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IT Nation 2013 Recap – Lou Ferrigno and The Blues Brothers

IT Nation 2013 Recap – Lou Ferrigno and The Blues Brothers

Last week, part of the AwesomeCloud Services team ventured up to Orlando, Florida, to check out the IT Nation 2013 conference. This blog tells you a little about our experiences and provides some light-hearted insight into spending six hours in the car with your CEO. This whole train started rolling when Jess Coburn, AwesomeCloud’s CEO, pulled me into his office… read more >>
Guide to Completing a HubSpot and WordPress Form Integration

Guide to Completing a HubSpot and WordPress Form Integration

One of the key challenges that businesses (specifically marketers) face today is cobbling a set of systems together to gather the data needed to make informed decisions. This blog post reviews how we completed an integration between HubSpot and WordPress to help us gather the data to provide a higher level of service to existing channel partners and prospective partners.… read more >>
Virtual Routing Security Upgrades

Virtual Routing Security Upgrades

The AwesomeCloud Services network has been evolving for over a decade as part of the Applied Innovation family, using every available device, concept and approach to achieve the objectives of a solid hosting provider: uptime, low latency, and security. We recently rolled out our latest upgrade – virtual routing – which is a new tool we're using to ensure the cloud services you… read more >>
Why the CFO Supported Our Cloud Computing Proposal

Why the CFO Supported Our Cloud Computing Proposal

This is a personal story about how my team's cloud computing proposal won the support of our CFO. It was 2012 and my previous team and I were struggling with our on-premise email marketing platform. My previous employer lacked the IT staff to support the department’s hardware and software while our email vendor lacked the resources to support our legacy… read more >>
2013 Microsoft Hosting Summit Recap

2013 Microsoft Hosting Summit Recap

Every year, Microsoft’s annual Hosting Summit is held in the Seattle area and this year marked my sixth year attending. The Hosting Summit is a unique opportunity for Microsoft to meet with their top hosting partners. At this year’s event, about 400 partners were invited out of the 2,500 active hosting partners that Microsoft currently works with. What's most interesting… read more >>
Sales Guide: Selling Cloud Services to Your Clients

Sales Guide: Selling Cloud Services to Your Clients

As a channel partner dedicated cloud services provider, our entire business model is built on cloud resellers, like yourself, successfully offering cloud services to your clients. One of the most common questions that our partners post to us after joining our partnership program is “How Do I Sell Cloud Computing?” It’s a perfectly valid question and something we’re spending a… read more >>
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release Features Overview

Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release Features Overview

Windows Server 2012 has brought quite a few new elements and services to the cloud administrator’s table, including enhancements of virtualization and cloud computing features, the introduction of storage spaces and ReFS, and an improvement in active directory services. Microsoft recently released a preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2, a version rich with cloud and virtualization components. This blog… read more >>
Takeaways from Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference

Takeaways from Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference

The latest Worldwide Partner Conference hosted by Microsoft was held between July 7th and 11th in Houston, Texas. There was an amazing turnout and cloud computing was all of the buzz was once again, but this time the cloud buzz was fully Microsoft focused around Azure and the Cloud OS (Windows Server, System Center and Azure). Many people are aware… read more >>
Maintenance Notice: Cluster Node Software Upgrades

Maintenance Notice: Cluster Node Software Upgrades

When: August 15th and 16th 2013 Purpose: Cluster Node Software Upgrades Expected Impact & Downtime: None Thank you for your continued business and partnership with Awesome Cloud Services! In order to continue delivering the best possible service, our engineering teams will be performing cluster node software upgrades throughout the day on August 15th and 16th. The upgrades will include routine… read more >>
Cloud Computing Infographic

Cloud Computing Infographic

Cloud computing services are becoming the norm in business and the total size of the industry has more than tripled in the last five years. In 2008, it was estimated at a value of about $46 Billion, and in 2014 it is estimated to be worth more than $150 Billion. The following Cloud Computing Infographic (PDF Download) illustrates the growth… read more >>