This just in — the latest AIS infographic! The computer has become one of the most ubiquitous tools in everyday life, but supercomputers blow even the most advanced desktops out of the water. Comprised of tens of thousands of processors working in conjunction, supercomputers are capable of crunching numbers at astounding speeds. These massive machines perform quadrillions of calculations per …
InfoGraphic: History of Web Hosting
I saw the massive infographic below in The WHIR and figured our readers would like it too. Enjoy, Brian ——— ProfitBricks Infographic: Web Hosting from 1995 to Today ProfitBricks is an infrastructure as a service company with serious hosting chops: the company was started by the founders of web hosting giant 1&1 Internet, and hosting veterans William Toll and Clint Miller …
Walking the Talk: USTA CIO Keeps it Real
I love this article because I love this philosophy. Simple, straightforward, results-oriented. Bing bang boom. Less is more. Summary article by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, original post by Larry Bonfante (CIO of the USTA) in CIO Insight. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——— 4 budget management principles to get them eating out of your hand …
Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) Video Tour, Part 1
AIS VP Data Center Operations & Critical Infrastructure Ken Carter walks us through the Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) in San Diego. Part 1 focuses on security, environmentals, and power.
Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) Video Tour, Part 2
AIS VP Data Center Operations & Critical Infrastructure Ken Carter walks us through the Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) in San Diego. Part 1 (click here) focused on security, environmentals, and power while Part 2 focuses on the colocation floor.
New Way to Structure Outsourcing Contracts
I like the ideas in the article below: progressive, mutual, results-based. It will certainly take time to get entrenched players to “trust” (but verify, of course), but I applaud the concept of always needing to show value and earn your next paycheck. Summary by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO; original by Stephanie Overby in CIO. Emphasis in red added by me. …
Info-Graphic: World’s 5 Largest Data Centers
I’m pleased to present a new info-graphic from AIS. Enjoy and share! Brian Wood, VP of Marketing
IT Projects: Must They Always Go Wrong? (No!)
IT guys (and gals) are the lifeblood of our company and of our clients’ companies — which is why I pay attention to articles that pass along wisdom about the IT profession. Because IT pervades nearly everything we do in a networked economy, the nature of many IT projects is that they are big. And big is not necessarily beautiful …
Effort vs. Results: How CIOs Can (and Should) Be Thinking
Part of the value proposition of any data center and cloud service provider such as AIS comes from the “make vs. buy” discussion: Why build something yourself when you can get it more efficiently from someone else? The objective is the delivered outcome (results), not the process of how it’s made to happen (effort). Similarly, the post below discusses the …
The Evolution of Service-Level Agreements
“There are no guarantees in life — except death and taxes.” And data center SLAs (Service Level Agreements), of course. Analyst Al Sadowski of 451 Research wrote the piece below on the evolution of SLAs. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —————- It’s Time for Service-Level Agreement 3.0 Ask any buyer, and they will tell you …
