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Strategies for Building a Customer-Focused Company
Creating a customer-centric culture doesn’t happen by chance – it takes a lot of effort and a great deal of commitment at every single level of an organization. Whether you are selling hamburgers or providing professional services, it’s not about you, it’s about people you serve. Continue Reading
Cloud Computing Puts Hosting Industry in Crosshairs
The emergence of highly elastic, pay-per-use Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing services, along with a growing assortment of powerful Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings from various vendors, pose an escalating series of unprecedented challenges for traditional hosting companies. Continue Reading
Attend HostingCon 2010 for Valuable Networking Opportunities
HostingCon 2010 is shaping up to be the most well attended conference in the event’s history. Here’s what we’re doing to help you get the most networking opportunities possible out of your HostingCon 2010 experience…. Continue Reading
Ready or Not… IPv6 is here!
The issue is simple: IPv4 addresses are running out, and fast – we currently have about 7% of the IPv4 free pool remaining. The solution to the address depletion is IPv6. This seemingly endless number of addresses holds the future of the Internet, but it requires companies that use and distribute IP addresses to adapt their networks and systems to use IPv6. Continue Reading
Start Each Day at HostingCon With Breakfast and Networking
Jump start each day at HostingCon 2010 with a hot breakfast and networking with your peers, compliments of Telecity Group. HostingCon would like to thank Telecity Group for providing a hot breakfast for this year’s attendees. Continue Reading
Why a Content Delivery Network is Important to Your Hosting Business
With most companies conducting business on the Web these days, it is crucial for websites to deliver dynamic content—streaming, VOD, games, etc– rapidly and with zero impact on the load time of the page or viewing quality. A combination of increased site traffic and heightened customer expectations can quickly overwhelm a business’ website and the business itself. Continue Reading
TCO From the Cloud – What Hosters Need to Know
Did you know that with a scaled-out cloud architecture, resiliency and availability are provided in the software layer rather than the systems themselves? Continue Reading
Software in the Cloud: What to know about Intellectual Property and the Hosting Evolution
Today more than ever, hosting service providers are ultimately responsible for hosting and safe-keeping our client’s creative assets, application source code and customer databases. Often, these assets are jointly developed with custom solution providers and tightly configured to operate for highest performance on the hosting provider’s specific infrastructure setup. Continue Reading
Hosting with Green Energy: What You Should Know
You have heard about reducing your environmental impact with renewable energy certificates or carbon offsets, but do you understand how these instruments help to reduce climate change? Did you know that a handful of hosting companies are already supporting renewable energy and are effectively informing consumer decisions by marketing their environmental commitment. Continue Reading
The Cloud Storage Maturity Model: A Value-Driven Process
There is much discussion about cloud storage – and why it is or is not being adopted. One way to look at cloud storage adoption is to view it as an evolutionary process. This process changes as the organization matures and becomes adept at leveraging the new technology, and as the technology evolves to meet the real needs of the end-user. Continue Reading