Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Blogetery Site Shut Down for Bomb Threats, Hitlist, Says Host News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the fifth cloud trends track session of day one at HostingCon 2010, Equinix’s Darryl Brown spoke about the future of the cloud in his presentation, “The Evolution of Hosting – Where We Are Going, with Equinix”. He started with the disclaimer that his presentation would revolve around the end-user’s perspective. Brown explained that there is a plathorea of opportunities available for service providers and end-users, including new business models for IT services, new type of services, and new sourcing models

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Blogetery Site Shut Down for Bomb Threats, Hitlist, Says Host News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the final cloud trends track session of day one at HostingCon 2010, NCC International president and WHIR blogger Tom Millitzer spoke about cloud mergers and acquisitions in his presentation, “Defining Cloud Valuations”. He began by talking about how his presentation would not attempt to define the cloud, but rather, learn how it fits in with the rest of the hosting industry today.

Usman Arshad of HostDime presents Monday at HostingCon Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Blogetery Site Shut Down for Bomb Threats, Hitlist, Says Host News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Usman Arshad, director of business development at HostDime ( www.hostdime.com ), presented Monday afternoon on advantages of expanding your business internationally, and strategies for taking on that very challenging undertaking. The advantages of operating internationally he addressed included faster growth through introducing new markets, access to potentially cheaper labor forces and a greater brand recognition over a larger area. The hosting market in the United States, he says, has reached a kind of saturation point where there is an incredible number of hosting providers out there, and most of them provide a very similar product

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Blogetery Site Shut Down for Bomb Threats, Hitlist, Says Host News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online marketing strategist and entrepreneur Hartland Ross knows some great ways to help hosts put their best foot forward, so-to-speak. In his Monday afternoon presentation, “Increasing Profits and Prospects with Marketing Best Practices,” Ross, who is founder and president of online marketing agency eBridge Marketing Solutions and consultancy, went through a variety of ways in which hosting companies can use marketing to differentiate themselves in a very competitive field.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects News: The Evolution of Hosting – Where We Are Going, with Equinix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the fifth cloud trends track session of day one at HostingCon 2010, Equinix’s Darryl Brown spoke about the future of the cloud in his presentation, “The Evolution of Hosting – Where We Are Going, with Equinix”.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects News: The Evolution of Hosting – Where We Are Going, with Equinix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the fourth cloud trends track session of day one at HostingCon 2010, Layered Technologies’ Todd Abrams delivered his presentation, “Enterprise Cloud Computing: Trends, Strategies and Best Practices”. Cloud computing really doesn’t come into focus until “you think about what IT always needs,” Abrams prefaced his presentation. He compared the response to the emergencing cloud technology to how many individuals felt that the Internet was just a fad when it first started, where he stressed that it is definitely “here to stay”.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects News: The Evolution of Hosting – Where We Are Going, with Equinix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Hostopia marketing and business development vice president Dave Murphy deflated some of the hype from analysts have instilled into the hosting industry over the past few years in his Monday morning presentation, “The Demise of Hosting – And What’s Replacing It,” at HostingCon 2010 in Austin, TX. It was predicted earlier this decade that nearly all small businesses would have a website and four out of five would be using a third-party host. This reality has clearly not taken shape, and it’s due to a variety of reasons