WHIR Webinars Series addresses a topic or issue each month, in the form of a panel discussion of relevant key players in the industry, moderated by WHIR editor Liam Eagle.
We intersperse our own panels with Sponsor Webinars that are of topics of interest to our readers and available to companies who wish to partner with us on their own Webinar presentation. Contact us to learn more.
Upcoming Webinars
Archived Webinars
Conquering the Cloud: 6 Pitfalls Preventing Scalability and How to Avoid Them
- Date:
- December 7, 2011
- Panelists:
- Jon McCarrick, Director of Product Marketing, Parallels Plesk Panel
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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We’re all using the same servers. We all have access to the same software. The resources available to each of us are plentiful. Yet, some of us are winning and some of us are losing. Why?
Scalability.
Success in today’s Cloud marketplace requires you to become a highly scalable organization with laser-like focus on efficiency and reproducibility.
Join us as we explore how you can avoid 6 common pitfalls to scalability. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of scaling your team, scaling your infrastructure and scaling your revenue to take advantage of the opportunity to successfully expand with the Cloud.
Learn How 1,000+ Cloud and Service Providers are Making Money with Veeam Software
- Date:
- November 16, 2011
- Panelists:
- Doug Hazelman, VP of Product Strategy Chief Evangelist and Spokesperson, Veeam Sotware
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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In just 18 months, more than 1,000 cloud and service providers have chosen Veeam Software. Learn how partnering with Veeam can help your business gain a competitive advantage in the industry, protect all virtual machines (VMs) in the hosted environment with a single solution and increase revenue with additional services.
See how you can partner with Veeam and:
1) Gain competitive advantage
2) Protect all VMs with a single solution
3) Increase revenue with additional services.
The Web hosting industry is at risk learn more about the Save Hosting Coalition
- Date:
- November 1, 2011
- Panelists:
- Christian Dawson, Chief Operating Officer of Servint and David Snead, Attorney & Counselor, W. David Snead, P.C.
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review & Co-Chair HostingCon
- Sponsor:
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This webinar is designed to provide information about the status of the coalition.
After three months of organizing, the coalition is poised for direct action. During the webinar, attendees will learn about the status of a letter on PIPA to the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee, organizational efforts designed to ensure a solid foundation for future efforts, and information about a new “kill switch” bill pending in the House of Representatives, that appears to be more damaging than PIPA.
We encourage those interested in Save Hosting to attend, whether you’ve heard our message before, or are new to the coalition. Now is the time to act, and we need your help.
Secure Your Cloud with a Strong Front-Line Defense
- Date:
- October 11, 2011
- Panelists:
- Zohar Alon, Co-founder and CEO of Dome9 Security & Rich Mogull, Founder and CEO of Securosis
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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You wouldn’t leave your car unlocked in a public parking lot…so why would you leave your server unlocked in the cloud?
Many of today’s 20 million cloud and virtual-private servers are vulnerable to attack. Open ports, like RDP and SSH, enable administrators to connect to and manage their clouds, but leave a gaping hole for hackers and malware like the recent Morto Worm to exploit. And what security’s available is too complex, costly, and cumbersome to manage.
Join leading cloud security analyst Rich Mogull and security veteran Zohar Alon as they discuss some of the top challenges to securing your cloud with expert advice and real-world examples, and demonstrate the power of Dome9′s all-new cloud security management service.
Right-sizing IT to increase revenue per sq. ft. in your data center
- Date:
- September 22, 2011
- Panelists:
- Deania Davidson, Product Marketing Manager, Dell
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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Find out how you can make $1.6M more per rack per year in your data center just by right-sizing your information technology.
• See the impact right-sizing technology at the server, rack and data center levels can have on your top and bottom lines
• Learn more about servers and cloud solutions designed specifically for hosting
VPS is dead, long live VPS
- Date:
- September 7, 2011
- Panelists:
- Lowell Anderson, Director of Product Marketing, IAAS Services Parallels
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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With many of the initial benefits from virtualization already being reaped, the growth of basic VPS as a service offering is slowing. The ever-evolving service and workload needs that SMBs now demand include elasticity, security, programmatic API-level access, and scalable virtual data centers. Cloud Infrastructure is quickly becoming the new standard and growth engine for delivering Infrastructure services to SMBs replacing traditional VPS.
Join us as we discuss how Cloud Infrastructure enables:
• New customer scenarios enabled with elastic, connected, load balanced virtual infrastructure
• How you can move from offering a single container VPS to providing a full cloud virtual datacenter to your customers
• How today’s VPS business, with new Cloud Infrastructure features will help you drive future virtualization growth.
Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack
- Date:
- August 25, 2011
- Panelists:
- Joseph B. George, Director, Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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An innovator’s dream, Dell’s™ OpenStack™ Cloud Solution is a massively scalable infrastructure-as-a-service cloud solution. It offers support for existing ecosystems, along with opportunities to influence future direction. Most importantly, it provides foundational components for cloud services. By building on the OpenStack foundation, you can deliver the best cloud for your applications.
In Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack, attendees will:
· Find out about one of the fastest ways to stand up an OpenStack cloud
· Learn about the development, implementation and operation of Dell Crowbar
· Hear how one company planned and implemented an OpenStack cloud for its business
Dell is one of the original partners in the OpenStack community, which has now grown to more than 70 partners and participants. To accelerate adoption of this powerful platform, Dell has worked to deliver a fast, easy OpenStack experience based on the Dell developed software, Crowbar.
Get started now with:
· An optimized OpenStack Cloud Solution
· The Crowbar automated OpenStack installer to speed bare metal deployment
· A free technical whitepaper that details the design of an OpenStack hyperscale cloud on PowerEdge C server technology
· Proven expertise to help you get up and running fast
Read more about the steps to design an OpenStack scale-out cloud in Bootstrapping OpenStack Clouds and more info at http://www.Dell.com/OpenStack
Endurance Uses Payment Processing to Increase Recurring Revenue
- Date:
- May 26, 2011
- Panelists:
- Joe Bardenheier, Sr. Vice President, Corporate Development, Endurance International Group; Jude Augusta, Director, Business Development, Litle & Co.
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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Endurance International Group is the second largest provider of shared web hosting services in the world. Litle & Co. is a leading processor in the hosting industry for such well-known brands as GoDaddy, HostMonster, BlueHost, Hostway, Tucows, Oversee, HostDime, Directi/LogicBoxes and dozens of others.
Endurance grows revenue and optimizes human resources by leveraging Litle’s strengths in areas such as:
• Recurring billing strategies that maximize predictable and reliable cash flows
• Reducing Interchange rates per transaction, resulting in tremendous savings to the company
• Keeping hosting accounts “alive” by keeping customer credit card numbers continually updated
• Consolidating reporting among multiple brands into a single report, broken down by business-unit
These increased operational efficiencies enabled Endurance to acquire additional web hosting properties, enhancing its profitability and reputation.
But don’t just take our word for it. Watch this video interview with Joe Bardenheier, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Endurance International Group:
Want to know more on how to improve the operational efficiency and profitability of your shared web hosting domain? Attend and ask your questions in this live webinar with Joe Bardenheier (Endurance International Group) and Jude Augusta (Litle & Co.)
What’s Driving the US Hosting Market-2011?
- Date:
- April 6, 2011
- Panelists:
- Dan Ephraim, Director, Digital Realty Trust
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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The US market for colocation, hosting and cloud services is growing rapidly. Join Dan Ephraim of Digital Realty Trust and Liam Eagle of The WHIR as they review the results of their recent joint survey of companies just like yours that examines the issues, concerns and requirements of this expanding marketplace at 12:00 CDT.
Demystifying ICANN Accreditation
- Date:
- January 20, 2011
- Panelists:
- Tim Cole, Chief Liaison from ICANN; Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, Strategic Partnerships, LogicBoxes
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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Almost all of the largest companies in the web products and services industry are ICANN Accredited. These include big names such as 1&1, Go Daddy, The Planet, Lunarpages, Host Gator, et all.
Every year, scores of web services companies (webhosts, domainers, web design companies, internet focused law firms, etc.) apply to obtain an ICANN Accreditation. They do this for varied reasons, which range from the obvious cost advantages to the slightly more strategic reasons such as branding, the tapping of additional revenue opportunities, etc. For web hosting companies, getting ICANN Accreditation is an obvious step once you cross a certain inflection point.
But tread with caution; ICANN Accreditation is an important step. It takes money, time and effort. Not everyone that applies for an ICANN Accreditation really needs it. More importantly, however, not everyone that applies has what it takes to handle the Accreditation.
There are tons of unanswered questions that companies have about ICANN Accreditation:
Q. How much does an ICANN Accreditation really end up costing? What are the hidden costs?
Q. What rules and regulations will companies need to abide by if they get ICANN Accreditation?
Q. When or at what stage should I look at getting my company ICANN Accredited?
Q. Is ICANN Accreditation really worth it?
We plan on answering all these questions through a simple interactive presentation, with case studies and DIY exercises that can help web hosting companies objectively access their ICANN Accreditation plans.
We’re the best people to talk about this topic. LogicBoxes; (through its service Accreditation.com), has helped accredit over 15% of the world’s Registrars. We also power the domain registration software of industry powerhouses like UK2.net, ResellerClub, WordPress and Host Gator.
The presentation will be ably supported by Tim Cole, Chief Registrar Liaison from ICANN. Tim will be providing an ICANN’s perspective on what you can expect from the Registrar accreditation process.
