Business Web Hosting
Speaker: Andy Schroepfer: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by ...
Andy has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP industry’s primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications, which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs. In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry. Before joining Rackspace, Mr. Schroepfer was a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for business use of social media applications like Facebook (/Schroepfer) and Twitter (@shrepfur).
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Speaker: Gina Trapani: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...
Gina Trapani (link: http://ginatrapani.org) is a tech blogger and web developer based in San Diego, California by way of Brooklyn, New York. The founding editor of Lifehacker.com (link: http://lifehacker.com,) a weblog on software and personal productivity, Trapani authored a book based on the web site which is in its second edition: Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better. Currently she is a columnist at Harvard Business Online and co-hosts This Week in Google on the TWiT Netcast Network.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Speaker: David Armano: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...
David is part of the founding team at Dachis Corporation, an Austin based start-up delivering social business design services. He is both an active practitioner and thinker in the worlds of digital marketing, experience design, and the social web. Author of the popular Logic + Emotion blog, he has been invited to speak at events hosted by organizations such as Google, Microsoft, O’Reilly and Ad Age.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Speaker: Brooke Burke: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...
As a mother of four children with a hectic work schedule, Brooke Burke is the quintessential Modern Mom. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Brooke has had a distinguished career as a television host, TV personality, and entrepreneur. Brooke recently won ABC’s Dancing With The Stars in front of an estimated audience of 20 million people. She is also recognized worldwide for her roles as the host of E! Wild On, and the CBS hit show RockStar. She has been equally successful as an entrepreneur, having launched a vibrant e-commerce business, Baboosh Baby, which features her popular product known as Tauts, a belly wrap for new moms. Brooke grew Baboosh Baby to a multi-million dollar business and it will become an important ingredient in the success of Modern Mom.
[Publish Date: October 20, 2009]
Social Media Buyers Guide Preview and Discussion: Web 2.0 Expo San ...
What expectations do managers have for social media in their business strategy? How do large well-known brands establish ROI on their social media outlay? Join Chris Heuer and William Gaultier as they gather before their Friday session to host an interactive and informal discussion based on the results of the much-anticipated Social Media Buyers Guide.
[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]
Hug Your Servers Goodbye: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by ...
By Andy Schroepfer
Small businesses and large organizations alike are wiping out server infrastructure and going the service route. The trend toward NoMoreServers is gaining momentum. Server huggers should give their servers one last hug because hosting and cloud computing service providers are becoming the largest purchasers of servers.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Speaker: Lorien Gabel: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...
Lorien Gabel: Lorien is a lawyer and entrepreneur who has successfully started and exited from two Internet technology companies. In 1994, at the age of 24, Lorien abandoned a career in law to join his brother Matt at Interlog Internet Services Inc. Interlog never required outside VC investment as cash flow from operations completely financed the company. The company was later acquired in an all cash transaction. After taking time off, Lorien then spent a year as the first employee and General Manager of Micron Electronics’ web hosting division. Through a series of acquisitions he built the company’s managed hosting services businesses into one of the largest players in the market. Then in April 2000, with venture capital backing from Micron, Lorien co-founded with Matt BOAW Networks Inc, one of the first Canadian companies to capitalize on the shift from co-location to managed hosting services. In 2001, AT&T Canada, looking to enter the managed hosting market, acquired the...
[Publish Date: September 16, 2008]
Speaker: David Armano: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...
David is part of the founding team at Dachis Corporation, an Austin based start-up delivering social business design services. He is both an active practitioner and thinker in the worlds of digital marketing, experience design, and the social web. Author of the popular Logic + Emotion blog, he has been invited to speak at events hosted by organizations such as Google, Microsoft, O’Reilly and Ad Age.
[Publish Date: September 16, 2008]
Speaker: Jonathan Bryce: Velocity - O'Reilly Conferences, June 23 - 24, ...
Jonathan Bryce started his career off working as a web developer for the managed hosting giant, Rackspace. During his tenure at Rackspace, Bryce teamed up with co-worker Todd Morey and created a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site -- all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision, along with help from former employer Rackspace, was turned into Mosso. Currently, Bryce oversees all operations for over 30,000 managed websites served by Mosso.
[Publish Date: June 23, 2008]
Speaker: Gina Trapani: ETech 2008 - O'Reilly Conferences, March 03 - 06, ...
Gina Trapani (link: http://ginatrapani.org) is a tech blogger and web developer based in San Diego, California by way of Brooklyn, New York. The founding editor of Lifehacker.com (link: http://lifehacker.com,) a weblog on software and personal productivity, Trapani authored a book based on the web site which is in its second edition: Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better. Currently she is a columnist at Harvard Business Online and co-hosts This Week in Google on the TWiT Netcast Network.
[Publish Date: March 03, 2008]
0 to 60 in 3.1: MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 - Co-presented by MySQL & ...
By Tyler Carlton, Cory Sessions
We did it! Hear how we went from a third party database system to a 60G MySQL Cluster hosting large external web services and intensive internal data applications flawlessly, in three months.
[Publish Date: April 14, 2008]
Amazon Web Services and the lack of a SLA - O'Reilly Radar
By Artur Bergman
I am interested in understanding the business tradeoffs that people make when they decide to host their data on S3 or run their service on EC2 instead of investing in their own infrastructure. Quoting from the Amazon T&C. We further reserve the right to discontinue Amazon Web Services, any Services, or any portion or feature thereof for any reason and...
[Publish Date: June 21, 2007]
