At HostingCon 2011 in San Diego in August, WHIR TV had the opportunity to speak to Duke Skarda, chief technology at SoftLayer, about some of the new technology the company was introducing to customers at the event. The first tool he discussed was the company’s customer portal, one of the key contributors to SoftLayer’s rapid …Read More
September 15, 2011 — Duke Skarda, chief technology officer of SoftLayer, talks to WHIR TV about some of the new technology the company introduced at HostingCon 2011, including a redeveloped user portal and i
At HostingCon 2011 in San Diego, California, WHIR TV had the opportunity to sit down with Christian Dawson, COO of web hosting provider ServInt, and discuss a project that had taken some major strides at the conference – the “Save Hosting” movement, intended to educate hosting providers about the impact some current and future legislation …Read More
September 13, 2011 — At HostingCon 2011, WHIR TV spoke to Christian Dawson of Servint on the “Save Hosting” project led by him and a few others, to educate hosting providers on some of the legislative threats
At HostingCon 2011 in San Diego, WHIR TV caught up with Chris Sheridan, VP of business development at eNom, who talked about a few key areas of promotion for the company, as well as a few other big projects. First and foremost, he says, eNom was intent on pushing its partnership with domain registry operator …Read More
If there was any doubt at all that web hosting is still a huge growth business, those doubts were erased with the resounding success of HostingCon 2011 in San Diego recently. The general tenure of the 1,800 web hosting business people on hand was overwhelmingly positive as observed anecdotally during the networking events and educational …Read More
One of the big announcements to come out of HostingCon this year was the news that cloud software builder OnApp (www.onapp.com) had launched a new CDN service (there was even a “guess what our big news is” contest leading up to the show). The prospect of a new way to access (and even contribute to) …Read More
My HostingCon presentation was, well I thought actually great. I had a the perfect audience. HostingCon will be providing access to slides from all presentations very soon. I updated mine, as the presentation was a lot of dialogue, so if you attended my M&A presentation, all the numbers you wanted to jot down are now provided. …Read More
HostingCon 2011 has just ended – and this being the 7th year of the event, and it having record attendance, I believe we can all agree it is a must attend event for every Web hoster or vendor. Last week I wrote a blog post on the WHIR where I stated what I wanted to …Read More
If only one could never leave the world of seemingly endless buffet lines, people that always appear very interested in you and happy hours without a bar tab. Where epiphany is interjected in a presentation only to express “where in the hell is he going with this” in another. ”How is the convention for you” …Read More
