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• Lessons Learned from the Microsoft OLSB to Office 365 Transition
  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.
• Inside UK Web Host Six Degrees’ Acquisition Strategy
  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.
• How Yahoo’s New Marketing Dashboard Addresses SMB Hosting Customer Needs
  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.
• Customer Feature: How Ticketing Site Seatwave Handles Demand Spikes with PEER 1 Hosting
  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.
• Q&A: Ruslan Fazlyev of Ecwid Talks Shopping Cart Software
  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.
• How App Stores Offer Web Hosting Customers a Custom Cloud
  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.
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