Posted by Brian Wood on June 14, 2013 in Past Events
June 12-14, 2013 | San Diego Convention Center
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California. The birthplace of the biotechnology industry and home to the largest and most productive concentration of life science companies in the world.
Over the years, our focus has remained constant – discover the next great thing and turn it into reality.
Posted by Brian Wood on June 7, 2013 in Blog
This is a short but practical (and relevant) article on a survey conducted by NaviSite.
The contents speak for themselves.
Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on June 6, 2013 in Blog
Ah fear and inertia, the bane of me an all my sales-and-marketing brothers and sisters out there.
Fear of change, fear of the unknown, and prospective customers’ reluctance to try something other beyond the devil that we know.
And because perception is reality (for many), this is a real issue that must be overcome.
Posted by Brian Wood on June 3, 2013 in Blog
I love this article because I love this philosophy.
Simple, straightforward, results-oriented. Bing bang boom.
Less is more.
Summary article by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, original post by Larry Bonfante (CIO of the USTA) in CIO Insight.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 31, 2013 in Blog
Here’s a great article from 451 Research analysts Owen Rogers and William Fellows about cloud pricing.
Using hotel rooms as the analogy, they make clear all the variations available from the dozens of cloud providers hawking service.
To be explicit, AIS offers both Pay-As-You-Go and Allocated pricing models for BusinessCloud1 — including a hybrid between the two.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 30, 2013 in Blog
McDonald’s and Starbucks are ubiquitous.
McDonald’s and Starbucks serve the masses.
McDonald’s and Starbucks are the gorillas of their categories.
Even so, McDonald’s and Starbucks are not for everyone.
Some prefer Burger Lounge, In-N-Out, or Five Guys — or Peet’s or The Coffee Bean.
And some prefer AIS for cloud services. (See the Liquid Grids presentation for a specific example.
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 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 10, 2013 in Blog
“Where are we going?”
“What are our priorities?”
“Why aren’t we doing X?”
“Why are we doing Y?”
Summary post by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO and original article by Andrew Horne in the Corporate Executive Board.
Emphasis in red added by me.
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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
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 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
AIS provided the highest quality network in the area and colocation space with more than enough power to meet our requirements. I have used AIS services in some form or shape over the last 15 years, and not once have I ever regretted that!Joseph Manis, ownerCaliHop
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
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
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
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
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