May 24th, 2008 |
Quite a bit of the session information is now available for the HostingCon 2008 conference program. We have a few more slots that we’re still finalizing, but those should be up in a few days as well. We already have our keynotes arranged as well, we’re just finalizing the titles and descriptions.
Please feel free to take a look and let us know what you think!
January 29th, 2007 |
Isabel Wang had a very interesting post today about Six Apart’s integration with Windows Vista and how they want every company to have a blog. Isabel went on to ask whether hosted service providers should expect customers to adjust their thinking to be in line with the service provider’s or the other way around.
I believe that service providers offering hosted services need to take a big step back and look at what their customers and potential customers want. Customers who have become accustomed to “standard” terminology and service packaging in the industry would probably be satisfied with the status quo. But service providers don’t want to just exchange customers back and forth, do they?
In order to be understandable and relevant to the potential customers currently sitting on the sidelines, service providers are going to have to start marketing their services in ways that make sense to those customers. Isabel said “the average consumer probably doesn’t know how to install scripts.” Some of you may be thinking that you have a “simple” script installer. Really? They may seem simple to you but I would venture to say that a large number of people would still find them confusing.
Why do people like services like Flickr? Because they do what they want them to do (in this case, host photos) and they do it simply and easily. Is Flickr (part of Yahoo) a hosting company? In the traditional sense of the term, no. But you may have noticed that we’ve started using the term “hosted services” instead of “hosting” here on the HostingCon website. Why? Because there are many different facets to hosted services today. Website hosting, hosted messaging, hosted VOIP, hosted applications and more are now considered “hosting.”
Our conference program for HostingCon 2007 is going to talk pretty heavily about the new face of “hosting.” Expect a lot of discussions about new services that hosted service providers are offering.
September 18th, 2006 |
This is the latest [tag]podcast[/tag] recapping the conference sessions and keynotes at HostingCon 2006. This episode is part of the enterprise and data center track and was delivered by Misha Govshteyn, Chief Technology Officer of Alert Logic.
August 11th, 2006 |
This is the first [tag]podcast[/tag] recapping the conference sessions and keynotes at HostingCon 2006. This episode is part of the keynote panel which was moderated by David Snead, Attorney.
Panelists were:
Ian Andrusyk, President and CEO of FastServers.Net
Christopher Faulkner, Founder and CEO, C I Host
Lou Honick, CEO of HostMySite.com
Jeffrey Stibel, President and CEO, Web.com
