Caron Carlson of FierceCIO highlighted the Network World article below about the surprising prevalence of unauthorized cloud implementations found throughout 83% of enterprises surveyed by Symantec. Wow, that’s huge. Think about it: 83% of businesses in a large survey pool (>3,200 IT managers) have “rogue clouds” provisioned without IT’s awareness. While we at AIS are definitely keen on promoting the …
DCK Cloud Predictions for 2013
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 …
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 …
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 …
451 Research Predicts MTDC Growth
451 Research continues to provide excellent commentary and analysis for our collective entry into 2013. The article below, developed by analysts Jeff Paschke, Kelly Morgan, Jim Grogan, Stefanie Beaubien, and Rick Kurtzbein, is a great overview of our own space, known as the MTDC (multi-tenant datacenter) market. Bottom line: positive outlook for firms like AIS based on the fundamentals of …
Caveat Emptor: Let the (AWS) Buyer Beware
Over the past few months we’ve posted a few articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the key differences with (and advantages of) AIS BusinessCloud1; here are three: AWS SLA: OMG ROFL The CTO Speaks: AWS vs. AIS BusinessCloud1 Article: Amazon and the Enterprise Cloud In the spirit of fair and balanced blogging, I figured it would be intellectually honest …
Cloud Fact & Cloud Fiction
Below is a short-and-concise commentary on the truths and myths of cloud computing written by Matt Zieg of Emerson Network Power and published in Data Center Journal. The usual topics are covered: adoption rates, security, responsibility, cost, control, Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– Separating Fact From Fiction in Cloud Computing Do Common Cloud Assumptions …
Amazon Stubs Cloud Toe — Again, and Again….
I wouldn’t be surprised if customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) are placing a fresh new item at the very top of their New Year’s Resolutions lists: “Get a new cloud provider — one that’s reliable, stable, dependable, and won’t cause me prematurely gray hair or drive me to drink.” It’s not asking too much, is it? The services you …
SRG: Cloud Revenues Growing 65% Annually
Press release from Synergy Research Group on cloud growth rate and various market share leaders. Infrastructure and Platform as a Service have doubled from 6% to 12% in total data center infrastructure market. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——————- IaaS and PaaS Revenues Growing at 65% per Year RENO, NV–(Marketwire – Dec 11, 2012) – …
