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 ———- The Cloudy Horizon for 2013: 10 Predictions What’s ahead in cloud computing for 2013? 1. Cloud Will …
451 Research Article on AIS
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. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– American Internet Services update American Internet Services (AIS) is a multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) provider that offers colocation, cloud services, disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC), bioinformatics analytics, professional services and managed …
Illumina, Life Technologies, Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is hot, and firms partnering / collaborating on bioinformatics is even hotter. The FierceBiotechIT article below — and the source article from Bio-IT World — recount what two of the main players (Illumina and Life Technologies, both based in San Diego) are doing in the space. Check out our own ClearCompute Software as a Service (SaaS) offering to understand …
Got a Disaster Recovery Site? Choose AIS in Phoenix, AZ
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. With a properly-provisioned Disaster Recovery site, there is never a need for your business to “go …
Disaster Recovery <> Business Continuity
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.) then the backup site can take over, either at 100% capacity or some lesser “must have” amount deemed adequate for …
Audited Compliance Counts: SSAE 16 and SOC Reports
This is a GREAT article by Liam Eagle in WHIR (Web Host Industry Review) — very relevant and very timely for businesses evaluating their IT services strategy. To be clear, AIS is unique in the Southwestern US in having ALL THREE SOC AUDITS completed: SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3. Read more here. Emphasis in red added by me. …
FEI Article: What CFOs Want From IT
The following article was in the January 2013 issue of the FEI (Financial Executives International) San Diego Chapter Newsletter. Short and sweet, which is ironic because our own CFO, Kevin O’Hare, is tall and a wee bit saucy. I’m just sayin’. The important take-away regarding cloud services is that one size does not fit all — so there’s no need …
451 Research Insights on Cloud Computing
The following are sections from the recent 451 Research articles on “2013 Preview: Cloud Computing” parts 1 and 2 by analysts William Fellows, Agatha Poon, Rory Duncan, and Katy Ring. I’ve selected the parts most relevant to the AIS audience. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– 2013 Preview – Cloud Computing Cloud computing is the …
Gartner Raises 2013 WW IT Spending Forecast
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2013 Worldwide IT spending in 2013 will increase by 4.2 percent from 2012, totaling $3.7 trillion, according to the forecast released on Thursday by Gartner. Gartner has improved its outlook on global IT spend for 2013, which it predicted to increase only 3.8 percent in its forecast released in Q3 …
Virtualization & Cloud, Peaches & Honey
Virtualization and cloud computing offer tremendous economic and operational benefits, whether the deployments be public, private, or hybrid in nature. As the article below from Wall Street & Technology describes, Citigroup was able to consolidate from 70 to 20 data centers — and could even go down to 10 — by leveraging virtualization and increasing utilization. Most firms do not …
