AIS VP Data Center Operations & Critical Infrastructure Ken Carter walks us through the Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) in San Diego. Part 1 focuses on security, environmentals, and power.
Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) Video Tour, Part 2
AIS VP Data Center Operations & Critical Infrastructure Ken Carter walks us through the Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) in San Diego. Part 1 (click here) focused on security, environmentals, and power while Part 2 focuses on the colocation floor.
VMware Goes Direct with Public IaaS
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., high-performance) compute, storage, and …
AIS in Daily Transcript Article re: Cybersecurity
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. A group of technology professionals discussed the threats they face and how they avoid them …
Big Data Not “All That”?
News flash: big data is not sufficient to achieve pure efficiency or solve all business problems. Spoiler alert: big data is one tool among many in the business executive’s organizational arsenal. Opinion: people with insight and experience and street-smarts and common sense matter too. Summary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData, original opinion piece by Paul Thorley (CEO of Capgemini) in …
Nate Silver on Big Data
Nate Silver is a rock star. We’re often blind to our biases; big data helps surface the reality. Statistically speaking, Wednesday rules — Nate says so, and he’s a rock star. Summary article by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData and original article by Kurt Wagner in Fortune. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- Nate speaks, big …
Two Sides to Social Media and Big Data
Coins have two sides, both heads and tails — and as Bret Michaels from Poison reminds us, “Every rose has it’s thorn.” Such is the case with both social media and big data, which like any new technologies, discoveries, and applications may be used for good and less good. Summary and commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData; original article by …
Liquid Grids Chooses AIS for Cloud over Amazon Web Services
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. Download the Liquid Grids case study:
Sloppy Software: Serious Security Situation
You’d think we’d learn — that the feedback loop of “ouch, that hurts, not gonna do that again” would be in full effect. Well, uh, it seems that not everyone got the memo. (By the way, try searching for a “sloppy” image and see just how many photo variations of a certain type of edible dish come up — so …
New Way to Structure Outsourcing Contracts
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. …
