Posted by Brian Wood on April 27, 2013 in Past Events
April 25-26, 2013 | Hotel Valley Ho
6850 East Main Street
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
Throughout the Life Science industry, forward-thinking corporations are leveraging advancements in technology throughout their organizations in order to create streamlined operating procedures, lower risk, and ultimately reduce costs.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 25, 2013 in Past Events
April 24, 2013 | 12:30pm – 6:00pm
Scottsdale Hilton Resort and Villas
6333 North Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85250
Arizona Technology Council (AZTC) and Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC) present the 2013 Arizona Health & Medical Technology (AZHMT) Expo.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 23, 2013 in Blog
Tim McElligott of FierceBigData summarizes a recent report from McKinsey analyzing how the healthcare industry can reduce spending and improve patient outcomes by extracting information via big data.
A few notable points:
Fiscal concerns are driving the demand for big-data applications
Health care expenses now represent 17.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 9, 2013 in Blog
Big Data + Bioinformatics = growth, hype, opportunity, risks, chatter, noise, funding, start-ups, confusion.
The short summary / commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData below captures the current market state pretty well.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 7, 2013 in Past Events
March 7, 2013 | 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Janssen Labs
3210 Merryfield Row
San Diego, CA 92121
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Eat/drink/connect with 450+ business leaders from San Diego’s most innovative industries on March 7 at Connect with CONNECT.
Posted by Brian Wood on February 28, 2013 in Blog
Wow, lots of juicy (and relevant) buzzwords in this post: big data, cloud, and even genome analysis and DNA sequencing.
It’s almost as if the original article were written specific for the AIS audience — but it wasn’t.
Caron Carlson of FierceCIO summarized the original piece by Bob Violino in Baseline.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on February 26, 2013 in Blog
Bioinformatics is rapidly working its way into mainstream medical conversations, as the article below by Daniela Hernandez in Wired shows.
It won’t be long before easy access to personalized genomics data is as accessible on your smartphone as turn-by-turn navigation directions.
AIS is helping advance genomics sequencing through ClearCompute, our “biotech SaaS workbench”.
Posted by Brian Wood on February 8, 2013 in Blog
451 Research produced the article below, which is an excellent summary of recent changes to HIPAA — and a solid reminder of why it is so important to understand, and have faith in, the compliance measures in place with your data center services provider.
Fret not, for AIS customers are in good hands.
Posted by Brian Wood on February 1, 2013 in Blog
This article reveals an interesting twist on the subject of big data and bioinformatics.
Caron Carlson from FierceCIO picked up on an article by Ed Yong in Nature about using actual DNA to store big data.
Posted by Brian Wood on January 30, 2013 in Blog
I picked up this post from FierceBiotech IT about a story by Chris Kanaracus in Computerworld regarding Hadoop and its use in big data applications (such as genomics).
Emphasis in red added by me.
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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
Completing the Service Organization Controls (SOC) process which provides verification by a third party of the validity and functionality of our control activities and processes, is an important step for AIS. Now that we have expanded our portfolio to include AIS BusinessCloud1, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), we are finding that more companies are seeking this additional level of compliance.Frank Gaff, chief compliance officerAIS
Our AppStack solution enables service providers and enterprise customers to move and manage complex cloud applications throughout their life cycle. That means we have deep first-hand knowledge of a wide variety of public and private clouds, as well as cloud orchestration platforms. After working closely with AIS to thoroughly test and implement our software and exhaustively stress-test AIS BusinessCloud1, our team at Appcara is quite impressed with the service. It is indeed a viable, enterprise-…John Yung, founder and CEOAppcara
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
Natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes, and man-made mayhem such as malware or even simple human error, are the types of events that can have devastating consequences for businesses that are reliant on mission-critical data and applications. With the one-year anniversary of the massive power outage that knocked out a large portion of Southern California upon us, we felt now was a great time to raise awareness of the need for DR planning and show how quickly and affordably …Tim Caulfield, CEOAIS
Since day one, we’ve been impressed with the Lightwave facility along with the quality of expertise and support we received from AIS. As our business continues to grow, it is comforting to know we have an infrastructure and managed services provider who we can work with as a partner to ensure we have the unsurpassed uptime, fast network and comprehensive levels of services we need to support our expanding customer base.Greg Vacca, presidentSaveDaily
By housing additional infrastructure in the AIS Phoenix data center, many of our fast-growing customers demands for services that require multiple facilities can finally be answered. We also needed additional colocation space, and we chose to continue growing with our trusted partner AIS by securing the additional footprint in Phoenix.Scheron Briones, vice president, engineeringColor Broadband
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 toured many facilities during our evaluation process and the AIS Lightwave Data Center was quite impressive. And with this being set up as the focal point of our critical communications infrastructure, we really wanted an experienced provider with a solid reputation. AIS hit high marks on all the things that mattered to us.Ed Soto, network administratorPhoenix Children’s Academy
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