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Source: blogs.parallels.com --- 17 days ago
Thanks to all that stopped by to say hello last week at HostingCon in Chicago! We enjoyed meeting and talking with Providers, ISVs, Analysts and the Press. It was a busy few days with particular attention, of course, paid to... ... Source: blog.cpanel.net --- 32 days ago
Just a quick thank you to everyone who stopped to see us at HostingCon 2008 last week in Chicago. It’s always great to meet our customers as well as developers that create software that works with cPanel. Thanks! ...
Source: blog.uk2.net --- 20 days ago
Hi everyone, Just a quick blog post to show you the winners of the “Lucky Dip” that we had on our stand at HostingCon 2008. The main prize - A fabulous MacBook Air - went to Liam Philley of Tucows! Congratulations! The runner up prize - A brand new iPhone 3G - went to Matthew Campagna of [...] ... Source: blog.uk2.net --- 30 days ago
Hi all, Now that we’re back from Chicago and have recovered from the jet lag, I thought I’d let you know how HostingCon 2008 went for UK2. In a word it was “AMAZING!” I think I can speak for every UK2 Group representative in saying that it was a pleasure to spend time with hosting colleagues from all [...] ... Source: blog.uk2.net --- 25 days ago
Greetings from Chicago! I just wanted to let everyone know that we’re at HostingCon 2008 to promote the UK2 Group along with our new brand called 10TB.com. If you’re going to be at HostingCon, then drop by Booth 613 to see us. Not only can you say hello, but you can try our Lucky Dip where [...] ... Source: www.thewhir.com --- 23 days ago
My apologies for taking some time to churn these out. I assure you the rest will be coming up much faster. It's just that THIS interview in particular was quite the challenge to edit (for obvious reasons once you watch it). But, the wait is worth it my friends because you get to see Michael van Dijken, the lead marketing manager for hosted solutions at Microsoft, talk about the company's recent Hyper-V technology launch (Microsoft's hypervisor virtualization engine for Windows Server 2008 that officially became available a few weeks ago. Liam wrote a great post about this here .) and Microsoft's cloud computing strategy while simultaneously playing the drums in a game of Rockband! That is talent! Needless to say, it may have been one of the most challenging interviews he's been in and I've conducted, on a "having to focus on two things at once and not mess up on EITHER task" kind of way :) We'll be bringing you an interview with Oliver Mauss, the new CEO of 1&1 Internet later this week as well, so keep an eye out for that. ...
Source: www.thewhir.com --- 26 days ago
The WHIR's editor Liam, as well as some of our other contributing bloggers, have been doing a great job at bringing you a slew of interesting thoughts and discussions from this past HostingCon 2008 . I can't even begin to link to all the posts they've done but definitely scroll through here and take a look at what's been said. Over the three-day event I had the opportunity to chat to a lot of new and old faces and will be sharing these interviews with you in the coming weeks. To give you a small idea of some of the things you can look forward to we'll be bringing you our first conversation with Oliver Mauss, the new CEO of 1&1, and his new vision for the company, discussions with Paul Hirsch about formulating the first association dedicated to the hosting industry, an interview with Sedo regarding the secondary domain market, and a rather unique and unprecedented interview with Microsoft about its recent Hyper-V technology release and goals with cloud computing (you'll know what I mean by unique when you see it...think Xbox). To begin, here's some feedback from the exhibitors and attendees from HostingCon 2008. ...
Source: www.thewhir.com --- 21 days ago
Earlier this year in May, one of the largest hosting providers in the world , 1&1 Internet , rather unexpectedly announced that its CEO and chairman of the board, Andreas Gauger, was stepping down after 13 years and was being succeeded by Oliver Mauss, a veteran in the telecom industry. While we were at HostingCon 2008 we had the opportunity to sit down and chat to the new CEO and gain some insight into his new vision for the web hosting giant. ...
Source: www.thewhir.com --- 18 days ago
Earlier this year in May, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, 1&1 Internet, rather unexpectedly announced that its CEO and chairman of the board, Andreas Gauger, was stepping down after 13 years and was being succeeded by Oliver Mauss, a veteran in the telecom industry. While we were at HostingCon 2008 we had the opportunity to sit down and chat to the new CEO and gain some insight into his new vision for the web hosting giant. ...
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HostingCon was last week, I'm aware. But by the end of the show I had talked to more people, and absorbed more information, than I was able to blog about. So I-ll be filling in a few holes this week before all is said and done. Normally I'm not one for hosting conference swag. I already have a stack of memory sticks I don't use, and enough t-shirts to go jogging every day from now to eternity without doing laundry (note: this is a slight exaggeration). But when I stopped by the MailChannels booth at HostingCon last week to set up an interview with CEO Ken Simpson, I was surprised to find myself coveting their swag . I filled out a quick survey, and I walked away with one of these . The WHIR office is now considerably more rad. MailChannels showed up at HostingCon with a veritable armory of Nerf weapons, and they were a hit - gone long before the show ended. As it turns out, this was one part of a confluence of facts that enabled the company to walk away from the conference with considerably more interested that it had expected. According to Simpson, MailChannels- Traffic Control product was never designed as a product for the hosting business. He says a customer with a deep understanding of the anti-spam market got in touch with him, and let him know that the product was "perfect for hosts." The Traffic Control solution uses "traffic shaping," which prioritizes and slows down suspicious traffic before it reaches the mail server. Some o ...
It was a few hours ago now, but this afternoon we held the draw for the 50" HDTV that has been brightening our networking lounge since Tuesday morning. The winner was the lovely Dianne Stayton of Web Your Business, who seemed more than a little excited to have won the prize. Congratulations to Dianne. We had a lot of fun at the networking lounge this year. A while later, at the other end of the exhibit hall, most of the exhibitors who had prizes to give away took the stage at the presentation theater to announce the winners (the TV was a little bit big to bring over there). At the conclusion of things, Keith Duncan of Ping! Zine took the stage. After a little grandstanding and the obligatory good-natured potshot at the WHIR, Duncan proceeded with the much-anticipated showstopper, giving five lucky winners the chance to sit on a motorcycle for a couple of seconds. Nobody wins! Goodnight everyone! I suppose it was understood in advance that there was really a very slim possibility that somebody would actually win the motorcycle (about 2 percent, I believe - five people each drawing a key from a bowl of 250, one of which apparently unlocked the box containing the actual key to the bike). But it was still a bit of a lame duck promotion, and it should have been apparent to everyone hyping it up that it could be a let-down as big end-of-show prize drawings go. Sure, it would have been fun if, against all probability, somebody had actually won ...
I'll keep this one brief. As many of you may already know we're giving away a really excellent tv this afternoon. It's pictured below. Just to give you an idea of its scale, I can say without exaggeration that the laptop sitting next to it is ten hundred feet tall. Yeah. It's huge. Anyway, we're doing the draw at 3pm. So you have about two hours to come over to the networking lounge (booth 627 - it's really big) and drop your business card in the fishbowl. That really only takes about one minute. So you definitely have time. Good luck! ...
The show is over, but the WHIR's coverage of HostingCon 2008 isn't quite complete. I was blogging feverishly from the show, but at a certain point I began having more meetings and discussions than I could keep up with in print. So I'll be posting observations on a few more things today and early next week before I'm done. Of course, Anastasia Tubanos was hard at work shooting interviews for WHIR tv at the show, and that content should start showing up some time next week. Finally, there are a few photographs from the last day of the show that we haven't had a chance to post to our Flickr photoset just yet. And those should be going up in the next couple of days. That's about it. I was thinking "short informational post" with this one. It was a fun show. A lot of hard work and good times. I'm really glad this weekend is a long weekend in Canada. ...
We ran a bit in the latest issue of the magazine about the new appointments in the marketing department at Verio, and the new marketing strategy ushered in across the company by that move. The new faces are Ken Giffin, director of marketing, and Wendy Pearson, director of makerting and communications. While Giffin focuses on the Via Verio partner program, Pearson will focus more on the company-wide marketing effort. Yesterday I met with Wendy Pearson to discuss some of the content of that revamped marketing effort, or the part of it that is complete at this relatively early stage in the redesign. The new blood in the marketing department starts with Steve Renda, who was made VP of sales and marketing in January of this year. And he brought many of the company's new faces on board. But the shift, says Pearson, comes from a mandate at the company to reinvigorate a business that has been not quite stagnant but certainly coasting for a period of a few years. Verio is one of those hosting companies that deals with the small to medium-sized business market, which can be a pretty broad and vague term when you start to really think about the kind of business that describes. Part of the process at Verio in the last 60 days, says Pearson, has been to really narrow the focus within that realm, partly by trying to characterize those hypothetical customers. At the very high end of a chart she drew that described the importance of IT to a given custo ...