Jess Coburn, Author at Best Managed Cloud, IT and Cyber-security in Florida

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…

Visit to DotNetNuke HQ

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit San Mateo, California and meet with our friends at DotNetNuke’s corporate headquarters. While out there I interviewed Joe Brinkman and Will Strohl on a variety of subjects including: Joe’s take on the history of DotNetNuke and the decision to form DotNetNuke Corp. DotNetNuke 6 and what…

Taking Hyper-V Cloud to the next level

For the past three years we’ve been neck deep in delivering Hyper-V Cloud servers to our customers. Since that time we’ve executed on a number of firsts and achievements in the hosting industry and we’re not stopping there. Our Hyper-V Cloud achievements Became one of the first two hosting companies in the world to deliver…

Awesome Elastic Cloud Hosting – now in beta!

At MIX’11 in Las Vegas we officially took the covers off our new elastic cloud hosting offering and started providing our first sneak peek. For over a year now, our team has been working to build a self healing, dynamically scalable, shared hosting platform that would continue to deliver on performance, speed and security. In…

MIX 11 In review

Last month I attended MIX 11 in Las Vegas. MIX is a Microsoft event that is promoted as a casual conversation of developers, designers and business professionals. This event is 100% web application related and covers everything from development to design and rich media. The great news is if you didn’t attend, almost the…

Integrating Facebook Open Graph with your Website and Why you want to do this

We’re getting ready to launch the beta of the new awesome.net windows cloud hosting platform. I was showing the new awesome.net site to Will Strohl (DotNetNuke guru and all around good guy) and he said “Jess, make sure you get facebook on there and you integrate it with the open graph api so you…

The Pursuit of GreatER Customer Service

In the highly competitive (and dare I say commoditized) web hosting industry if you speak to any hosting company and ask them what makes them different from their competitors I guarantee you’ll get the same response: Customer Service, it’s our people, it’s how we treat you, it’s that we’re you’re business partner, we’re there for…

Mimic your production Web environment, locally for free

In January, Microsoft announced the WebMatrix tool at CodeMash in beautiful Sandusky, OH. Our own Cara Pluff left south Florida and headed up to Sandusky. Now, as you can imagine not many people leave south Florida in the middle of January for Sandusky but she did and was kind enough to send back photos of…

Using WebMatrix to upgrade your DotNetNuke or existing Website

Believe it or not I still find myself building websites after all these years. It’s something I enjoy to do and when most people are out playing golf, I find myself playing with some new piece of software. Generally, I use a content management system (CMS) like DotNetNuke or WordPress to build a website today. …

AppliedI’s outlook on 2011 and where we’re heading

With 2010 behind us and 2011 well on the way, I thought it would be good to share Applied Innovations plans for 2011. I know that the economy is recovering at a very very very slow rate and that the mantra businesses adopted 2 years ago of “do more, with less” continues to be the…