{"id":1363,"date":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/online-technologies-opens-new-michigan-data-center\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:20:21","slug":"online-technologies-opens-new-michigan-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/online-technologies-opens-new-michigan-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Technologies Opens New Michigan Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>New Site Provides Colocation and Dedicated Servers for Small and Mid-sized Businesses<\/span><\/h4>\n

ANN ARBOR, MI<\/strong> \u2014 Online Tech<\/a> announces the opening of its newest data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.\u00a0 The 10,500 square foot data center is located in Avis Farms, a technology park south of Ann Arbor.\u00a0 The Avis Data Center will house its growing colocation, dedicated server and managed service product lines sold to small and mid-sized businesses in Michigan and the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n

The new data center is designed for high availability applications that need to be always-on and always connected to the Internet.\u00a0 Customers can select redundant power and network options to their computer systems.\u00a0 Because the data center has dual power generators and redundant uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), there is no single point of failure in the power delivered to a customer\u2019s equipment.<\/p>\n

The network infrastructure offers similar high availability with two dedicated gigabit fiber connections between the Avis Data Center<\/a> and Online Technologies\u2019 other data centers in downtown Ann Arbor and Flint Township.\u00a0 The network has a redundant Cisco network architecture and is connected to multiple Tier1 Internet suppliers.\u00a0 Built-in failover across the network and Internet providers eliminates any single point of failure in the Internet delivery.<\/p>\n

With the addition of its third corporate-owned data center, Online Technologies has a unique advancategorye with its multiple data centers dispersed across southeast Michigan.\u00a0 With a common network infrastructure, the three data centers are knit together into one \u201cvirtual data center.\u201d\u00a0 This gives clients the ability to locate their primary data center in one of Online Technologies\u2019 sites and their disaster recovery equipment in a separate data center separated by 50 miles and different power grids, yet function as if they were in the same data center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take a long term view towards the data center market and see this as an ideal time to bring additional capacity online. The current economic environment provides us the opportunity to gain significant cost advancategoryes through acquisitions that can last the next decade\u201d said Bob Palmerton, Chief Financial Officer.<\/p>\n

Online Technologies’ operations include data centers in downtown Ann Arbor and in Flint Township. With addition of the Avis Data Center, Online Technologies has grown from a single 800 square foot data center in 2003 to four data centers with a combined total of more than 40,000 square feet. OTC also leases data center space from a partner in Southfield for its clients requiring service closer to the Detroit area.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Online Tech at 734-213-2020<\/p>\n

Online Tech (www.onlinetech.com<\/b><\/u><\/a>) <\/b>is Michigan\u2019s Fort Knox for computing and data.\u00a0 Our secure, highly reliable data centers provide the infrastructure to ensure our clients’ computers are always on; their data is always safe, and they are always connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n

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