2011 - Best Managed Cloud, IT and Cyber-security in Florida

MerchantTribe – A New Open-Source Ecommerce Platform Integrating Social Analytics

For more than a decade, BV Software has been building and selling commercial .NET shopping cart software. Now, they’re releasing an open-source project – MerchantTribe – based on the award winning BV Commerce software. Applied Innovations met with Marcus McConnell, founder and president of BV Software, to talk about this exciting new launch. Applied…

What’s all this SOPA GoDaddy mess about anyway?

I’m sure by now you’ve heard about how the Internet community is in an uproar and ‘revolting’ against GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar on the Internet because they initially came out in favor of the SOPA legislation, only to retract that support because of the stance of the Internet community (you can read about this…

What to expect in 2012 from Applied Innovations

As we wrap up this year we’re looking forward to 2012 and planning for what’s next and I thought this would be a great time to give you a glimpse into what we have in store for next year and how 2011 relates. Earlier this year we launched a preview beta of our next next…

See Appliedi.net at DotNetNuke World in Orlando, November 9-11, 2011

DotNetNuke World is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform. This year the conference will be held in Orlando, Florida on November 9 through 11 at the Hilton Orlando Resort. Applied Innovations is a Platinum Sponsor of DotNetNuke World this year,…

Comparing CMS Applications: DotNetNuke, Joomla, Kentico and WordPress

DotNetNuke, Kentico, Joomla and WordPress are four of the most popular CMS (Content Management System) Applications used by the customers of Applied Innovations. We even offer One-Click Installers right on our Control Panel for all of them. We’ve invested extensive time and research optimizing our hosting platforms to support these apps, too – one of…

A Cloud Computing Crash Course

You’ve heard about the Cloud and you have an idea what it means. But do you really? Platform as a Service. Desktop Virtualization. Application Service Providers. Virtual Private Servers. Grid Computing. Software as a Service. Utility Computing. Remote Backup Services. Infrastructure as a Service. Yes, all these terms are related to the cloud or even…

Taking the Mystery out of PCI Compliance

A VERY Brief History of PCI Short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, PCI is a set of requirements designed to guarantee that all companies who handle customer credit card information maintain a secure environment. So if you have a Merchant ID (MID) and accept credit cards as a form of payment, this applies…

Making Migration to the cloud effortless

One of the services we’ve really prided ourselves on over the years has been our managed dedicated server offerings. We’ve deployed over a thousand dedicated servers in production over the past few years and many of our clients have been running without an issue on the same hardware for years. But over time hardware starts…

What in the world is an Applied Innovations?

I frequently get asked “Why’d you name your company Applied Innovations?” Well there’s a couple reasons for that: I wanted to be first in alphabetical indices so I wanted a company name that started with an A (yes, it’s an old yellow pages trick) I wanted something somewhat generic that if I decided to switch…

PHP4 End of Life Notification

We are pleased to announce the end of life support for PHP4. We began reaching out to our clients on August 9th to give everyone ample time to migrate to newer versions of the scripts they are using (in case of WordPress, Joomla, Mambo, ZenCart, osCommerce, etc) or update their code in the case of…