By Caron Carlson in FierceCIO covering Mikael Ricknas’ article in InfoWorld (also re-posted below). As indicated in other blog posts, AIS encourages customers and prospects to evaluate new service options with eyes wide open, especially when it comes to the cloud. The allure of better / faster / cheaper needs to be balanced with a healthy dose of reality. Buyer …
Companies Spend 7% on Average for BC / DR
Article by Verne Kopytoff from the San Francisco Chronicle. Disaster Recovery (DR) is a key driver for why many business use an external data center service provider. For many of our San Diego customers, Phoenix is their DR site — and vice versa. This stat caught my eye: “Companies will spend an average of 7 percent of their IT budgets …
Transforming the CIO: Here Go Hell Come!
This contributed piece was posted in CIO Journal on WSJ.com. A bit of motherhood and academic platitudes, but good reminders nonetheless. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– Five Steps to Build CIO Relevancy CIOs today face a crucial choice: drive IT to become more responsive to customer needs, regardless of the difficulty, or risk losing strategic relevance. …
HIMSS Survey Results re: Healthcare Privacy, Security
I picked up the article below by Dan Bowman in FierceHealthIT. While directly related to healthcare, the increasing focus on data privacy and network security could equally apply to other organizations such as banking and financial services, technology, e-retailing, and more. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —————– HIMSS: Hospitals spending more to ensure data privacy, …
AWS SLA: OMG ROFL
By Caron Carlson in FierceCIO covering an article by Brandon Butler in Network World (also re-posted below). Considering AWS for your cloud? Please read below and also check out AIS CTO Steve Wallace’s recent blog post. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —————- Gartner: AWS, HP have worst cloud SLAs The award for the “worst SLA” …
Savvis CIO Survey
We respect Savvis; it’s a great company helping lead the data center services industry forward. AIS CEO Tim Caulfield was an executive at Savvis. The Dec. 7 press release below highlights some key findings that affect all of us in the Enterprise IT business; here are three: Two thirds of industry frontrunners admit to unnecessary infrastructure purchases. CIOs now say …
Smart Customers, Cloudy Risks
I love articles from Bill Kleyman in Data Center Knowledge: brief, concise, topical, not too technical, and not too fluffy — just right. The one below elucidates common fears / concerns / risks about cloud computing. One might ask, “Geez, why is the AIS marketing guy re-posting an article about risks in the cloud? Isn’t that the opposite of what …
99 Problems (But the CFO Ain’t One)
Great article by Stephanie Overby in CIO on practical advice for how to “speak the language” of financial stakeholders regarding IT outsourcing projects. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– 9 Ways to Sell Your IT Outsourcing Plan to the CFO CFOs are becoming increasingly involved in corporate IT outsourcing decisions. However, the CIO team doesn’t …
UPDATED Holiday Community Volunteer Opportunities
Updated list as of Dec 7. Originally posted here on Nov 30. ———– Community involvement is important to employees at AIS. I’ve been meeting with the staff and volunteers over at the United Way over the past couple of weeks in order to determine the most effective ways for us to contribute. With the holidays approaching, the folks at United …
HBR Blog: De-Centralizing the Management of Corporate Data
With the growing trends of BYOD (bring your own device), SaaS (software as a service), and cloud services in general, I felt the blog post below from Thomas Redman, Ph.D., in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network was topical. Just as IT services in general are becoming less centralized within organizations, so too will the policies that affect how applications …
