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
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President, Marketing Communications I’m hooked on the idea of boosting PR, marketing and advertising agency productivity through unified communications, collaboration platforms and cloud computing. As a former PR executive specializing in tech PR for a large, global agency and later a DC-based boutique firm, I can see clearly how … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network, VP Marketing Communications By 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets. —projection from Gartner, Inc., “Gartner’s Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond” What is the value add of managed hosting in today’s market? Quite simply, today’s managed hosting companies are putting the IT service … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 has officially kicked off! For those who are unfamiliar with it, the conference has been billed as “the most comprehensive event on SharePoint and related technology.” SharePoint is a robust business and one of Microsoft’s best-selling products. This year, 7,500 attendees make up the … Read more
I recently published a blog post entitled, “SharePoint and Disaster Recovery Options,” but it did not specifically address SharePoint failover scenarios. I began to give more thought to failover scenarios when a prospective customer asked us to devise a SharePoint environment that has the option for a fully redundant, geographically dispersed disaster recovery plan. After … Read more
By Terry Engelstad MCP, MCSE, CCNA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP AIS Network Operations Manager The complexity and diversity of the Microsoft SharePoint platform also applies to SharePoint disaster recovery options. When it comes to protecting your SharePoint farm from the effects of a catastrophic event, there are numerous tools and best practices. But which is the … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President, Marketing Communications The hosting industry”s premiere conference, which was held last week (August 8-10) in San Diego, was the most successful in the conference”s history. According to HostingCon 2011 organizers, total show attendance surpassed by 13 percent the record mark set in 2010. More than 1,800 professionals in … Read more
By Terry Engelstad MCP, MCSE, CCNA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP AIS Network Operations Manager This week, we were contacted by a vendor for a new software product that claims to connect almost any on-premise data source (e.g., databases, ERP/CRM) to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 365. I’m not sure of the value of this to … Read more