By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO More companies are shifting from on-premise computing to cloud-based services, and that means cloud providers are attaining sales goals earlier than expected. It’s plain to see why Forrester Research analysts are predicting that the private cloud market will double to more than $15 billion in 2020. At AIS Network, … Read more
To review: In June 2011, Microsoft released Office 365, essentially bundled online software hosted in the cloud. Office 365 replaced Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) and bundled the latest upgrades of its SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync Server solutions. So, when you hear “SharePoint Online,” that means SharePoint as it is presented in Office 365, … Read more
GUEST BLOG By Michael V. Velotta Founder, Intelishift Technologies Last month, a prospective client asked a very good question related to the performance of his hosted SharePoint deployment. The hosted SharePoint environment that he currently has deployed across North America, Western Europe and India is very slow. Latency is an issue – 20 seconds to … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President We’ve blogged about CPAs and the cloud and how IT literacy is important within the financial services sector, but we haven’t really addressed the fact that MOST of our financial services clients are using our SSAE 16 Type II-compliant hosted SharePoint 2010. Why? Quite simply, hosted SharePoint improves … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO This week, we remember Randall Ford, who succumbed to a lengthy battle with cancer on Sunday. He believed in the AISN mission and was instrumental in this phase of its growth. But most importantly, he was an encourager, a mentor, and a friend. Randall Leon Ford was born in … Read more
GUEST BLOG By Gaige B. Paulsen Board of Advisors, AIS Network For companies that primarily do business through their public-facing Internet site, best practices for production, staging and development are imperative. For any Web-based business, whether e-commerce or presence-based, it is essential that content and systems be updated to remain competitive, which means change and … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President ASAE’s Technology Conference and Expo is here in Washington, DC, from December 6-8, 2011. It sparked an idea for this week’s blog: why SharePoint 2010 fits the needs of associations and nonprofits so well. Increasingly, nonprofits and associations are turning to hosting companies like ours for help in … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President In Anaheim, at the Microsoft SharePoint 2011 Conference, Rob Koplowitz, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, unveiled the results of a Forrester survey on “Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration.” The survey had been conducted in July and included responses from “510 IT decision-makers involved … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO Goodbye, SAS 70. Hello, SSAE 16. SSAE 16? That’s somewhat new terminology among hosting providers and their customers and investors. SSAE 16 certification has officially replaced the SAS 70 certification process. This week, AIS Network announces its favorable completion of the SSAE 16 Type II audit, which was conducted … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Wondering whether your law firm’s new hosted SharePoint 2010 deployment will be disruptive to the office culture? Significant key benefits for IT staff as well as legal staff and their clients may very well justify the trouble and cost of deploying SharePoint 2010 in a legal environment. What’s … Read more