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Demystifying PCI-DSS and PA-DSS Compliance For Web Hosting CustomersPosted on 2010-01-14
Considering it's almost impoosible to demystify it for web hosts themselves this may be a tall order. But I'll try...
ICANN Nairobi Wraps With Key Decisions on .XXX and New TLDsPosted on 2010-03-16
The 37th international ICANN meeting wrapped up last week in Nairboi, Kenya, and some interesting, polarizing decisions were made.
Three simple marketing tools: Part I: Position Yourself as the Expert with White PapersPosted on 2010-03-06
Sooner or later if you do any marketing online, you will hear about using whitepapers. But I wonder how many of the people who talk or write about them really know what a white paper is.
The Twitter Kings and Queens of Hosting.Posted on 2010-03-15
Twitter has exploded as a social networking tool in the last couple of years. There are a number of influential people in the hosting industry that tweet frequently. I wanted to share my list of people I enjoy following the most.
Trust but verify...Posted on 2010-03-08
Cross posted from: SSM Blog
Technology is a Commodity, Solutions are a PremiumPosted on 2010-03-12
When I look around both the technology industry as a whole and the hosting industry specifically, I see an interesting phenomenon that's become the "norm".
CO2 Impact on DatacentersPosted on 2010-03-11
In 2008 International Science Grid stated that 4% of the world's CO2production was due to Information & Communications Technology (ICT), that this was about the same amount of GHG (greenhouse gases) produced by the airline industry, and that of t
Video Feature: WHIR tv features Nathan Day (SoftLayer) and Sunil Potti (Citrix)Posted on 2010-03-10
Today's video is our second installment in our on-going video feature series about the SoftLayer and Citrix partnership.
Do women have an advantage in sales?Posted on 2010-03-18
I’m taking a one post break from legal issues to blog about a discussion I had last night during my dinner at Webhostingday. My dinner companions consisted of three men and one woman. Everyone at the table, with the exception of me,
M&M’s --- Part I - This stands for Marketing and MoneyPosted on 2010-03-19
In some respects it is easy for many small to medium sized firms in this space to compete. It is a mass market. It is big. There are a lot of buyers of your services. Like me you have seen dozens if not hundreds of your competitors. These competitors
10 Most Popular Blog Posts of the Month
ICANN Nairobi Wraps With Key Decisions on .XXX and New TLDsPosted on 2010-03-16
The 37th international ICANN meeting wrapped up last week in Nairboi, Kenya, and some interesting, polarizing decisions were made.
How to partner with MicrosoftPosted on 2010-02-23
As many of you know MaximumASP was Microsoft’s 2009 Hosting Partner of the Year. I thought it would make an interesting blog post to discuss how to be a better Microsoft partner. To develop this post, I reached out to Monish Sood wh
Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 2 Session: How to launch and make money from Cloud ServicesPosted on 2010-02-23
In the afternoon's final session, "How to launch and make money from Cloud Services", Parallels CTO Matt Domo addressed the many opportunities related to cloud services areas of software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a se
Three simple marketing tools: Part I: Position Yourself as the Expert with White PapersPosted on 2010-03-06
Sooner or later if you do any marketing online, you will hear about using whitepapers. But I wonder how many of the people who talk or write about them really know what a white paper is.
Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 1 Session: Clouds with 100% Chance of ProfitPosted on 2010-02-22
Following a day of analyst sessions and presentations, the first general session of the Parallels Summit (which I turned around at one point to discover was completely packed) 2010 was the “Clouds, with 100% Chance of Profit” session (the
Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 2 Session: Take your hosting business to the next stepPosted on 2010-02-23
In one of the conference's most anticipated presentations, SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby delivered the afternoon's next session, "Take your hosting business to the next step".
Hosting Predictions for 2010Posted on 2010-03-01
It’s been a hectic couple of months at MaximumASP, we just completed construction of a new datacenter, moved thousands of servers and relocated our HQ across town. This is long-winded explanation as to why I am just now wrapping up a post
The Twitter Kings and Queens of Hosting.Posted on 2010-03-15
Twitter has exploded as a social networking tool in the last couple of years. There are a number of influential people in the hosting industry that tweet frequently. I wanted to share my list of people I enjoy following the most.
OnLine Data Backup Firms - A Valuation Example - More Cloud StuffPosted on 2010-03-05
Sometimes a little digging needs to be done…research. Sometimes it is not that easy to find valuations, niche parts of industries are tough, but lets try a “Remote storage backup company”
The Untouchable Industry, Tech Charges OnPosted on 2010-03-03
I made a quick trip to Walmart a few days ago to grab a bottle of detergent. You know, even us geeks need to wash our clothes sometimes. A woman near me was examining prices. "$2.48 for this?" she muttered in my direction. I nodded at her and grabbed
10 Most Popular Blog Posts of the Year
17 Rules for Writing Press ReleasesPosted on 2009-05-18
1. Make sure your press release is newsworthy. If it is truly a newsworthy story, editors are much more likely to use it.
HostingCon Day 2 Keynote - Cloud Opportunity PanelPosted on 2009-08-11
Tuesday’s second keynote presentation was a panel discussion on “Shaping the Cloud Opportunity: Vision and Growth for the Future,” moderated by Antonio Piraino of Tier 1 Research, with panelists Zane Adam of Microsoft, Stephen Cho o
#2.Social Media Marketing: What’s your story?Posted on 2009-12-13
If businesses consider creating social media or using the methods of social networking, Professor Piskorski’s research suggests that a good social strategy uses what drives online social networks in the first place, that is: “solving soci
HostingCon Keynote - Microsoft's Zane AdamPosted on 2009-08-11
Day two at HostingCon 2009 kicked off with an early (8:15 a.m.) keynote by Microsoft’s Zane Adam, entitled – hold on, this might take a minute – “Virtualization: Enabling Hosting Providers to be Successful in the New Era of So
ICANN Brings Policy Discussion to the Great White NorthPosted on 2009-08-24
Every year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for the management of the Internet’s Domain Name System, holds three international meetings around various parts of the world. What many people do
Using the Application Packaging Standard - Panel DiscussionPosted on 2009-08-12
"We may be competitors, but is there any reason 10 different companies should be writing the same code?" Network Solutions hosting products manager Miguel Ramos said. Ramos was speaking on a panel called "Using the Application Packaging Standard
Demystifying PCI-DSS and PA-DSS Compliance For Web Hosting CustomersPosted on 2010-01-14
Considering it's almost impoosible to demystify it for web hosts themselves this may be a tall order. But I'll try...
The Internet Marketing Event of the YearPosted on 2009-11-08
I am thoroughly excited to be attending PubCon 2009, not only because it is taking place in one of my favorite cities but because the sessions look exceptionally interesting. I am eager to listen, learn and enjoy this year’s event from November
Exploring Cloud SLAs: Amazon vs RackspacePosted on 2010-02-01
The mainstream media’s coverage and interest in cloud computing has been an exciting boon to our industry, although I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry every time I see an article mentioning an outage of a notable public cloud. I suppos
Netfirms in WSJ, and a Question About Paying for Good PressPosted on 2009-10-02
EDIT: In the interest of archival, I'll leave the body of the blog post here untouched, but I wanted to highlight at the beginning the fact that there are several comments below from folks at Netfirms attempting to clarify the subject. Dan Feferman&n
