $99 per month, DR servers can be ordered by a single checkbox with the order of a cloud server. Online Tech sets up the DR cloud without any additional user configuration.

"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," said Mike Klein, President of Online Tech. "Cloud computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction of the cost of conventional disaster recovery."

Online Tech has deployed and tested DR Now! for its own server infrastructure. "We replicate our cloud servers and network infrastructure between our data centers for our own critical business systems," said Yan Ness, CEO of Online Tech. "We consistently recover our entire internal private cloud with 30 cloud servers in under an hour in our regular disaster recovery tests over the past year. This gives us a high degree of confidence as we open up this solution to our client base."

About Online Tech
Online Tech (http://www.OnlineTech.com), the Midwest's premier managed data center operator, serves a growing demand for data and computing capacity in small and mid-size businesses. Through its high availability SAS 70 data centers, Online Tech delivers a range of hosting services including michigan colocation, managed dedicated servers, private cloud hosting, and disaster recovery. Online Tech's Michigan data centers operate under SSAE 16 compliance, allowing its clients to meet all of their PCI compliant hosting, HIPAA compliant hosting, and SOX compliant hosting needs. For more information call (877)740-5028.

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Ann Arbor, MI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/18/2011 -- Edward Lowe Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurship through research, recognition and educational programs, has selected Online Tech for high availability colocation services. Online Tech's data center offers Edward Lowe Foundation websites, http://www.edwardlowe.org; http://www.youreconomy.org; http://www.nationalcentereg.org and http://www.companiestowatch.org, more security, reliability and high availability.

Located in rural southwest Michigan proved to be a challenge for Edward Lowe Foundation with inconsistent bandwidth and power outages. As the company's websites grew in popularity and more tools were added to the sites, they had difficulty keeping up with demand. Also, the Foundation began selling services and partnering with outside companies and now had the responsibility to deliver quality services by improving their sites' reliability and high availability.

"As we begin selling services and delivering data to partners like NASDAQ, it was obvious that we had to have a solid solution," says Chris Ryback, Manager of Technical and Digital Media. Then the company experienced a fire in their building. The data center was spared, but it was the deciding factor that it was time to partner with a managed data center for improved security, reliability and availability.

Partnering with Online Tech gives Edward Lowe Foundation a high availability IT framework that ensures that critical data and applications are always secure and always available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Online Tech's data centers, uniquely located 53 miles apart, are interconnected with dedicated Gigabit fiber for Internet traffic failover and routing of backup and disaster recovery data between data centers.

"We could not replicate the IT infrastructure we get with Online Tech's data centers. By partnering with Online Tech we don't have to worry about our infrastructure and can focus on what is important to us – being a thought leader in business," says Ryback.

About Online Tech
Online Tech (http://www.OnlineTech.com), the Midwest's premier managed data center operator, serves a growing demand for data and computing capacity in small and mid-size businesses. Through its high availability SAS 70 data centers, Online Tech delivers a range of hosting services including colocation, managed dedicated servers, private cloud hosting, and disaster recovery. Online Tech's Michigan data centers operate under SSAE 16 compliance, allowing its clients to meet all of their PCI compliant hosting, HIPAA compliant hosting, and SOX compliant hosting needs. For more information call (877)740-5028.

About Edward Lowe Foundation
Established in 1985, the Edward Lowe Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurship through research, recognition and educational programs, which are delivered nationally through entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs). The foundation focuses on second-stage companies - those that have moved beyond the startup phase and seek significant, steady growth. For more information about the foundation, visit http://www.edwardlowe.org or http://www.facebook.com/EdwardLoweFoundation.

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Online Tech Improves Stability and Reduces Operating Expenses with the Private Cloud

Ann Arbor, MI -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/17/2011 -- After several years of using server virtualization technologies, Online Tech decided to go 'all in' by moving their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. Immediate benefits included supporting all the same company systems with a mere tenth of the physical servers used before the cloud. Ongoing benefits include zero-downtime during hardware and software maintenance, faster product development, and a more robust disaster recovery paradigm.

"We were thrilled by the resource savings when we reduced the number of servers required to support our entire IT infrastructure from 24 physical servers to just 2," says Mike Klein, President of Online Tech. "The benefits to our bottom line were significant, and convinced us that private cloud computing could help other businesses the same way it helped us."

Online Tech needed to implement a cloud computing solution capable of passing their SAS 70 audited procedures. Using VMWare's virtualization technologies, and Dell EqualLogic SANs, Online Tech standardized a private cloud computing architecture with dedicated servers, network infrastructure, and storage. The result was a secure private cloud, capable of meeting PCI, SOX, and HIPAA compliance requirements.

"Moving to the cloud puts our support team in a great position to maintain the company infrastructure without having to makes changes in the middle of the night or risk downtime for the company. It's an IT manager's dream," says Jason Yaeger, Operations Manager for Online Tech.

Aside from reducing downtime, the cloud has also sped the pace of product development. "Being able to configure a new server environment within minutes and add resources on the fly has removed hardware obstacles from the development of our client portal, bandwidth monitoring, and invoicing systems. We can be super-agile in the cloud," says Farooq Ahmed, Systems Architect at Online Tech.

Online Tech's clients have been quick to realize the benefits, and are using Online Tech's OT Private Cloud ™ to meet HIPAA and PCI compliance standards without sacrificing flexibility or security.

"We have realized fantastic flexibility, reduced our time-to-market, and improved our resiliency with cloud computing. When colleagues ask me if they should consider moving to the private cloud, my advice is: do it now," says Yan Ness, CEO of Online Tech.

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