The following links to the second in a series of articles by Bill Kleyman from Data Center Knowledge called “Data Center Knowledge Guide to Colocation Selection”. We re-posted links to the first article here, part three here, part four here, and part five here. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– In last week’s article series …
Hurricane Sandy Update re: Datacenter Status
We at AIS have definitely been paying close attention to how our “brothers in arms” at other data centers on the East Coast have fared during and after Hurricane Sandy. The 451 Research article below summarizes the status of many high-profile facilities. We send our best wishes to those who have experienced setbacks large and small. Hang in there, folks, …
SDDT Article: Cloud is Future of Computing Despite Security Concerns
The following article about the recent CommNexus Security SIG (Special Interest Group) event held at AIS was published in The Daily Transcript. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——————— Cloud is Future of Computing Despite Security Concerns The concept of the technological “cloud,” a term that is at once confusing and ubiquitous, has been around for …
Survey: Businesses Use Only 49% of On-Premise Server Capacity
This press release comes from ElasticHosts and was referenced by a blog post from David Linthicum in InfoWorld (reposted on the AIS website here). While originating across the pond, in my opinion the information is equally valuable for us here. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —————- 83% of companies frustrated by ‘fake clouds’ New research …
InfoWeek: When “The Cloud” Is Not The Cloud
Great blog post by David Linthicum in InfoWorld about calling a spade a spade — and poseurs trying to jump on the marketing hype bandwagon. Truth in labeling, truth in advertising, truth in marketing. So fair’s fair: how does AIS rate in your book? In your opinion are AIS BusinessCloud1 and AIS ClearCompute truly cloud service offerings? You make the …
AIS ClearCompute featured in San Diego Business Journal
Biotechs Look Into Clouds for High-Powered Computing Services Tools Help Genomics Researchers Analyze Terabytes of Data By Mike Allen, San Diego Business Journal As drug discovery and life sciences companies delve deeply into dissecting the mysteries of human genomes, they’re using faster and more powerful computers. Given the trend of many of these businesses to outsourcing non-core operations, it was inevitable that …
DCK Guide to Colocation Selection
The following links to the first in a series of articles by Bill Kleyman from Data Center Knowledge called “Data Center Knowledge Guide to Colocation Selection”. A link to part two is re-posted here, part three is here, part four is here and part five is here. I’ll keep adding future segments as they are published online. Emphasis in red …
SDDT Article: Cybersecurity Calls on Small Businesses
The Daily Transcript recently conducted a cybersecurity roundtable discussion with particular focus on San Diego’s prime demographic, the “small business” — especially with regard to doing business with the government. Upshot: the whole “weakest link of the chain” analogy applies. In other words, if you’re relatively unsophisticated cybersecurity-wise but you do business with much larger, more target-rich entities (e.g., government), …
Gartner Execs Talk Security
Security is a key focus area for AIS and our clients. The article below, taken from InformationWeek, outlines some of the latest thoughts from executives at Gartner. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— Play Offense On Security In 2013: Gartner Enterprises can’t count on defensive security strategies any more, Gartner execs tell IT leaders at …
AIS In the News: Appcara Press Release
Appcara Announces AppStack Release 3 A Model-Driven Platform For Streamlined Deployment of Legacy and New Apps into Any Cloud Cloud application platform vendor Appcara announced a major new version of its AppStack application and portability platform, AppStack Release 3, that helps enterprises accelerate legacy applications into the cloud, and to enable service providers to offer a rich set of application …
