News: Hosted Solutions Firm, Chosen to Deliver Virtualization Event for SaaS Pros
Charlotte, North Carolina - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 3, 2008 - Data center and managed web hosting services firm, Hosted Solutions, recently attracted 50 Boston area SaaS industry professionals, for its seminar at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
''How SaaS companies can utilize virtualization for disaster recovery/business continuity'' discussed how
SaaS (Software as a Service), distributes software via the Internet, and is quickly being adopted as a business model by technology companies because it eliminates the burden of installing software on customers' computers and alleviates the need for software maintenance, ongoing operation and support. It also reduces up-front expenses of software purchases. Hosted Solutions' client roster includes dozens of blue-chip SaaS companies.
Hosted Solutions' event discussed the convergence of SaaS and virtualization, a way of getting the most out of a company's investment in hardware by running multiple independent virtual operating systems on one computer. Discussions focused on how SaaS companies should use virtualization to maximize their investment in disaster recovery and business continuity.
Mike Lee, Boston Regional Manager at Hosted Solutions explained, ''Hosted Solutions was happy to work with our partners to address timely topics such as virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery. Our attendees were excited to discuss solutions that allow them to address the universal concerns of their end users - how to save time and money in this tough economic climate.''
Brian Baker, Hosted Solutions Vice President of Sales, kicked off the evening with a review of Hosted Solutions' state-of-the-art virtualization and BC/DR services.
Highlights included remarks from Hosted Solutions partners and SaaS experts Jamie Shepard of ICI America, Ray Patalano of Ciena and Brian Delaney of NEF, whose companies also sponsored the event.
The crowd was enthusiastic too for the demonstration on site-to-site SAN replication via EMC's Recoverpoint technology, which showed attendees how to have an extremely cost effective, multi-site implementation that also satisfies end users.
Hosted Solutions provides Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers' mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates SAS 70 Type II Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio.
Troy, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 3, 2008 -
According to a new research report conducted by search engine, information services and e-publishing company, GlobalSpec, companies within the industrial sector spent a greater portion of their marketing budget online in 2008.
''Trends in Industrial Marketing 2008: How Manufacturing Companies are Marketing Today'' is the third annual survey of marketing and sales professionals in the industrial and manufacturing sectors in the engineering communities.
Thirty percent of respondents reported spending more than 50 percent of their overall marketing budget online in 2008, up from 20 percent of respondents in 2007. On average, 37 percent of the marketing budget is spent online.
Despite the increased shift of marketing dollars to online media, respondents still faced a number of challenges in their marketing efforts. Forty-seven percent of respondents selected 'too few marketing resources' as one of their top three marketing challenges this year. Another 31 percent indicated that improving marketing ROI was a challenge for them. And while industrial suppliers are allocating more of their marketing budget online, they don't always know where to invest: 26 percent of respondents report that determining what online marketing programs work best remains a challenge.
The survey results also show that generating leads remains a top marketing goal - and challenge - for industrial marketers. Seventy-two percent of respondents indicated that either customer acquisition or lead generation was their primary marketing goal in 2008. In addition, quality of leads delivered was considered the most important factor when deciding where to allocate marketing budget, with lead quantity being less important.
GlobalSpec, Inc. is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, technical and industrial communities. GlobalSpec users benefit from domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content, including GlobalSpec's PartFinderSM product, and more than 60 e-newsletters - helping them search for and locate products and services, learn about suppliers and access comprehensive technical content. SpecSearch, GlobalSpec's trademarked search technology, allows users to search by specification more than 180 million parts in 2,300,000 product families from more than 24,000 supplier catalogs. For suppliers, GlobalSpec offers highly filtered sales and marketing opportunities, product promotion and brand advertising platforms, including the GlobalSpec Industrial Ad Network, and a wide range of e-media advertising and marketing solutions.
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News: Web Hosting Firm, Premier Hosting, Debuts Drop Ship Magazine
Menasah, Wisconsin - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 2, 2008 -
Webhosting service, Premier Hosting, Inc., celebrating its good BBB standing, has released its Drop Ship Magazine, charging small fees for advertising, with free drop ship listing services.
The goal for Premier Hosting was to use the site as a community and relationship builder among dropshippers. With no intention to turn a large profit, Premier Hosting's purpose is to attract dropshippers to an Online Magazine where they can:
1. Get a free listing.
2. Pay a small fee and have their website listed as a FEATURED Web Site
3. Provide banners on the left side - for a small fee
4. Allow Top Banners - fee as per impression
5. Partner Banners on right - FREE to dropshippers who resell PicNsell and place our ad on their home page
The objective is not to make money on this, but rather use it as a tool to gain partnerships with others. The fee is to give this Magazine some sense of worth to it- not a value of zero.
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News: Search Engine, Trulia, and Placecast Partner
San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 2, 2008 - Search engine, Trulia, has partnered with 1020 Placecast, using location information to target specific audiences for advertisers and deliver more relevant messages to them on Trulia.com.
Alistair Goodman, CEO of Placecast remarked, ''Once we know the place a user is interested in, we can derive a lot of useful insights about what kind of consumer they are, and then serve them a very targeted ad.''
Trulia presents advertisers with multiple opportunities to serve very targeted ads based on location and consumers' search behavior. Placecast is a cutting edge media company and we are excited to be working with them and their clients to build and deliver successful campaigns.
As an emerging technology capable of driving better performance, Placecast provides an ideal way to effectively target audiences and improve response rates by adding local relevance to national campaigns.
Placecast adds a new dimension to audience targeting by using location information as the key to relevance. In Trulia's case, the starting points are the real estate locations in which users express interest. Placecast's proprietary targeting algorithms correlate these with dozens of other demographic, psychographic and geographic data points.
For publishers in categories such as travel, events, tickets, real estate, weather, classifieds and career search, Placecast uses the location information already present on these sites to target audiences and customize messaging. Improved performance results in a dramatic increase in the value of ad inventory for advertisers, transforming remnant ad space into premium CPM real estate for publishers.
Sean Black, Vice President of Sales at Trulia noted, ''Turning locations into audiences is one of the biggest challenges facing advertisers today. Trulia presents advertisers with multiple opportunities to serve very targeted ads based on location and consumers' search behavior. Placecast is a cutting edge media company and we are excited to be working with them and their clients to build and deliver successful campaigns.''
One of the first advertisers to take advantage of this approach with Placecast and Trulia is leading car rental brand, Avis-Budget. Approximately halfway through a three-month campaign, Avis has seen its ads on Trulia perform strongly relative to other publishers. The Avis-Budget campaign is just the first of many in the expanded partnership between Trulia and Placecast.
Mr. Goodman added, ''Agencies and advertisers are really searching for ways to stretch their marketing dollars these days. As an emerging technology capable of driving better performance, Placecast provides an ideal way to effectively target audiences and improve response rates by adding local relevance to national campaigns.''
1020, Inc. is the developer and owner of Placecastâ„¢ Media, the first online advertising network to target highly sought-after audiences using location-based information across the Web, mobile, and Wi-Fi. 1020's groundbreaking Placecast service recently earned the company the OnMedia Top 100 Award, given to game-changing companies in the marketing, branding, advertising, and PR industries. Current advertisers include Microsoft Windows Mobile, FedEx Kinko's and Hyatt Hotels. 1020 is funded by Voyager Capital and Onset Ventures.
Trulia, Inc. is a residential real estate search engine and the fastest-growing U.S. real estate Web site (comScore), which has revolutionized online home search by offering a rich, intuitive user experience that points consumers directly to listings on agent and broker Web sites. By partnering with the real estate industry, including 93 of the top 100 largest U.S. brokers, Trulia helps approximately 5 million unique visitors per month find information on homes for sale using custom search criteria. The site also provides market trends and neighborhood data at the hyper-local level, as well as a real estate Q and A community that enables consumers and professionals to exchange information about their local markets.
Avis Budget Group, Inc. is a provider of vehicle rental services, with operations in more than 70 countries. Through its Avis and Budget brands, the Company is the largest general-use vehicle rental company in each of North America, Australia, New Zealand and certain other regions based on published airport statistics. Avis Budget Group is headquartered in Parsippany, N.J. and has more than 30,000 employees.
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News: Web Hosting DemoBuilder 7.1 Solution, Launches at DemoWolf
Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 1, 2008 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has launched its new release of the DemoBuilder 7.1 software, incorporating many new features, asked for by users.
The new features include the new Zoom-n-Pan feature, the ability to insert Flash video into your demos, the addition of Click-to-Continue, Play and Restart buttons, new scene transitions, the ability to execute Javascript, importing PNG files, and an improved timeline.
Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf remarked, ''The new Zoom-n-Pan feature is terrific. It will allow us to add another dimension to the custom tutorials we produce for clients.''
DemoWolf uses DemoBuilder to produce all their online flash-based support tutorials. These tutorials are available for web hosting companies to purchase and make available on their own websites, branded with their own company logos. However, for those companies that want to produce their own tutorials, purchasing DemoBuilder themselves is another option. DemoWolf also works closely with these companies who produce their own tutorials, as they quite often want to outsource much of their tutorial development back to DemoWolf.
DemoBuilder 7.1 is available in two versions: a Standard version and a Professional version. The Standard version has all the same functionality as the Professional version, except for full-motion recording and the ability to import video files. The standard version is currently available for $180.00 US (if purchased through DemoWolf's website, while the Professional version is available for $224 US. A 15 day free trial can also be downloaded from DemoWolf.com. DemoWolf is the authorized sales and support agent for DemoBuilder in North America, and as such has the ability to sell DemoBuilder at these discounted prices. When you purchase DemoBuilder you get 12 full months of free upgrades.
DemoBuilder is a powerful software tool developed by Tanida Inc, based in Romania. It is used to build interactive flash movies that show how applications and systems work. It offers a system that allows users to take a series of editable screen captures of a target application running on a desktop in order to produce flash simulations and interactive demonstrations of the application.
DemoWolf offers over 2200 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including over 700 voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). Available tutorials include cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, SmarterMail, RVSiteBuilder, Fantastico, Drupal, Gallery, WordPress and many more. There are several hundred more tutorials at various stages of development. New series to be released shortly include PayPal VOICE, H-Sphere 3.1 (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), DotNetPanel (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), and Plesk 8.3 for Windows (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice).
For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.
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