Hurricane Season Challenges Businesses to Get Serious About IT Disaster Recovery

Hurricane Season Challenges Businesses to Get Serious About IT Disaster Recovery, Look to the Cloud for Help in Avoiding Downtime, Data Loss Summary: Natural disasters pose a serious threat, leading to downtime and data loss for businesses and governments. This hurricane season, hosting pioneer AIS Network is advising organizations to safeguard their sensitive data and … Read more

PRIMER: How are Disaster Recovery and Backups Different?

So, you are working through your go-forward IT strategy and need to make sure that you have things covered should something go wrong. Pretty quickly, you notice that the terms “Backup” and “Disaster Recovery” are quite often being used interchangeably. But, the truth is, they are different. Related, yes, but different. How are disaster recovery … Read more

Hosting SharePoint 2013 Saves Money

By Laurie Head AIS Network VP, Marketing Communications   In-house IT costs are soaring. Why spend money on SharePoint servers? Hosting SharePoint 2013 saves you money and worry. In belt-tightening times, the combined expense of SharePoint 2010 servers, technical staff and data security can be painful to a company. Why have the IT staff spend … Read more

What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

By Donna Hemmert AIS Network Vice President, Strategic Development If you don’t want to own the equipment that supports your operations, and want increased flexibility, especially when it comes to expanding or downsizing, you may want to consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)** from a provider such as AISN. In contrast to having to purchase … Read more

AIS Network Hires Joshua Darrin as Director of Operations

Summary: AIS Network has hired Joshua Darrin as Director of Operations. Darrin will report directly to CTO Kurt Baumann and will be working on many projects, including the expansion of network operations in Virginia and Illinois. Reston, VA — January 22, 2013 — AIS Network, a leading provider of fully managed enterprise-class hosting, today announced it … Read more

Welcome, Josh Darrin!

By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO If you’ve seen a new face at AIS Network, be sure to welcome him.  We have added Josh Darrin to our team as Director of Operations.  Josh has been helping us as a contractor on many operational issues as part of network operation initiatives, additional compliances and many important projects that … Read more

Congratulations to Terry Engelstad, New AIS Network VP

By Kurt Baumann AIS Network Chairman and CTO Congratulations to Terry Engelstad on his promotion at AIS Network. Today, we announced the promotion of Terry Engelstad to the position of VP of Network Operations. It”s a much deserved promotion, as Terry has been such an important part of all our recent growth.  Terry started with AISN in 2007 and … Read more

AIS Network Names Terry Engelstad as Vice President of Network Operations

AIS Network Names Terry Engelstad as Vice President of Network Operations Summary: AIS Network promotes Terry Engelstad to the position of Vice President of Network Operations. AISN is a leader in managed hosting for mission-critical applications for public and private sector organizations with demanding security and compliance requirements. Reston, VA — January 15, 2013 — … Read more

AIS Network Receives SOC 1 Type II Attestation Report

Reston, VA — January 10, 2013 — AIS Network, a leading provider of fully managed enterprise-class hosting, today announced that it has completed its semi-annual SOC 1 (Service Organization Control) Type II audit.  This certification attestation verifies that AISN has the proper internal controls and processes in place to deliver high-quality services to its clients. … Read more

Understanding AISN’s SharePoint Hosting Plans

By Bill Peters AIS Network, Director of Business Development Whether you choose cloud hosting or more traditional managed hosting for your SharePoint, you should feel 100% confident about the security, safety and reliability of your hosting environment. Not only does AISN extend to you the benefits of the latest Microsoft collaboration solutions, but we also … Read more