Hybrid Hosting Solutions – The Best of Both Worlds

Applied Innovations provides a portfolio of hosting solutions to meet the unique needs of your business, ranging from traditional dedicated server hosting to cloud hosting and everything in between. You may find that the ideal solution for your business might require more than one platform. Enter hybrid hosting solutions, a combination of private cloud servers [...]

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Spotlight on DotNetNuke: The Adaptive Web Content Management System for the Agile Business

DotNetNuke invites developers to “Go Live Faster” with the leading open source web content management platform in the Microsoft ecosystem.   Applied Innovations was an early partner with DotNetNuke, having hosted the application since its inception as the IBuySpy portal starter kit back in 2002 with the first release of ASP.NET 1.0. Since then, Applied [...]

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Get Ahead in the Cloud

The “Cloud” is getting lots of press these days, but what does it all mean for you and your business? Does the Cloud really offer a paradigm shift in the way of businesses operate? “cloud” and what you—and your business—stand to gain from it. Cloud Computing versus Cloud-Based Infrastructure Fundamentally, the Cloud refers to the [...]

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We’ve Launched New Firewall & VPN Solutions

Applied Innovations is now offering new firewall protection and Virtual Private Network solutions. Firewalls exist to help protect businesses from hackers, viruses and unauthorized server access. All Applied Innovations servers come with a 7-Point Security Solution and now we offer Virtual Firewalls that provide further infrastructure protection. Applied Innovations offers two firewall plans: virtual firewalls [...]

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Introducing Jennifer Cooley, Account Manager at Applied Innovations

Fearless Editor sat down with Jennifer Cooler, Account Manager at Applied Innovations, to talk about teamwork, couponing and her shocking aversion to chocolate. Fearless Editor: Let’s get the basics out of the way first. When did you start at Applied Innovations? Jennifer Cooley: I started in the Accounts Receivable department in August 2010. I worked [...]

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Announcing a New Cloud Server Offering

Great news, Applied Innovations expanded our services to include a new class of economical Cloud Servers! While we have offered highly available, managed Clustered Cloud Servers for over four years, on top of the Windows Server platform; the new Cloud Servers are built on top of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and leverage the increased scale/performance [...]

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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 [...]

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Southern Fried DNN Recap

In April we had the pleasure of attending Southern Fried DNN in Charlotte, North Carolina. Applied Innovations participated as a platinum sponsor and had a great time attending training/sessions, networking with attendees at our fun “photo booth”, and even participating in the infamous bull riding competition. I was lucky enough to be able to attend [...]

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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 [...]

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Win a Full Day of DotNetNuke Training

Have you dreamed of becoming a DotNetNuke superstar? If so, this contest is perfect for you because you now have the chance to learn from the people who use DotNetNuke every day. Southern Fried DNN, one of the best DNN events, is offering a full day of training for DotNetNuke users with the option of [...]

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Personal Branding – How Are You Marketing Yourself?

“Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” You’ve heard it countless times, but never has personal branding, or “self-packaging,” mattered more than in today’s world of instant marketing and social media. Your physical appearance, knowledge, skill and the way you present and market yourself create an impression that can have a [...]

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The Importance of Effective Server Management

According to the “U.S. Online Retail Forecast, 2011 to 2016” report conducted by tech research and analysis firm Forrester Research, online shoppers in the United States will spend $327 billion on 2016. This figure is up 45% from $226 billion this year and 62% from $202 billion in 2011. This upward trend in online shopping, [...]

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Orlando Code Camp Recap

Code Camp season is in full swing here in Florida and Applied Innovations had the pleasure of recently attending the 8th Annual Orlando .NET Code Camp on Saturday, March 16th at Seminole State College. There were over 80 informative and entertaining sessions divided into 12 tracks and presented by 60 speakers blazing new trails in [...]

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