February 2014 Newsletter — After the Olympics

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And now a word from our sponsor… Comments from CEO Greg Rollet Dear Valued Clients, Thanks for being our customer. All of us at AIS recognize your central importance to our mission, which is to provide innovative & trusted enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions that enable you to focus on your core business. What we’ve accomplished on your behalf in the …

Half Empty? Overcoming Doubt Within IT

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Don’t let the naysayers get you down. Prudence is smart, pessimism is self-fulfilling. Opinion piece by David Weldon of FierceCIO. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Overcoming a crisis of confidence In the course of any given week I read a lot of headlines and articles about the IT industry and workforce. And I have …

6 Surveys Reveal Downtime Causes, Costs

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As any kid knows, staying up is good — especially if it involves a fun movie and dessert. As any IT professional knows, going down is bad — very bad, especially if revenue generation is affected. Below is a summary of recent surveys that reveal some of our collective fears and opportunities. There’s no time like the present to improve …

Infographic: IPv6 Migration, IPv4 Depletion

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A finite, non-renewable resource in high demand will eventually be depleted. IPv4 addresses are in this category. Predictions are that December of 2014 is when ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers, the entity that manages the distribution of Internet number resources, including IPv4 and IPv6 address space and AS numbers) will have no more IPv4 addresses to allocate. Good news: …

CyberSecurity Framework — It’s ALIVE!

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Learn it, live it, love it. Post it, share it, like it. Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– US Launches Voluntary Cybersecurity Framework to Protect Nation’s Critical Infrastructure The Obama administration has launched the first version of its cybersecurity framework, a voluntary program designed to help protect critical …

Comcast to Chomp Time Warner

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In case you hadn’t already heard the news… Article by David Hamilton in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— Comcast’s Plans to Buy Time Warner Cable Problematic for Internet Users, Web Hosts Comcast has agreed to buy competitor Time Warner Cable in a deal that would give the combined company vast control over …

HP’s Take on the Status of CyberSecurity

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Good news! We have new data from Hewlett-Packard on the state of the cyber union. Bad news! The new data from HP is deceptively positive. Not that HP is being deceiving — they’re most decidedly not — but rather the apparent decline in reported security vulnerabilities flies in the face of our everyday experience and is hence cause for concern. …

Which Cloud Are You? Public vs. Private

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There’s more to a book than its cover and there’s more to a rose than its name — and there’s more to a cloud than its public or private label. All animals are equal but some are more equal than others. Choose wisely. By Adam Stern in Cloud Times. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- …

Hospital CIOs Balance Data Security with Accessibility

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Goldilocks wanted it her way: Not too hot, not too cold — just right. A hospital CIO wants it her way too: Not too strict, not too permissive — just right. Finding that balance is a whole lot harder when there is more than just one tongue to satisfy. By Andrew Litt, M.D., in ComputerWorld. Emphasis in red added by …

Costs Down. Flexibility Up. Reliability…?

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The uber-available, “dial-tone guaranteed” landline phone network will soon be a relic of the past. It’s MUCH less expensive to run a VoIP network. And so too will we say goodbye to the implicit (high) service availability guarantees long associated with ILEC services. Thus begins a new era when customers start thinking about availability and quality of service rather than …