Unleashing the Economic Benefits of the Cloud with Intel

March 18, 2009 -- The second keynote Thursday morning was delivered by Raejeanne Skillern, director of marketing for cloud computing at chip maker Intel.

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Peak 10 to Open Second Richmond Data Center

March 18, 2010 -- Managed hosting provider Peak 10 announced on Wednesday it has begun construction on its second enterprise-class data center in Richmond, Virginia.

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SaaS Software Licensing with Insight

March 18, 2010 -- In his presentation "SaaS software licensing: all you want to know about 'pay-as-you-grow'", Pim Bultman, manager of hosting solutions Benelux at Insight explained how adopting a pay you go licensing model is the most effective way of building a web host to grow its business.

Managed Email Security Services Trends with eleven and Variomedia

March 18, 2010 -- Variomedia senior consultant Alexis Machnik and eleven CEO Marten Lehmann delivered their presentation, "Key trends in offering managed email security services".

Simplicity is the Key to Success, with CommVault

March 18, 2010 -- Another of the afternoon presentations delivered Thursday afternoon at WebhostingDay was "simplicity is the key to succes," delivered by Simon Gregory, international business development director from data management company CommVault.

Best Practices for CC TLDs in your Product Strategy, with epag

March 18, 2010 -- In a bit of an extension of what was covered in the day’s last keynote – presented by InternetX – this somewhat more intimate hosting session covered business practices for hosting providers selling country-code domains, presented by Alexander Schwertner of epag, a domain registrar based in Germany.

ISPmanager Cluster with ISPsystem

March 18, 2010 -- In his afternoon session "ISPmanager Cluster (clustering technologies)", ISPsystem's Ivan Kruglov took a look at how clustering is an effective method of shared hosting.

Cloud 2.0: a Vision on the Next Generation of Cloud Products

March 18, 2010 -- At WebhostingDay 2010, serial entrepreneur Kristof De Spiegeleer presented his vision of what's wrong in data center and storage, and it all boils down to simplicity. Active in the space since 1985, and now as chairman of Amplidata and Racktivity, and director of SUN Microsystems Cloud Strategy, "15 years later and not much has changed," a contentious statement, considering the crowd.

Generating New Business through Domain Registration with InterNetX

March 18, 2010 -- In the last keynote presentation of WebhostingDay 2010, Daniel Eisenhut, head of international business development for InterNetX discussed the opportunity of "Generating new business through innovative domain registration".

Why Media and Telecom Will Become BFF, with Deutsche Telekom

March 18, 2010 -- The second of the afternoon keynotes delivered Thursday at WebhostingDay was given by Andres Jordan, VP Innovations, Deutsche Telekom North America.

Profit From Ecommerce in the Cloud, with ePages

March 18, 2010 -- The fourth morning keynote on Thursday was delivered by Soren Von Marchmin of ePages, who promised to provide hosting providers with some insight into how to profit from ecommerce “in the cloud.”

Fujitsu Debuts PRIMERGY CX1000 Cloud Computing Platform

March 18, 2010 -- With the promise of revolutionizing data center economics, technology provider Fujitsu has launched the PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension server, a new massive server that the company said provides unprecedented levels of scale-out capability, and is ideal for cloud computing environments.

Cloud Trends and Opportunities with VeriSign's Martin Mackay

March 18, 2010 -- Martin Mackay, vice president and general manager EMEA at VeriSign, began his presentation by offering an antecdote about his wife calling the IT industry "ridiculous" for coming up with confusing names like cloud computing.

Command Your Data - Open Source Drives SaaS and Cloud Computing: WHD Panel Discussion

March 18, 2010 -- Rafael Laguna de la Vera, CEO of Open-Xchange, a business-class open source collaboration software developer, presented a discussion on the opportunities of open source SaaS and cloud computing, which not only explored the history of the development of computing paradigms, but the direction of "the cloud" as it reaches maturity.

SSM Launches Web Security Scanning Plug-In for WordPress

March 18, 2010 -- Online security provider Site Security Monitor announced last week it has launched WordPress plugin, WP-Secure.

The SaaS Eco-system of the Future with visionapp

March 18, 2010 -- It was fitting that visionapp (www.visionapp.com), a company whose mission is to take the complexity out of cloud services, present on the Software as a Service eco-system of the future.

Security in the Cloud, with Dave Wright of VMware

March 17, 2010 -- VMware’s Dave Wright began his presentation with a sort of historical overview of server technology, starting with the mainframe environment, describing some of the shifts along the way in the nature of the way people accessed data and, then, with particular emphasis on the security of the solutions.

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