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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

The Worlds Fastest Host Is Going Global

With the influx of great customers from around the world signing up from around the world, we have learned a few things.  The biggest thing is we’ve got to go global.

As AINEO Secure is a service built by Asia’s best engineers, people world-wide want the reliablity, the speed, and the great support A Secure offers.

We are in the process of making some pretty exciting changes in our “Go Global’ initiative.  A short list of some of the things you will see are

-US dollar, Euro, and yen pricing schemes
-More of an emphasis on English on our multilingual site
-Other products and services that help are customers sell and support their customers and products.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Monday, October 25, 2010

iPhone Seen Helping Softbank Reap Record Op Profit

For iPhone Secure, we have seen BlackBerry as popular to use with our groupware.  However, the iPhone has been taking the cake.  Here’s a recent report to support that.

Quoted from here

TOKYO (Nikkei)—Softbank Corp.‘s (9984) group operating profit appears to have climbed some 40% on the year to a record 320 billion yen for the April-September half.

The company saw higher communications revenue as the popularity of Apple Inc.‘s iPhone smartphone boosted the number of mobile-phone subscribers. In addition, online advertising revenue grew at subsidiary Yahoo Japan Corp. (4689).

Led by its mobile-phone business, Softbank’s sales likely reached 1.45 trillion yen, up some 100 billion yen on the year.

The June release of the iPhone 4 smartphone helped Softbank gain mobile-phone subscribers, which totaled 23.47 million at the end of September, an increase roughly 1.6 million from six months earlier.

Net profit appears to have grown about 10% to 80 billion yen, absorbing an April-June tax-related charge involving Yahoo Japan.

For the full year ending March 31, Softbank projects a group operating profit of 500 billion yen.

(The Nikkei Oct. 25 morning edition)

Thursday, September 02, 2010

University Of Washington Switches To AINEO Secure Web Hosting

We are pleased to welcome the University of Washington, based in Seattle Washington to AINEO Secure hosting.

The University of Washington Alumni association is using AINEO Secure to host their website.  UW chose Secure as they could build their site using Web 2.0 technologies and could create a mailing list to keep track of several thousand UW graduates in Japan and around Asia. 

Go Huskies!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Why Do Governments Want To Read Your Mail?

Recently, there has been a lot of press about Saudi Arabia, and some of the other monarchies in the gulf.  Why is it that these governments are concerned about individuals using BlackBerry?  Is it really because they are concerned about terrorists have a way to communicate that is unmonitored?

Yes, we believe that it is part of it.  However, in general it seems like governments are keen to spy on their people in the name of security.  They want to monitor what people are doing whether it be email, messenger (as in this case), website, or any other means of communicator.

We have heard recently that even the CIA has a presence in the Silicon Valley in California where they invest in companies that allow them to monitor people.  The CEO of a large IP company based there shared that he found where the CIA had even invested in the highly successful Google.  That is scary if you read our AINEO Insight a few months back here.  Of course, you can have the logic that you are doing nothing illegal, so there is nothing to worry about.  But do you really want the government to know everything about you?

If your company is using Research In Motion’s Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) service, their data center for North America is in Canada, their datacenter for Europe is in Canada, their datacenter for Asia Pacific (that’s us!) is in…. you guessed it…. Canada.  The reason why the Saudi’s want access is that all the data is encrypted in Saudi Arabia by RIM and sent back to Canada.  The security is good and the Saudi government has no access to it, so this is why they we threatening to ban BlackBerry in Saudi Arabia.  Of course, RIM doesn’t want to lose their business in that country hence all the backroom negotiations.

A Swiss banker in Tokyo said his bank banned BlackBerry from their company because of the data being in Canada.  Evidently the Swiss see Canada as a ‘colony’ of the Americans and don’t want the American government spying on them as they feel the US could get easy access.

As you look at what cloud service you are using, you really need to think about where you data is.  For AINEO Secure, all your data is in Japan in multiple data centers.  You don’t have to worry about foreign governments reading your mail, or even the Japanese government for that matter.  Your privacy is important to us and as long as you are not doing anything illegal or immoral, the only person who is going to read your mail is you!

Picture courtesy of Reuters.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Tokyo American Club Members Use AINEO Secure To Make Their Voices Heard

Tokyo American Club is a private club of expats from around the world situated in Tokyo, Japan.

Three years ago, a group decided that it would be better if the facilities were rebuilt and updated to draw new members and improve the clubhouse for existing members.  The club was vacated and demolished.  A temporary club was set up near Shinagawa station in Tokyo.  TAC members say due to the location, marketing issues, management, and a number of factors the club lost members.

In June, the Board of Governors pushed the membership to raise membership dues despite the promise of no rate increases to existing members prior to the demolition of the old site.  Townhall meetings were arranged and it was revealed that the study group that made the recommendation to membership did not know about high salaries to the top ten managers of the club (averaging 17.7m yen in 2009) and no apparent effort to outsource or reduce TAC operating costs.

A vast majority of the membership rose up and created a website to ensure transparency in the management of the Tokyo American Club.

TAC membership selected AINEO Secure to build a website using the free tools included in the service.  The site for Making A Better American Club (MABT) was created.  The infrastructure of the site was created in little than an hour.  The site includes

-Interactive posting of articles and thoughts with sections for other members to comment
-Built In statistics recording the number of visitors, referrals, and pages viewed on the site
-Mailing list sending to 3,500 members of the Tokyo American Club
-A Web 2.0 site built on Wordpress standard content management system (CMS)

Need a great website in minutes to tell the world what needs to be done?  Sign-up for AINEO Secure’s website package.

It is screaming fast for your site to load and all built on HP corporate server clusters for high reliability.