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(Ann Arbor, MI – November 15, 2006) Online Technologies Corporation, a leading data center operator and managed services company announced today the addition of Compendia Biosciences, Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan to its rapidly growing and diversified portfolio of customers.
Online Technologies will provide Compendia with dedicated servers, application and database hosting and managed services that include configuring sub-networks with firewalls, data backups, server monitoring, and a managed VPN out of its world class data center facility located in Flint, Michigan.
Daniel Rhodes, Compendia Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer said, “Compendia chose Online Technologies because of the company’s reputation for reliability, responsiveness to customers and ability to provide dedicated servers and a full range of managed Internet services from a local top tier data center. Further, we avoided the large capital outlay required if we were to attempt to equip our own enterprise class data facility.”
“As a leader in data driven statistical analysis in the health care industry”, Mr. Rhodes continued, “Compendia Biosciences needed a reliable, secure, and scalable solution. We contracted with Online Technologies to handle our complex hosting structure which freed us up to concentrate on our data delivery services for our customers. Importantly, as our business continues to grow, we can easily and quickly scale our computing infrastructure with Online Technologies.”
“We were able to meet Compendia’s business objectives based on our extensive expertise, strong technical resources and solid data center facility,” said Ty Myers, Online Technologies’ Vice President of Sales. “To keep pace with the changing, demanding and ‘always on’ business requirements of operating a high availability enterprise data center, it is imperative that our technology infrastructure be secure and available. Online Technologies provides our customers with data center services that improve reliability, lower costs, and maximize internal resources while keeping an organization’s valuable information technology assets close to the business. We combine our network of world-class data centers and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies,” Mr. Myers concluded.
About Compendia Bioscience, Inc.
Compendia Bioscience advances drug target and biomarker discovery through powerful molecular oncology tools, data, and analysis software. The Company’s flagship product, Oncomine™ Professional , unifies and mines thousands of molecular oncology profiles, enabling researchers to assess target and pathway activity online in seconds. For additional information, please visit the Company’s Web Site at www.compendiabio.com and the Oncomine Web Site at www.oncomine.com.
About Online Tech
Online Technologies Corporation (www.onlinetech.com) is a leading independent data center operator and managed services provider in the Midwestern United States. The company provides a comprehensive range of secure, scalable, enterprise-level IT infrastructure operations for clients including: hosting dedicated servers, colocation, managed data storage, enterprise backup, business continuity and disaster recovery services. Online Technologies combines its multiple top tier data centers and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies.