Music to our ears: the big guys continue to create awareness of, and demand for, public cloud services. Don’t just be a lemming, though — we encourage you to do your own homework and look before you leap into any cloud. Our own AIS BusinessCloud1 has a number of significant advantages over the so-called cheap-and-cheerful offerings from the gorillas. Don’t …
AIS Customer Announcement from CtrlS Datacenters
(Ed: AIS first announced CtrlS Datacenters as a customer on August 28, 2012). CtrlS marks international expansion with US data center New facility in San Diego brings new avenue for international expansion for Indian customers, CEO says Indian data center operator and managed services provider CtrlS Datacenters, which owns some of Asia’s largest Tier IV data centers, has launched its …
Data Center Market Continues to Grow (DRT)
Good news: Our market is growing! The succinct DRT press release re-posted below has all the key takeaways highlighted in red (by me). Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– Digital Realty Announces Results Of Annual North American Data Center Demand Survey Independent study commissioned by Digital Realty indicates continued strong growth driven by industry demand for increased security, energy efficiency, new …
Big Data + Bioinformatics = Read This
Big Data + Bioinformatics = growth, hype, opportunity, risks, chatter, noise, funding, start-ups, confusion. The short summary / commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData below captures the current market state pretty well. AIS’ angle? ClearCompute, our bioinformatics software as a service offering to empower genetic researchers to do much of the heavy lifting and only pay for the resources they …
Audit & Compliance: Bringing Sexy Back
Audit and compliance roles are not yet the most sexy, sought-after jobs in the market… but the post below indicates that such folks are becoming more strategic (or at least have the potential to become more strategic) in their organizations. By Jim Kim in FierceComplianceIT. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————— Chief audit executives eye …
Hey IT Guy, Got a Minute?
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 …
Cybersecurity Market Growth: 18% CAGR
Good news! The cybersecurity market is growing at 18% CAGR. Bad news! The reason the market is growing so fast is due to the growing pace of DDoS attacks, spam, malware, botnets, and so on. Read the summary article below by Justin Lee in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— Global Market for …
AIS in SDDT: More companies opt to outsource IT
By TIERNEY PLUMB, The Daily Transcript Monday, April 1, 2013 Information technology is, at some point or another, a key enabler for just about any organization today — whether it’s a startup or Fortune 500 company. That’s the consensus of a group of technology executives who recently gathered at The Daily Transcript for a roundtable discussion sponsored by American Internet …
Where Should IT Security Resources Be Deployed?
Ask a bunch of IT folks where security resources should be deployed — on networks or on servers. What do they think? Read below. Summary by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, original article by Jon Oltsik in Network World. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——————– Security pros focus on networks over servers When it comes to …
CIOs Play Key Role in Employee Engagement
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 …
