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

HostingCon and the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

This past month I found myself traveling between Florida and Austin, Texas for HostingCon only to return two weeks later to Houston, Texas for Microsoft WPC. What did I learn? The barbecue is better in Austin and contrary to what we’ve come to believe from watching Lone Wolf McQuade as a impressionable teenager, Lone Star…

Windows Server 2012 R2 and the goodness it will bring.

It was just over a year ago that we announced our Windows Server 2012 Beta Cloud Server offering and I’m happy to announce (now that we’re officially allowed to announce) that we didn’t stop there. We’ve been working closely with Microsoft (in fact over the past couple years even more closely) around the next version…

A Microsoft Hosting Summit Recap

Each year Microsoft holds their annual Hosting Summit in the Seattle area and this year marked my 6th year attending on behalf of Applied Innovations. The hosting summit is an opportunity for Microsoft to meet with their top hosting partners, about 400 were invited out of the 2500 active hosting partners. What’s most interesting about…

10 Lessons I learned at the Masters

Last month I was fortunate to be invited to attend two days of the Masters Tournament practice rounds in Augusta, Ga as part of Intel’s Executive Networking Series. While there I took advantage of the opportunity to network with executives from companies such as Intel, IBM and HP but I’m also a creature of observation…

Farewell to WebsiteSpark and the Expression Suite

Back in September of 2009 Microsoft developed a program called WebsiteSpark. WebsiteSpark was meant to drive developer interest into the Windows Web Platform and drive awareness to the Microsoft Expression family of products. Recently Microsoft announced that the Expression family of products would be changing as they worked towards unifying their development tools and moving…

New Year, New Website and $75 to promote it!

Get in front of potential customers with ads on the Yahoo! Bing Network. With a single ad buy through Bing Ads, you can reach 152 million unique searchers who represent 5 billion searches every month on the Yahoo! Bing Network. Your new customers are making decisions online. Don’t be browsed over. The new year is…

Even Successful Businesses Need Help

One of the things I love about Applied Innovations is that each day we get to help businesses succeed online. In fact, “making online success, easy” is our business mantra. Unfortunately, we can only help with cloud initiatives and frequently businesses need more help than just that. One place I’ve come to realize most business…

Introducing GiveCamps–Developers (and AppliedI) helping Charities

As I type this message, there’s a group of volunteers gearing up to spend the next 48 hours hyped up on Caffeinated drinks, gorged on Pizza and sandwiches and busily typing away on keyboards, strategizing on whiteboards and tackling problems for the greater good. No, I’m not talking about a World of Warcraft marathon gamer…

The Internet Infrastructure Coalition

Last year the Internet on a whole was concerned by the SOPA and PIPA legislation, myself included and the hosting industry came together with the rest of the Internet community and helped speak out against the looming threat of SOPA and fortunately SOPA was stopped. Unfortunately, there still plenty of work to be done as…

Cloud Services and Small Businesses

In 2011 Parallels conducted a market research study to help service providers better understand the current state of cloud hosting and the small to medium sized business. What they found was that today’s small and medium sized businesses are responsible for 15 billion dollars of the cloud market today and are the businesses that are…