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Category Archives: HostingCon 2010
Hosting and Cloud Computing – What Does the Future Hold?
The promise of cloud computing is huge and many of us in the hosting industry have solutions or ideas on what the hosting future looks like. The only fact that remains constant is the constant amount of change that moves through this industry.
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HostingCon 2010 Attendance & Information Guide
HostingCon 2010 is only a few days away! Here’s all the information you’ll need to know before and during the conference. Continue Reading
Mobile and Hosting: The Next Frontier of the Internet is Now Open
To help HostingCon 2010 attendees start thinking about mobile, HostingCon is proud to welcome dotMobi as our official mobile partner. Continue Reading
Learn How to Leverage Hybrid Computing for Your Business
To most, the cloud is simply computing at someone else’s data center. To the astute, cloud computing is a sophisticated infrastructure platform powered by software that can automatically scale a growing number of workloads up and down on-demand. Continue Reading
Adding Value to Your Business With Financial & Operating Metrics
Successful companies use financials and various operating metrics as a key way to manage their businesses and increase value. The “Adding Value to Your Business With Financial & Operating Metrics” panel (9am, Monday July 19th) looks at the operating metrics and financial results that can add meaningful value to everyday hosters in operating, growing and exiting a hosting business. Continue Reading
BackupAgent Announces Next Generation Online Backup Software V4 at HostingCon 2010
In the past year, BackupAgent has gone through a process of intense customer feedback in which BackupAgent has collected typical usage behavior and compared this with wishes and ideas coming in from partners. Continue Reading
Practical Acquisitions Advice: Process, Pricing & Trends
Buying or selling a hosting company can be a complex process with a lot of inter-related factors that affect the price and risk a buyer or seller takes on. This panel (2pm, Tuesday July 20th) is comprised of some of the industry’s most successful and knowledgeable acquirors as well as one of the industry’s top bankers talking frankly about how they look at acquisitions. Continue Reading
Enabling ISVs To Go SaaS with Hosted Infrastructure as a Service Solutions
The SaaS (Software as a Service) or Software On-Demand, revolution is in full swing now. There is no denying that the majority of software will be delivered through the Web. Continue Reading
Managing Risk in Outsourcing
The Hosting Industry is going through a stage of consolidation and is maturing at a fast pace. Post the Y2K bust, people feared jumping into any business related to the Internet. However the Hosting Industry has changed all that. With the low cost of starting a hosting business and the innovative trends, plans and pricing wars, it has resulted in creating a very competitive yet high volume business with immense potential to grow. Continue Reading
How to Successfully Optimize Your Social Media Efforts
OK so you have heard the hype; maybe even got excited and dipped your toes into the “Social Media” waters. You thought that Social Media was going to rock your world; boost sales, improve customer relations, manage your reputation online but ….either you never found the time or somehow it has failed to meet your expectations. Why? Continue Reading