Posted by Administrator 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 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 April 19, 2013 in Blog
“There are no guarantees in life — except death and taxes.”
And data center SLAs (Service Level Agreements), of course.
Analyst Al Sadowski of 451 Research wrote the piece below on the evolution of SLAs.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Brian Wood, VP Marketing
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It’s Time for Service-Level Agreement 3.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 10, 2013 in Blog
Good news: Our market is growing!
The succinct DRT press release re-posted below has all the key takeaways highlighted in red (by me).
Posted by Brian Wood on April 5, 2013 in Blog
Cheer up, IT brothers and sisters! Your skills are in high demand!
This also means that everyone wants a piece of you.
This (hopefully) humorous post was written by Alistair Dabbs in The Register.
And hey, after you’re done reading this, will you please take a look at my machine? It’s not working quite right…
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 1, 2013 in Blog
Technology today is more than just a means to an end — rather, it determines much of the ambient environment in which knowledge workers “do their thing”.
If technology tool A is clunky and technology tool B doesn’t integrate well with technology tool C then I’m not only not going to be as productive as I could be — and I’m also not going to be as engaged and motivated in my job as I could be.
Posted by Steve Wallace on January 24, 2013 in Blog
Streaming media content (audio/music, video/movies, etc.) is a pretty familiar activity these days thanks to the explosion of broadband connections (cable modem and DSL).
Companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Pandora serve up content in a way that appears like a continuous connection — but behind the scenes, a lot is going on in order to make that happen.
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 Steve Wallace on November 30, 2012 in Blog
For any given use case, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has vastly superior resources and, given time and investment, could (and sometimes does) focus them to provide a superior solution.
The problem is that this type of focus — providing a customized solution – is not Amazon’s forte. Amazon has become what it is today through the strength of automation and standardization.
Posted by Brian Wood on November 16, 2012 in Blog
According to a recent survey by outsourcing analyst firm HfS Research, 63 percent of IT leaders would like to drop the term “outsourcing” to describe the IT services provided to them by third-parties and 68 percent of IT service providers want to do away with the designation.
Interested? Give us a call!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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