Sales Recruitment - Finding the Right Candidates

Posted on 2009-12-10

For the third part in my recurring series of post on hiring web hosting sales talent, I wanted to consult an expert on the recruitment of sales professionals.  David Forsyth is an IT Sales Recruiter with The Innovar Group in Colorado www.innovar

12 Reasons Why Sales People Should Use LinkedIn

2009-08-26

How can LinkedIn help? Your Profile, not only on LinkedIn, but also in search engines like Google, contributions in Answers and Discussions....

Data Center Pulse Gains Strength

October 8, 2008 -- With face-to-face networking remaining an industry mainstay, much discussion of Web hosting has naturally gone online. However, a newly formed, more structured online community has emerged as a hub for data center professionals.

Sun Hosts AFCOM Meeting

September 19, 2008 -- Data center solutions provider Sun Microsystems announced on Friday it will be hosting the AFCOM Northern California Chapter meeting on September 24 at its Santa Clara, California campus.

Applications and the law

Posted on 2008-09-04

This is my second Office 2.0 conference, but this year I was asked to speak on legal issues that affect application and SaaS companies.  The panel was pretty unstructured, without presentations.  However, I took my thoughts on legal issues

European Fund Backs Highwinds

September 3, 2008 -- IP services and content distribution provider Highwinds Network Group has negotiated equity financing backing from venture capital firm European Founders Fund for expansion into Europe.

Firefox 3 Rejects Self-Signed SSLs

August 20, 2008 -- While expired and self-signed SSL certificates may have warranted yellow flags in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer, the latest Firefox will scare away users from SSL-carrying sites unless they are certified by a third party.

Equinix Houses Slide Platform

August 18, 2008 -- Equinix announced on Monday that Slide has deployed operations at Equinix's newest Internet Business Exchange center in the Washington, DC area, more specifically in Ashburn, Virginia.

Equinix Links Up With LinkedIn

August 5, 2008 -- Data center provider Equinix has announced that professional networking community LinkedIn has expanded its operations at Equinix by adding a new business continuity deployment at one of its Chicago Internet Business Exchange centers.

HostingCon 2008 - Social Media and Web Host Marketing

Posted on 2008-07-28

The first panel I attended this morning was the marathon two-hour marketing forum that ran from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and featured six panelists along with a moderator.

Malware Targets Mac OS, iTunes

July 28, 2008 -- An Argentinian researcher has released the details of an exploit that enables malware plants on end user computers running iTunes, Mac OS X, Winzip and many popular programs according to a report from UK news site the Register.

Dell Leads Industry in iSCSI SANs

July 11, 2008 -- According to industry analysis firm Gartner, Dell is the worldwide leader for iSCSI storage area networks, holding more than double the market share of its nearest competitor in the first quarter of 2008.

Web Hosting Talk Enhances Profiles

April 30, 2008 -- On Wednesday, Web Hosting Talk launched "enhanced member profiles," which enable registered members to integrate social networking features from other online social media.

Nirvanix Receives European Funding

April 15, 2008 -- Cloud storage platform provider Nirvanix announced on Tuesday that it has received funding from German venture capital firm European Founders Fund.

LinkedIn Website Sees Downtime

March 3, 2008 -- Online business network provider LinkedIn was offline for about an hour on Friday morning after a major update to the website as well as a message post from Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates.

All or Nothing?

Posted on 2008-02-25

Today I want to go on about web design in general, and also talk about my web site's home page.The General RantIt is said that the 'well rounded scientist' concept is dead, replaced by two groups - people who know everything about nothing

Gomez Delivers SaaS to Companies

February 27, 2007 -- Web application experience manager Gomez announced on Monday that two new companies have joined its expanding social network customer base.

Amazon EC2 Offers Machine Image Sharing; Dedicated Servers More Obsolete Than Ever

Posted on 2007-01-02

Wow - this is way cool. According to Amazon's Developer Connection Newsletter, users of EC2 can now share machine images with one another.

Functional Hosting Has Been a Hit; Could Situational Hosting Be Next?

Posted on 2006-12-28

A few months ago, in response to Trinity Ventures' $10.5 million investment in Photobucket, Tier 1 Research wrote that "the growth in functional hosting represents a growing threat to shared hosting providers."

Who's Afraid of Bob Parsons?

Posted on 2006-11-22

1&1 CEO Andreas Gauger is, apparently. According to an article in the December issue of Business 2.0 Magazine (pages 126-132), Andreas says everyone fears Bob: "If he doesn't do anything wrong, nobody in the domain business can touch him." I disagree

Web Host Plinkd Launches Services

June 16, 2006 -- Web hosting provider Plinkd announced on Friday it has launched its services, offering a hosting plan that includes PHP5 and Ruby on Rails, and more importantly, its unique community discount scheme.

The Marketing Issue

March 2009