Posted by Brian Wood on May 24, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 23, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 22, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 21, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 20, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 16, 2013 in Blog, Videos
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 16, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 15, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 15, 2013 in Blog
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.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 14, 2013 in Blog
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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The company had grown to the point where we began to look for a new headquarters. At the same time, we were seriously considering whether to continue owning our own data center or to partner with a leading industry partner and further strengthen our already best-in-class hosting services. AIS proposed an ideal solution for us right here in our back yard with the connectivity, flexible power and security we needed, plus we’d be able to maintain the control of the data center as though it were i…Erez Nir, CTOMitchell International
As Infinitely Virtual continues to grow, we make massive investments into our hosting infrastructure. The addition of our secondary facility into the AIS Lightwave Data Center, with its multi-gigabit connectivity to its space inside the Los Angeles One Wilshire Data Center, will enable us to accommodate our intense growth and accelerate the release of new products and services.Adam Stern, CEO and presidentInfinitely Virtual and Altay Corp
This is an important milestone for AIS – affirming that our enterprise-class data centers have the appropriate internal controls in place for assuring the highest level of standards for compliance, security and availability. We want our clients to feel comfortable that we are committed to taking the necessary steps to assure their peace-of-mind as they seek us out for colocation, connectivity, managed services and now, our full-featured cloud service. Our SOC 2 examination clearly sets us apar…Tim Caulfield, CEOAIS
We had reached a critical point with our IT infrastructure where we had to make a decision on expanding our current facility or partnering with an enterprise-level data center. We were impressed with the Lightwave facility, the policies and procedures AIS has in place, like its ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) service architecture, and its knowledgeable staff. We feel AIS has mapped out a solid solution that can expand to meet our future business needs.Chris Rousseau, SVP global information technologyCallaway Golf
We are delighted to be working inside the AIS data center to provide full service managed storage to enterprise clients. We understand the importance of Phoenix in the disaster recovery market and have the processes, systems and culture in place to become a seamless extension of the IT services team for any sized organization.John Nash, CEO and founderPhreedom Technologies
Besides our native hot standby resiliency, our enterprise customers value the geographic redundancy we provide with AIS data centers in San Diego and Phoenix. We over-engineer to handle peak traffic and have the ability to offer business continuity with redundant databases and load balancing between sites. The bottom line is we are operating with the fault tolerance of a world class service provider, which is an important consideration for the Fortune 500 enterprises we are working with.Lance Fried, CEOHold-Free Networks
AIS BusinessCloud1 is a powerful platform that provides us with resources on demand with the right combination of security, connectivity, and control. The tremendous cost savings of nearly $150,000 in capital equipment alone was a huge plus. We also appreciate the point and click simplicity.Matthew Diener, IT managerleading analytics platform provider
We were seeking a reliable partner in the United States who had the infrastructure, the procedures, the know-how and a willingness to work with us to create a solution that’s truly tailored to our needs. The team at AIS mapped out a hybrid cloud infrastructure that made sense and could be implemented in a way that eases the burden of support on our end. In effect, we feel AIS is an extension of our business.Sridhar Reddy, CEOCtrlS Datacenters
The cloud I/O of AIS BusinessCloud1 has significantly exceeded our expectations compared to a standard server cluster that is both more expensive to deploy and maintain. By partnering with AIS, Diagnomics has achieved flexibility that is required so that genome annotation can take the next step towards delivering on the vision of personalized medicine.Min Lee, CEODiagnomics
Our customers have been looking for ways to smoothly and cost-effectively migrate to the cloud without the burden and costs associated with implementation. With our BusinessCloud1 service, customers can gain immediate access to and deploy cloud resources that have been built to the highest standards of performance and availability, at an extremely affordable price point.Tim Caulfield, CEOAIS