Storage space: Metro Detroit is a growing data-hosting hub
Michigan Business Review,
2/19/2009
In a new outsourcing trend for the region, insurers, banks, and health care companies are entrusting local data centers to manage critical business information.
Excerpt:
"It's one of the secrets of Michigan," said Yan Ness, Online Tech's CEO… "Right now there's a downslope in the banks and the credit markets. Companies that basically help other companies avoid capital deployment are acutely in demand."
For businesses, the ability to outsource the hosting of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) or supply chain management software to offsite data centers adds up to money saved on IT staffs and server banks.
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