Category: Blog

VMware Goes Direct with Public IaaS

I scream, you scream, we all scream for public cloud service.

It’s so popular, in fact, that VMware is offering the service direct, targeting enterprises who are already large VMware shops.

Is AIS worried? Nah. By definition our services are tailored to our clients’ needs and include large dollops of customer service and extremely high-end (e.g.

AIS in Daily Transcript Article re: Cybersecurity

From the May 21, 2013 Daily Transcript and based on a recent Executive Roundtable…
Business cyberthreats require continuous security updates
The cloud has defeated the “blue screen of death,” but companies are constantly taxed with updating security software and finding new ways to combat cyberthreats.

Big Data Not “All That”?

News flash: big data is not sufficient to achieve pure efficiency or solve all business problems.

Spoiler alert: big data is one tool among many in the business executive’s organizational arsenal.

Opinion: people with insight and experience and street-smarts and common sense matter too.

Nate Silver on Big Data

Nate Silver is a rock star.

We’re often blind to our biases; big data helps surface the reality.

Statistically speaking, Wednesday rules — Nate says so, and he’s a rock star.

Summary article by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData and original article by Kurt Wagner in Fortune.

Emphasis in red added by me.

Two Sides to Social Media and Big Data

Coins have two sides, both heads and tails — and as Bret Michaels from Poison reminds us, “Every rose has it’s thorn.”

Such is the case with both social media and big data, which like any new technologies, discoveries, and applications may be used for good and less good.

Summary and commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData; original article by Prof. Nancy Rothbard in Knowledge@Wharton.

Liquid Grids Chooses AIS for Cloud over Amazon Web Services

Ramos Mays, CTO of Liquid Grids, describes all the reasons his company decided to leave Amazon Web Services (AWS) for BusinessCloud1 service at AIS — and why he remains very happy with his choice.

Audio presentation recorded at the San Diego VMware User Group (VMUG) meeting on May 30, 2013.

Sloppy Software: Serious Security Situation

You’d think we’d learn — that the feedback loop of “ouch, that hurts, not gonna do that again” would be in full effect.

Well, uh, it seems that not everyone got the memo.

(By the way, try searching for a “sloppy” image and see just how many photo variations of a certain type of edible dish come up — so I had to revert to “messy”. Apologies…)

Emphasis in red added by me.

New Way to Structure Outsourcing Contracts

I like the ideas in the article below: progressive, mutual, results-based.

It will certainly take time to get entrenched players to “trust” (but verify, of course), but I applaud the concept of always needing to show value and earn your next paycheck.

Summary by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO; original by Stephanie Overby in CIO.

Emphasis in red added by me.

Small Mo Betta

Here’s a concept that resonates especially well with me: the advantage of small teams.

Small drives prioritization, necessary tradeoffs, and clarity of objectives. It’s why I work for a small company and why I lead a small team.

Tech Needs More Women, IMO. Lean In?

As a “progressive” father of a bright tween daughter, I have a strong personal interest in the opportunities and stereotypes that exist for women in our society.

The survey results below, summarized by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO and originally published by Kurt Wagner in Forbes, cast new light on our reality.

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