HostingCon 2012 Opening Keynote – The Founder’s Dilemmas

We are super excited to fill in the details on our opening day keynote for HostingCon 2012, which will be delivered by Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor and author of the recently-published business book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. His book, and his course are based … Continue Reading

KEYNOTE: Building Your Strategic Vision – Hosting and Cloud Market Overview, Opportunity and Look Ahead

HostingCon is proud to announce Eric Hanselman, a 20 year tech industry veteran and current Research Director at 451 Research, as the second day keynote speaker of HostingCon 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing on 451 Research’s extensive market research on cloud computing, internet infrastructure and hosted services, research director Eric Hanselman will provide you with … Continue Reading

Announcing the HostingCon 2012 Program

As HostingCon 2012 draws closer it’s time for a key update, which includes the execution of the input received in that voting process: the initial launch of the 2012 HostingCon program. The program is live today. So head over to the schedule page and see what we’ve got in store this year to help you … Continue Reading

Session Voting Ends After Tomorrow. Register Now & Vote!

Session voting for HostingCon 2012 ends after tomorrow! Register for HostingCon 2012 and have your say by voting for the sessions to be included in the 2012 educational program. Continue Reading

Cast Your Vote on Sessions Submitted for the HostingCon 2012 Program

The announcement is out today, but I wanted to provide a little insight into the selection process for user-submitted presentations for the HostingCon 2012 program. The submission window close just over a week ago, and since then, I’ve spent a lot of time going through the speaking proposals – we received more than 170 proposals, … Continue Reading

Keep those Speaking Submissions Coming

The HostingCon 2012 call for speakers has been open for a few weeks now, and the speaking proposals have been rolling in. As you probably know, we rely pretty heavily (like many industry conferences) on proposals from would-be speakers to generate a part of the educational track, and I wanted to put another notice out … Continue Reading

Submit a Session Proposal for HostingCon 2012

Well, we’ve reached that point in the development of HostingCon 2012 where we’re sending out the call for session proposals. The submission guidelines and form went live on the site today, and we’ll be accepting submissions for the next five-plus weeks, concluding on January 20, 2012. Some of you, I’m sure, are familiar enough with … Continue Reading

Give Us a Hand With the 2012 HostingCon Program

We’re getting very close to sending out the official call for session submissions for HostingCon 2012, but before we do, we wanted to create an opportunity for HostingCon attendees to have a little more input into the process. Our goal is that great content be the number one distinguishing characteristic of HostingCon, and we’re actively … Continue Reading

Super Early Bird Rates Expire Soon. Register Now!

Register for HostingCon 2012 today and take advantage of Super Early Bird rates before they expire after 1/4/2012! The 2012 conference is being held from July 16 – 18, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts at the John B Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. It is expected to be the can’t miss, must attend event of the … Continue Reading

The Endurance Acquisition and the Hosting Community

About a week ago, the WHIR reported that two investment banks, Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, had acquired most of Accel-KKR’s stake in web hosting giant Endurance International Group, in a deal that, according to anonymous Reuters sources, valued the company at about $1 billion. To the hosting industry itself, Endurance is a … Continue Reading

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