Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine is one of the most influential media in hosting industry. I like it because it is quality and has a very nice design. Read what Keith Dunkan of PingZine said about the magazine. “We print over 20,000 copies per issue, 85% shipped in US, 15% Canada, and overseas, we average 1.7 readers per copy bringing print readership to over 30,000 readers and have average 15,000 readers of the online version, bringing our estimated total to 45,000 readers per issue”. PingZine... more
HP Announced SAN Shared Storage To BladeSystem Matrix
Hewlett Packard announced that it releases a new blade server and storage system that aims to power the new generation virtual data centers and to be used for cloud computing class IT services and platforms. Along with the HP BladeSystem Matrix (a a cloud infrastructure in a box) HP has said that the new HP LeftHand storage P4000 SAN is available as a standalone iSCSI SAN product or as a part of virtualized blade server infrastructure in a bundle called HP StorageWorks SB40c with P4000 Virtual... more
Time For Cloudware
The first one to publicly utter the term “Cloud Computing” was Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. That was almost three years ago, back in 2006. The first article about “Cloud Computing” in Wikipedia was published on March 3, 2007. Since then, more than 500 versions of the same article have been submitted. A long line of references have also been added to Wikipedia’s “Cloud Computing” page. It took me 216 hours to read them all, and 1 hour to forget almost... more
Giuseppe Grillea, NameDrive: Do Not Miss To Monetarize Your Domain?
Some say that there are big money in domain after market. I would admit that I used to underestimate this niche and even when I was executive of a web hosting company, we never used expired customer’s domain to park them and to squeeze some money from them. But probably I wasn’t good enough for the job. Because Giuseppe Grillea from NameDrive. I met him on WebhostingDay 2009 in Cologne and he told me that many people used to earn money from their parked domains. It is the same with the... more
Frank Stiff, Cheval Capital: Investors Will Be Interested In Cloud Web Hosts If They Create Value
We all know what investment banking is, or at least most of us have learned something about investment banking… thanks to financial crisis. Well today “Investment banker” is probably not the most appreciated job in the world. Sadly most people are tending to think that investment bankers are guilty for the current global economic slowdown. Well I’m not one of them. So when I met Frank from Cheval Capital I was interested of his business. I asked them whether he would talk... more