August 8, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- HostingCon has come and gone, but the WHIR has been working to wrap our coverage of the event, posting up our thoughts on things we didn't have the opportunity to cover last week.
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Most of that content has gone up via the WHIR blogs. And, while I ought to finish with my own discussions of HostingCon today, some of that coverage will continue in the weeks to come as Anastasia assembles the videos she shot for WHIR tv.
The blog posting began earlier in the week with Tom Millitzer, who offered up a recap of his Wednesday presentation "Flip That Hosting Company," in which he dissected two fictional, and mostly identical hosting companies to find the subtle differences that would influence the selling price of a business either positively or negatively.
On Tuesday, I posted about my conversation with Ken Simpson of MailChannels, a company that came to HostingCon with a winning combination of a compelling new product offering, and a really great giveaway. Attendees flocked to the booth to get their hands on the very cool Nerf guns the company was giving away. Yet, says Simpson, most of the hosting providers who stopped by the booth were impressed enough with the potential of the company's "traffic shaping" technology to follow up with MailChannels looking for more information.
Wednesday, I discussed my conversation with John Zanni and Michael van Dijken of Microsoft, hosting conference fixtures that were at last week's event with a real focus on discussing the value of Microsoft's recently completed Hyper-V solution to hosting providers. Built as an integrated feature of Server 2008, the hypervisor application enables users to virtualize at the hardware level, which has a broad range of applications for hosting providers.
On Thursday, I posted something about a talk with John Davies of MailSite, which develops an Exchange-alternative type email hosting platform for Windows. One of the more interesting aspects of his application was the opportunity he described to create a privately branded email offering to sit next to Exchange, for those customers who don't want to pay a premium for the brand-name service.
And on Thursday again, I posted about a conversation with Corey Bissaillon of AtMail, which was at HostingCon promoting the "clustered edition" of its mail server software and appliance, which includes some unique MySQL engineering that increases not just the scalability of the application, but the reliability of those scaled-up clusters.
Along with my words-and-pictures blog posts, Anastasia Tubanos posted the first of the WHIR tv videos to come from the show on Thursday, collecting some visitor feedback on the show.
While the written coverage of the event ought to wrap up this week, keep an eye on WHIR tv for more video coverage of the show, including interviews with Microsoft, 1&1 Internet's new CEO Oliver Mauss and with Paul Hirsch on the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers.
