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NetHosting CEO Attending Silicon Valley’s Cloud Connect Event
Posted by: | Comments(The Hosting News) – Orem, UT – Lane Livingston, CEO of US-based Cloud computing firm NetHosting, , will be the company’s’ official represented at TechWeb’s premier cloud computing event, Cloud Connect.
The event will be held March 15th through the 18th in Silicon Valley, CA, opening with select pre-conference programs that include the Cloud Business Summit—an in depth discussion venue on funding, marketing, and investing in the cloud—and elite developer workshops.
Following the pre-conference programs, Mr. Livingston plans to attend all three days of the Cloud Computing Conference, during which time keynotes and panel discussions will cover a broad range of cloud-centric topics, such as: designs for cloud applications, code-writing, “cloudonomics,” public vs. private clouds, standardization, cloud security, and a great deal more.
“There is a wealth of knowledge to be gained at venues like Cloud Connect, which bring countless professionals together for a specialized purpose,” Mr. Livingston said in anticipation of the event. “In this case, that purpose is to define cloud computing as an emerging, and powerful, new technology, and to share the tools to enhance its application in all areas of business.”
Scheduled keynotes include presentations by Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager in the Java Platform Group of Oracle, Matt Thompson, General Manager of Microsoft’s developer and platform evangelism efforts, Ric Telford, VP of Cloud Services at IBM, and Scott Chasin, CTO of McAffee SaaS, to name only a few.
NetHosting CEO Attending Silicon Valley’s Cloud Connect Event
SunGard Acquires Hosting 365
Posted by: | Comments(The Hosting News) — SunGard has officially announced it’s acquisition of 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company which trades as ‘Hosting 365’. Although the details of the acquisition were not disclosed, it is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard’s results.
Privately-owned Hosting 365 has built a strong presence in Ireland delivering both data centre managed IT services and, more recently, on-demand computing services within its cloud computing environment.
The company has been providing hosted services since 2001 and operates from two secure data centres in the Dublin area to help ensure the resilience of its solutions. It has pioneered the use of Web-based tools to facilitate customer self-service across all aspects of the service procurement process. Customers can order and provision their changing computer requirements in near real-time as well as monitor their usage and manage their accounts on-line.
Ed Byrne, general manager, Hosting 365, commented, “We are pleased to become part of SunGard and to augment our product portfolio with SunGard’s capabilities. Much of our success so far can be put down to our commitment to serve our customers’ changing business and technology needs. The addition of SunGard’s world-class range of availability solutions will help ensure that we can continue to reinforce our leadership position in Ireland and can help our customers be even more resilient as their businesses change and grow.”
Keith Tilley, managing director UK and executive vice president Europe for SunGard Availability Services, said, “Hosting 365 has built a superb business since its formation. The deal has major benefits for both parties: SunGard gains access to a new geographic market and proven cloud computing expertise, while Hosting 365 extends its product range with our own managed IT services, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.”
About Hosting365
Hosting365 is a hosted infrastructure provider. The company operates its own 25,000 square feet, state-of-the-art data centre in Park West, Dublin. Hosting365 was named as Ireland’s 25th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50. More information can be found on www.hosting365.com.
About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. Visit SunGard Availability Services at www.sungard.co.uk
SunGard Availability Services has been recognized as Service Provider of the Year an unprecedented six times in the Business Continuity Awards’ eleven-year history, and has been a finalist on all but one occasion: a track record unequalled in the industry. In 2008, SunGard was presented the 10th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Excellence in Business Continuity. SunGard and its customers have also achieved success in the Most Innovative Product, Most Effective Recovery, Industry Personality, Lifetime Achievement and Consultant of the Year categories, amongst others.
Representing Intellect, the trade association, on the steering committee for BS 25999, SunGard helped to define the first standard of its kind, which is alerting the wider business community to the importance of business continuity management. SunGard then became the first business continuity expert to secure certification against the BS 25999 Standard. It is now in the unique position of being able to assist its customers – both large and small alike – through the certification process drawing on its own experience.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com
Trademark Information: SunGard and SunGard logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
JB Creative Marketing Ready for Move to New Premises
Posted by: | Comments(The Hosting News) – Kent-based PR/Marketing consultant firm JB Creative Marketing have secured a new office to house its radical expansion plans. This announcement is the culmination of six months of searching, but now the new Faversham based headquarters will be handed over to the online marketing consultants towards the middle of March after a month of negotiations.
“It was vital that we found a new secure head office to help deliver our clients’ needs and keeps all departments of JB Creative Marketing under one roof. This office will help deliver our target for the foreseeable future while offering a good logistical location for our clients,” said Justin Bridges, Managing Director for JB Creative Marketing.
Since its successful roll out of marketing strategies for some of its online clients, a new department was put together to help identify other marketing opportunities. With new clients already signed up off the back of this department the need to secure these offices were critical. This opportunity also provides potential for some extra local job opportunities in the area for fresh young talent and opportunities for organic growth now for both its staff and the company.
Among those new clients feature telecommunications company Keypoint Communications(The Hosting News) - who brought in JB Creative Marketing to help design and roll out the marketing campaign for their new product Cheap Business Calls. This is one of a number of brands to benefit from on site monitoring facilities that the new offices will deliver.
The new office, which will among other things provide onsite meeting and boardrooms as well as extra office space and an opportunity to provide the research and development team their own space.
JB Creative Marketing Ready for Move to New Premises
JB Creative Marketing Ready for Move to New Premises
Posted by: | Comments(The Hosting News) – Kent-based PR/Marketing consultant firm JB Creative Marketing have secured a new office to house its radical expansion plans. This announcement is the culmination of six months of searching, but now the new Faversham based headquarters will be handed over to the online marketing consultants towards the middle of March after a month of negotiations.
“It was vital that we found a new secure head office to help deliver our clients’ needs and keeps all departments of JB Creative Marketing under one roof. This office will help deliver our target for the foreseeable future while offering a good logistical location for our clients,” said Justin Bridges, Managing Director for JB Creative Marketing.
Since its successful roll out of marketing strategies for some of its online clients, a new department was put together to help identify other marketing opportunities. With new clients already signed up off the back of this department the need to secure these offices were critical. This opportunity also provides potential for some extra local job opportunities in the area for fresh young talent and opportunities for organic growth now for both its staff and the company.
Among those new clients feature telecommunications company Keypoint Communications(The Hosting News) - who brought in JB Creative Marketing to help design and roll out the marketing campaign for their new product Cheap Business Calls. This is one of a number of brands to benefit from on site monitoring facilities that the new offices will deliver.
The new office, which will among other things provide onsite meeting and boardrooms as well as extra office space and an opportunity to provide the research and development team their own space.
JB Creative Marketing Ready for Move to New Premises
Improve Your SEO Efforts by Choosing the Right Web Hosting Plan
Posted by: | CommentsThe success and sustenance of every website begins with the server on which it is hosted, and the performance of that web server relies entirely upon the competence, reliability and capabilities of the web hosting provider. Perhaps even more essential to the success of a website is it’s ranking in the search engines. Without traffic a site may as well not exist, and it is a well known fact that having a high page ranking search engines is the bet way to get constant traffic automatically. Many people do not see the correlation between their web hosting plan and their search engine optimization efforts, but I assure there is a valid connection. Every web hosting plan comes with certain features and options, some of which can directly impact your site’s ranking in the search engines.
Geographic Targeting
Many people seem to overlook the importance of targeted traffic. Getting traffic to your web page can be easy, especially if you accept any kind of traffic. However, getting traffic that is actually going to convert into sales is another story. Therefore, it is absolutely imperative to go after traffic that will be beneficial to your business. One of the ways you can do this is by targeting your traffic geographically. If you are trying to sell a product or service that is going to be popular in the UK, then you wouldn’t want a lot of your traffic coming from China. For this reason it is important to choose a web a hosting provider that is located in the area you would like to target. I.E. - If you are in the US, then try to pick a web hosting provider in the United States.
IP Addresses
Another important aspect to consider is the IP address of your web site. Search engines often look at the IP address of a website to determine it’s relation to other websites, which may directly impact it’s rankings in the search engines. In other words, choosing a web hosting plan that offers only shared IP addresses may not be the best decision. You may find it too expensive to purchase a dedicated hosting plan, however you can still get a dedicated IP address with your shared hosting account. If you share your IP address with other websites then you are risking the search engine ranking of your site, since the actions of those websites could be directly connected with your site’s behavior by the search engines. When you have a dedicated IP address you will not have to worry about such occurrences, as your IP address will only be used by your website.
Site Building Tools
You’ll also want to make sure you have access to all of the website building tools and languages that are standard in today’s technology. For example, you’ll need to be able to use PHP, MySQL databases, FTP clients and other standard tools. You’ll also need access to your .htaaccess file and PERL if you want to have a fully functional and reliable website. These tools are also extremely important in the search engine optimization efforts of your website. If your web hosting provider does not offer these tools then you may want to consider a different web hosting company.
4 Ways to Branch Out Your Web Site
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With any web site or online business, it is important to change things up a ‘bit every so often. You don’t want to be seen as becoming stale, or yesterday’s news, so bringing new web site concepts or ideas could be the perfect diversification tool you need to keep people interested in what you do and what you have to offer. There is not a web site out there today that could not be helped by adding one of these four web site service ideas.
Here are four different ways you can branch your web site out:
Blogs – Many people use blogs to extend their web sites. To keep people coming back several times a day, weekly, monthly or more you need to deliver fresh innovative content. A blogging script is the perfect give you the perfect delivery tool to make that happen.
Forums or Message Boards – Setting up a forum script will give the fan base that your web site has a place to discuss issues or issues related to your web site. For example, if I added forums to WebHostingShow.com, they would be for all of you to discuss web hosting and web development issues among yourselves.
Social Sites – It might not be a hosted service, but it is certainly a little something extra you can do to bring more eyeballs in to see your web site. Look into setting up profiles on Twitter, Facebook and the like to bring mention of your web site outside your own domain. Use them as a way to socialize with your fan base, and keep them up to date on the latest and greatest things you have to offer.
E-Commerce Scripts – Finally, you have e-commerce scripts (also sometimes called shopping cart scripts). By adding an e-commerce section to your web site, you will bring in a new way to bring in revenue and sell your unique products and ideas. Make sure you start off small, and you sell something that is unique to your web site or business.
There are your four different ways you can diversify your own web site or online business to attract new eyeballs, and keep the current eyeballs you have coming back for more content, news, and services.
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