Does Third Party Hosting for SharePoint 2010 Make Sense?

By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO “To cloud or not to cloud?” is rapidly emerging as the technical question of the decade. Industry analyst Gartner, Inc., expects 43 percent of companies to have most of their IT efforts running in the cloud in as little as four years. Due to that expected boom in cloud … Read more

What Is the Value Add of Managed Hosting in Today’s Market?

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

Welcome, Doug Humphrey, Web Hosting Pioneer

We are proud to announce that Doug Humphrey has joined AISN’s advisory board. Doug is well known in Internet history and it could be argued that he is the father of managed hosting, offering hosting from Digex, one of the first national ISPs. Doug, Founder and CEO, led the company to a successful sale to … Read more

A Bright Future for the Cloud

The beauty is that cloud computing, by its nature, is a technology solution that offers a clear business benefit. It lowers the high “fixed cost of IT” while increasing the agility, flexibility and scalability of a business’ mission-critical IT infrastructure.