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Another Week Another Billion $ Hosting Investment
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
By Tom Millitzer
This morning I noticed a comment by former SAP CEO Hasso Plattner regarding what I will generally term convergence. I thought it was an interesting summary. Essentially he stated that SAP needs to rapidly embrace … super-large in-memory system
PCI in an Hour
Monday, February 08, 2010
By Stacy Griggs
Check out the WHIR PCI Webinar next week. Rick Wilson from Miva Merchant, Craig Fox from Pinnacle Cart and I will be discussing the following topics:
Overview of pending State legislation related to spyware, spam and social networks.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
By David Snead
Virginia: (read more)
New Video on WHIR tv - Interview with Jeff Hinkle of NetDepot
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
By Larissa Primeau
Today's video features Jeff Hinkle, President of NetDepot. (read more)
LCN.com Offers Hosting for 10p Until Midnight
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
By David Hamilton
In the 10 weeks leading up to its 10th anniversary, UK web host and domain registrar LCN.com (www.lcn.com) has announced a new weekly promotion, which we've been covering in the WHIR's weekly web hosting sales and promos roundup. LCN.com hinted that it would have a special anniversary promotion on F... (read more)
Exploring Cloud SLAs: Amazon vs Rackspace
Monday, February 01, 2010
By Joshua Beil
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 suppose it’s inevitable that with increased attent... (read more)
Jack Bauer’s Datacenter
Sunday, January 31, 2010
By Stacy Griggs
I recently came across a site for a colocation company with some unusual claims for physical security. The Stone Mountain DataPlex in my home state of Kentucky claims the following security measures http://www.stonemountaindataplex.com/dcinfo.htm.... (read more)
New Video on WHIR tv -- WHIR Networking Event Los Angeles, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
By Larissa Primeau
Today's video highlights our latest networking event held in Los Angeles, California.The WHIR started hosting networking events all over the States in 2009. They were such a success, we decided to continue to host networking events in some of the same cities and some different, in 2010. LA was a gre... (read more)
No 1 Valuating Your Hosting Cloud - As Simple as an iPad
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
By Tom Millitzer
As promised I have been doing quite a bit of researching and thinking on this cloud valuation issue. A client turned me on to Dr. Randy H. Katz (photo left) over at UC Berkley, he is one of the authors of “Above the Cloud: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing”. Some would... (read more)
New Video on WHIR tv - Interview with David Gallo of SevenL Networks
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
By Larissa Primeau
Today's video features David Gallo, CEO of SevenL Networks in Toronto,Canada. (read more)
Court upholds website’s refusal to remove defamatory messages
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
By David Snead
The two posters of defamatory material were ordered to remove the material from several websites. When they refused, the subjects of the defamation presented the websites with the injunction they received and asked the operators to remove the posts. All but one, ripoffreport, complied.&n... (read more)
#3 Night of the Dresden Dolls
Sunday, January 24, 2010
By Hartland Ross
The problem with marketing on social media is that the campaigns that work are viral in nature. And you can’t create a viral campaign. You can only put your campaign out there and hope it is catching. Here’s recent example of a Twitter campaign:... (read more)
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Inside 3Tera's New Cloud Certification Programs
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Q&A: Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global on Iceland Data Center
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