Posted by Brian Wood on January 29, 2013 in Press Releases
Serial Entrepreneur Michael Robertson’s “DVR for Radio” Service to Benefit from Enhanced Quality and Extreme Reliability Provided by AIS Network Connectivity
SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 29, 2013 – AIS (American Internet Services), a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, cloud, and connectivity services, today announced that DAR.
Posted by Brian Wood on January 17, 2013 in Blog
Excerpts from the 2013 prediction article titled “The Cloudy Horizon for 2013: 10 Predictions” by Jason Verge in Data Center Knowledge.
The full article is available on the Data Center Knowledge website.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Brian Wood, VP Marketing
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The Cloudy Horizon for 2013: 10 Predictions
What’s ahead in cloud computing for 2013?
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Posted by Brian Wood on January 16, 2013 in Blog
451 Research analyst Glenn Ford wrote the excellent piece below summarizing AIS data center service offerings.
This is a must-read!
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on January 15, 2013 in Blog
One of the many lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy is the importance of a solid Disaster Recovery plan for IT services.
This means having an alternate data center that serves as a backup / secondary site in case your primary goes down.
No Problem.
Posted by Brian Wood on January 15, 2013 in Blog
Disaster Recovery is a common “application” for data center customers: having a secondary IT infrastructure site, typically geographically diverse, so that if the primary site goes down (say, due to hurricane, earthquake, tornado, power outage, Murphy’s Law, planned maintenance, etc.
Posted by Brian Wood on January 8, 2013 in Blog
451 Research continues to provide excellent commentary and analysis for our collective entry into 2013.
The article below, developed by analysts Jeff Paschke, Kelly Morgan, Jim Grogan, Stefanie Beaubien, and Rick Kurtzbein, is a great overview of our own space, known as the MTDC (multi-tenant datacenter) market.
Posted by Brian Wood on December 26, 2012 in Blog
Great article from analyst Glenn Ford from 451 Research talking about the real impact of a client moving data centers.
Living so much in the virtual world as we do, it’s often easy to forget that a physical swap-out is far harder than just “Control Z”, reposition cursor, “Control V”.
The considerations below are important to keep in mind when selecting a data center to begin with.
Posted by Brian Wood on December 17, 2012 in Blog
Article by Verne Kopytoff from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a key driver for why many business use an external data center service provider. For many of our San Diego customers, Phoenix is their DR site — and vice versa.
Posted by Brian Wood on December 3, 2012 in Blog
Data center service providers are always on the lookout for great talent, which is one reason why we know how difficult it is for enterprises to hire in-house IT staff. (BTW: Why hire? Choose AIS instead.)
The article below — written by Bill Kleyman in Data Center Knowledge — outlines many of the desired attributes of the ideal candidate for cloud architect.
Posted by Brian Wood on November 26, 2012 in Blog
451 Research wrote this article which, boiled down, is about the silliness of investing in the re-creation of resources that already exist.
“We must build it, we must own it, this is how it is done” (my words) is definitely NOT how IT is done these days.
Less Make, More Buy — but it seems the folks at the City of Largo were not thinking along these lines.
Interested? Give us a call!
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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