By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President We are often asked, “How do I make the case to upper management that outsourced hosting of our mission-critical data and apps is the way to go?” First, because many businesses rely upon their Web site as their primary public face and their IT infrastructure as their office … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Do you remember what you were doing in 1993? We do. AISN started its hosting business back in 1993. Remember the way IT management used to work back then—in the 20th Century? The vast majority of small- to mid-sized businesses ran their mission-critical servers in-house, often ad-hoc. Frequently, … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Move over enterprise. The cloud is where it’s at for small business too. New research, announced today by Microsoft, predicts a significant increase in paid cloud services among small and midsize businesses (SMBs) over the next five years. Conducted by Edge Strategies, the research includes survey responses from … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO Just last week, we made a bold statement that has captured quite a bit of attention within the SharePoint community. We revealed that we are now deploying SharePoint Server 2010 in a single private cloud for less than our competitors are charging for a public or hybrid cloud implementation. … 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 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 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, 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 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