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by Nicole Henderson
May 24, 2012 — Microsoft has flooded the newswires recently with success stories of how its cloud productivity suite Office 365 has helped organizations from Catholic school boards to electronic equipment manufacturers share and communicate in the cloud.
by Justin Lee
May 23, 2012 — Acquisitions within the web hosting space can be a complicated process, requiring careful analysis and consideration. And while web hosting companies can certainly learn from looking at successful acquisitions in a comparable market, there is no all-encompassing formula that can be applied to future deals.
by Liam Eagle
With its latest small business offering, the Yahoo Marketing Dashboard for small business, Yahoo takes another step toward becoming that complete service provider, a route familiar to web hosting providers.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 — Depending on the event it’s serving, an online event ticket marketplace, acting as a middleman for buyers and sellers, can process thousands of transactions a minute. An event that is high in demand can attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the website simultaneously.
by Liam Eagle - Monday, May 14, 2012
May 14, 2012 — In an email Q&A with the WHIR, Ecwid CEO Ruslan Fazlyev discusses how he applied the lessons learned working on his previous project X-Cart to Ecwid, addressing some of the pain points in deploying storefronts in websites. He also discusses how the company intends to work with hosting providers.
by Nicole Henderson - Friday, May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012 — The app store has become a pretty universally understood model for acquiring software, thanks to the across-the-board adoption of smartphones, and their approach to customization. Not surprisingly, the app store has made its way into the web hosting world.
by Liam Eagle - Thursday, May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012 — In an email interview with the Web Host Industry Review, Jeffrey S. Klaus, director of Intel’s Data Center Manager solutions discusses the power crunch in the data center in general, and talks specifically about some of the middleware tools Intel has developed to help push the power-efficient agenda inside facilities.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012 — The shared hosting market hasn’t been a hot topic in the hosting business for years. But while other areas have seen more rapid growth, the shared market is still out there, still consistently producing revenue for a large number of hosting providers.
by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 — Open source unified storage platform Ceph was created by a co-founder of web host DreamHost in 2004, and since then, DreamHost has been behind it despite not even having a QA department supporting the project.
by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012 — At its second annual conference at the end of April, ecommerce platform Magento announced several new developments, including the launch of its native HTML 5 mobile version, and several updates to the community and enterprise editions of its ecommerce software.
by Justin Lee - Monday, April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012 — Partnering with a cloud orchestration platform can provide significant benefits for cloud providers, and ultimately influence the way service providers build out their cloud services.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, April 24, 2012
April 24, 2012 — In a statement on Monday, ICANN chief operating officer Akram Atallah said that while it continues to investigate the technical glitch that forced it to take the new gTLD application system offline two weeks ago, it is making progress.
