OnePartner celebrates 1,000 days of uptime
[May 20, 2011] “On Friday, May 20, the OnePartner ATAC datacenter passes a milestone – 1,000 consecutive days of uninterrupted operation,” announces Deaderick. “When so many of the region’s small and medium-sized businesses suffer multiple incidents every year, they can come to believe downtime is just unavoidable. Believing there is no other way, they don’t bother running the numbers to see how costly these outages are to their business. They just accept them.”...

Eastman Credit Union selects OnePartner ATAC datacenter
[May 4, 2011] Eastman Credit Union, with headquarters in Kingsport, Tennessee has established a mirrored infrastructure in the OnePartner ATAC datacenter in Duffield, Virginia...

OnePartner selects MobileMD for Health Information Exchange
[January 6, 2011] OnePartner, LLC selects MobileMD, Inc. for Health Information Exchange (HIE) component of innovative, cost effective, and rapidly deployed Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution...

Spectrum Laboratory Network selects OnePartner ATAC datacenter for disaster recovery site
[August 11, 2010] Mr. Tom Deaderick, Director of Onepartner, LLC and Mr. Bryan Firestone, Chief Information Officer of Spectrum Laboratory Network, announce an agreement between the two organizations to provide geographically diverse business continuity and disaster recovery services to support Spectrum Laboratory Network's Mid-Atlantic operations...

Does data center uptime affect energy efficiency?
[April 6, 2010] The federal Environmental Protection Agency recently found that a data center's uptime has no statistically significant effect on its energy efficiency. But does the claim hold water?

At first blush, it would seem that uptime would hurt data center efficiency. Typically the more uptime a facility has, the more redundancy it has to build in to account for equipment failure. But that apparently is not as large a factor as other design elements...

Mountain Region Family Medicine completes successful EMR deployment, credits regional partners
[March 10, 2010] Linke shares, “In partnering with OnePartner we know our data is secure. New HIPAA requirements have tightened up even more with regard to PHI (Protected Health Information). We feel much more confident knowing that our data is in such a secure facility”...

David Morin, MD to lead OnePartner Research
[October 5, 2009] Holston Medical Group (Kingsport, TN) and OnePartner (Duffield, VA) are pleased to announce that respected internal medicine physician and research clinician, David Morin, MD, RPh, FACP, CPI, will lead both organization's extensive clinical research efforts...

Energy Regulation and Data Centers
[September 3, 2009] Two forms of regulation now target data centers. One form of regulation is essentially a raising of the bar, and the other a misguided “green” regulation, almost certain to result in greater depletion of resources for less overall production...

$1.3M Grant Will Provide State-Of-The-Art EMR Infrastructure
[August 26, 2009] The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission (VTICRC) today announced a $1.3M grant to the Scott County Economic Development Authority in partnership with OnePartner for the purpose of proposing an unprecedented, turn-key solution that will provide state-of-the-art electronic medical records capabilities to 37 Virginia Department of Health locations in Southwest Virginia and Southside Virginia...

OnePartner Follows the Tier System
[August 10, 2009] OnePartner's Advanced Technology Applications Center (ATAC) in Southwest Virginia began with OnePartner's search for a suitable Tier III or Tier IV data center to provide disaster recovery services for regional medical records. Simple research (using Google) seemingly identified hundreds of data centers claiming Tier levels, although there were none in the immediate area...

OnePartner Follows the Tier System
[August 6, 2009] The Disaster Task Force, founded by OnePartner Director, Tom Deaderick is featured in the July issue of The Business Journal of Tri-Cities/Virginia...

Tri-Cities’ techno leaders find region ill prepared for disaster; seek to increase preparedness with new Disaster Task Force
[June 9, 2009] “From the examples we’ve seen, we’re literally one bad day away from catastrophe for most of the businesses in the region,” explains Tom Deaderick, director of OnePartner.

Faced with this sobering reality, the Disaster Task Force is doing everything creatively possible to increase regional dialogue in an effort that will result in improved regional preparedness...

Debunking Data Centers
[April 21, 2009] Clean white server rooms, security cameras, biometric scanners, enormous cooling units, uninterruptible power supplies and massive generators make professional data centers look more impressive than your server room, but are they...

Virginia's Chopra Named New Federal CTO
[April 20, 2009] "Aneesh was very involved with us," said Deaderick. "He's as adept with technology as any tech company leader I've met. He understood the importance of OnePartner's Tier III certification immediately, and spent a lot of time with us brainstorming and proposing ideas, especially in the area of centralizing health care records in the OnePartner ATAC data center...

Senator Mark Warner visits OnePartner ATAC
[April 13, 2009] Warner paid a visit OnePartner ATAC, a sister company to Holston Medical Group that collects, stores and transfers electronic medical records, as well as other sensitive data for clients like banks and law enforcement agencies, throughout the United States...

Hosting: Decisions On Location
[April 10, 2009] Just because you've decided to go with a hosted data center doesn't mean you're finished making major decisions. Now you have to decide whether the site should be local-or at least close enough to allow regular site visits-or farther away for disaster preparedness purposes.

It's a business-critical decision and one that demands a solid understanding of your business goals. Basic physics comes into play, too...

Health-care data centers brace for change
[April 8, 2009] The health-care industry has not traditionally outsourced IT as much as other sectors, said Tom Deaderick, the director of OnePartner's Advanced Technology and Applications Center (ATAC) in southwest Virginia, the only colocation data center in the country that is certified Tier 3 by The Uptime Institute. But with the new law, Deaderick expects that to change...

Obama's 'cap and trade' energy plan could hit data centers
[April 6, 2009] Data centers clearly are among the facilities that would be in the bull's-eye of a cap-and-trade program - either directly or indirectly...

Clean The Data Center
[February 27, 2009] Data centers, with all the sensitive equipment they house, are different from any other business environment. Not only can dust particles affect equipment operation, but the super-sensitive smoke detectors that dot server spaces can also pick up contaminants in the space, misinterpreting them as smoke and sounding an alarm when particulate counts rise...

Is Uptime Institute's data center tier system worth it?
[February 20, 2009] But in recent years, Uptime said that the tier system has been misused. Companies started boasting "Tier 2-plus" status or a "near-Tier 3" data center, designations that Uptime doesn't recognize. Colocation and hosting data centers frequently send out press releases claiming Tier 3 or 4 status, even if they haven't been officially certified...

Tips For Taming Cabinet Chaos
[February 20, 2009] "Cabinets are one of many components that make up the data center environment. Affecting any one component introduces the risk of impact to others, or even the entire environment."

OnePartner ATAC data center on WCYB broadcast
[January 28, 2009] OnePartner's ATAC data center is featured on WCYB...

OnePartner, BCTI Team Up, Offering Tier III Commercial Data Center and Managed Services
[January 15, 2009] The OnePartner Advanced Technology & Applications Center (ATAC) today announced a partnership agreement with BCTI, combining ATAC's exclusive commercial Tier III data center with the managed network and information technology services of BCTI...

OnePartner ATAC to provide Disaster Recovery for HMG
[November 25, 2008] OnePartner, LLC is pleased to announce that Holston Medical Group has chosen the OnePartner Advanced Technology & Applications Center (ATAC) to provide disaster recovery for their extensive AllScripts TouchWorks Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system and critical infrastructure...

OnePartner Director, featured in November's Business Journal
[November 11, 2008] The man who is responsible for the creation of the only Certified Tier III disaster recovery and commercial hosting facility in America is officially on the clock. On October 2, 2008, OnePartner's Advanced Technology and Applications Center (ATAC) in Duffield, Virginia, went online. Since announcing plans to create the country's most secure commercial data hosting facility, Deaderick and his team have brought on several clients for whom data security is paramount...

OnePartner ATAC enables Bank of Tennessee Disaster Recovery
[October 24, 2008] Bank of Tennessee will install equipment within OnePartner's Advanced Technology & Applications Center (ATAC) that provides failover capability for the most vital systems and data. This measure ensures greater protection against disruptions at the bank's primary data center...

COSEHC and OnePartner join forces to improve cardiovascular disease outcomes
[October 13, 2008] Dr. Michael A. Moore, President of the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC) and Tom Deaderick, Director of OnePartner, LLC announce an agreement between the two organizations to join forces in the collection and analysis of health care data from the COSEHC Centers of Excellence affiliated network of medical practices...

OnePartner Unveils Nation's First, Only Certified Commercial Tier III Data Center
[August 15, 2008] Regional Technology and business leaders gathered in Duffield last Friday for the unveiling of the nation's first and only of its kind data center...

OnePartner ATAC Recognized for Innovation
[May 29, 2008] As the first and the only commercial data center ever certified at a Tier III level by the Uptime Institute and ComputerSite Engineering, the ATAC is the perfect addition to the technology infrastructure investments already in place in Southwest Virginia...

Promoting a Conduit of Cooperation
[April 4, 2008] OnePartner, an off-shoot company of the Holston Medical Group (HMG) in Kingsport, TN, hopes to alleviate some of the anxiety that accompanies the execution and management of EMR...

OnePartner, EMBARQ Announce Tier III Data Center Connectivity
[February 18, 2008] OnePartner today announced the availability of their high-availability business continuance, disaster recovery and colocation services, enabled significantly by a key partnership with EMBARQ to provide the needed highly reliable network access to deliver these services...

OnePartner ATAC Certification announced in AFCOM News
[February 7, 2008] OnePartner says its Advanced Technology and Applications Center (ATAC) has achieved certification as the nation's first and only commercial Tier III facility available for colocation, hosting and disaster recovery services. Julian Kudritzki, certification manager of The Uptime Institute, affirms the accomplishment. The Uptime Institute created the Tier classification system as a benchmark for reliable data center infrastructure design...

When Businesses ATAC: Duffield Data Center is Unmatched in the US
[February 5, 2008] There is nowhere in America where businesses can outsource their data storage and be assured that they will have access to that data , even if the host shuts down part of the distribution path. But that's about to change...

New medical complex, data center going up in Duffield
[January 24, 2008] OnePartner Advanced Technology and Applications Center is scheduled to open in June while the medical facility will open later in the summer or early fall. A 9,200 square-foot data center along with a 37,000 square-foot medical center, will form a new campus being built in Duffield...

OnePartner ATAC certified as the Nation's first and only commercial Tier III facility
[January 15, 2008] OnePartner, LLC, is pleased to announce its Advanced Technology & Application Center (ATAC), Duffield, Va., has achieved Certification as the nation's first and only commercial Tier III facility. As such, the ATAC promises to be region's premier commercial data center for colocation, hosting and disaster recovery services...

OnePartner web site wins "Outstanding" WebAward
[September 25, 2007] The OnePartner site's highest awards were for content and copywriting. The site also features a robust secure application which is accessible to members of OnePartner Research. This application helps the company distribute clinical trial opportunities to regional partners...

OnePartner will host region's healthcare records
[September 6, 2007] Tom Deaderick, Vice-President for Business Development at OnePartner, noted that CareSpark is among the first organizations to take advantage of the region's only commercially-available data center with high-level security and redundancy. "While this facility will not be limited to health care users, we certainly aspire to showcase our region's ability to serve CareSpark and other sophisticated users who need the highest levels of security and reliability for their operations."

Thomas "Mac" Scofield joins OnePartner
[May 7, 2007] OnePartner, LLC, is pleased to announce Thomas "Mac" Scofield has been selected to join its leadership team. Coming to OnePartner from Eastman Chemical Company with extensive expertise in data center facilities and operations management roles, Scofield's role as manager of the data center will be integral in the launch of the region's only tier III, high-availability hosting data center-the OnePartner Advanced Technology and Applications Center (ATAC)...

HMG announces medical center & data center in Duffield, Va.
[October 25, 2006] The new facility will be named the OnePartner ATAC. OnePartner is the name of a new management services organization HMG is launching that will provide the regional healthcare industry with affordable access to modern electronic health information technology. HMG has become known throughout the nation as a pioneer in the comprehensive utilization of electronic health records...

Governor Kaine Announces 40 New Jobs for Scott County
[October 25, 2006] Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that Holston Medical Group (HMG), a multi-specialty physician practice, will invest $3 million to open its first medical records data center in Scott County. The company, which will create 40 new jobs, will access and store the digital medical records of patients for multiple practices and hospitals in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia...

Former Intellithought President Tom Deaderick joins HMG
[October 24, 2006] Holston Medical Group is pleased to announce Tom Deaderick has joined its administrative team as director of business development...