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 …
Official VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Edge Gateway Video
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Big Data, Big Pharma, Smart Analysis…and ClearCompute
The article below by Ryan McBride from FierceBiotech IT covers an original piece from Guy Cavet of Kaggle in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). We at AIS agree that bioinformatics is transforming the nature of genetic and pharmaceutical research — which is why we launched AIS ClearCompute to empower bioinformatics scientists to do their work in an affordable, secure, …
Bioinformatics Market: 25% CAGR Over Next 6 Years
The report below (originally produced by Transparency Market Research and reported / summarized by FierceBiotech IT) confirms what we already know from our cloud computing and colocation customers: bioinformatics is big. It also underscores why we launched AIS ClearCompute: massive growth, massive scale, massive flexibility, massive awesomeness. Let us know if you’d like to know more about how AIS ClearCompute …
Cloud Architects: the New Rock Stars?
Data center service providers are always on the lookout for great talent, which is one reason why we know how difficult it is for enterprises to hire in-house IT staff. (BTW: Why hire? Choose AIS instead.) The article below — written by Bill Kleyman in Data Center Knowledge — outlines many of the desired attributes of the ideal candidate for …
The CTO Speaks: AWS vs. AIS BusinessCloud1
For any given use case, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has vastly superior resources and, given time and investment, could (and sometimes does) focus them to provide a superior solution. The problem is that this type of focus — providing a customized solution — is not Amazon’s forte. Amazon has become what it is today through the strength of automation and standardization. …
Cloud Security and Service Agreements
I saw this article by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, which is written in regard to another article in Network World by Brandon Butler covering Gartner cloud security analyst Jay Heiser; both articles are re-posted below. The reason I felt them worth re-posting is because security is often cited as a concern about moving to cloud services. The tack of the …
Article: Amazon and the Enterprise Cloud
This article comes courtesy of GigaOm and illustrates that cloud services are being used by enterprises more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us all believe. Good news: AIS cloud services — AIS BusinessCloud1 and AIS ClearCompute — are available for Southwestern enterprise customers now. Click on the link to learn more. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, …
CIO Survey: More Outsourcing, Less Hardware
The article below is from ZDnet in October and recounts the results from a CIO survey. Nearly half of respondents indicated rising budgets in 2012 and 2013 with productivity and cost reduction being the top concerns. IT budgets represented nearly 5% of revenue in 2012 — up from nearly 4% in the previous two years. Spending on in-house hardware, network, …
Article: Bioinformatics Called Critical to Next-Generation DNA Sequencing
In addition to being a fairly succinct and self-evident article from FierceHealthIT, there are some really great vocabulary words in here: multigigabase concomitantly armamentarium All jest aside, the need for cloud computing in bioinformatics is real — and rising. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– Laboratories that want to run next-generation sequencing (NGS) of DNA …
