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Coming from a position of strength in hosting, IBM continues its drive in the cloud services arena. But intensifying competition from a diverse set of rivals and an unclear economic picture could be big obstacles in the company’s path. This report contains insight and analysis of the product or service strengths and weaknesses, list of buying criteria and how the product or service fares in each category, and a comprehensive table of product or service metrics and … More >>
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IBM – Managed Web Hosting
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Verizon Business – Verizon Business Managed Web Hosting
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Product Description
With most of its highest integration hurdles behind it, Verizon Business is poised to make it a race for a larger share of the hosting market; however, new entries and incumbents are keeping the carrier on its toes. This report contains insight and analysis of the product or service strengths and weaknesses, list of buying criteria and how the product or service fares in each category, and a comprehensive table of product or service metrics and specifications. This … More >>
Verizon Business – Verizon Business Managed Web Hosting
Verio – PowerPlatform Managed Web Hosting
Sunday, June 6th, 2010Product Description
Verio coasts on its past merits, focusing on global hosting efforts largely aimed at SMBs while competitors are aggressively looking to capture new growth in cloud computing. This report contains insight and analysis of the product or service strengths and weaknesses, list of buying criteria and how the product or service fares in each category, and a comprehensive table of product or service metrics and specifications. This report is useful for purchasers who need … More >>
Verio – PowerPlatform Managed Web Hosting
Verizon Business – Managed Web Hosting
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Product Description
Verizon Business wants to move up the value chain by capitalizing on skills acquired in its hosting business to take on a more consultative role. To this end, the provider is expanding its professional services portfolio around virtualization. This report contains insight and analysis of the product or service strengths and weaknesses, list of buying criteria and how the product or service fares in each category, and a comprehensive table of product or service metri… More >>
Verizon Business – Managed Web Hosting
Shared Web Hosting or Managed Web Host – Which’s Better?
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
A website hosting is a service that provides individuals, affiliations and users with online systems for storing info, pictures, video, or other content. These informations can be accessed by the web.
Introduction to website hosting
Who are Web Hosts?
Web hosts are corporations that provide space on a server for hosting a site. They own large space on the server, which they share it to their customer’s’s providing net connectivity, generally in an information center.
While shared hosting is the most typical sort of hosting available, and excellent for most Internet site wants, managed Web hosts are far more acceptable for accommodating sites with serious traffic or those that contain delicate info, and security is a concern.
Paying for a dedicated server with managed hosting can become dear and is nonessential for little sites. Website host servers are gigantic and tough, and have satisfactory room and bandwidth capacity to host multiple net sites. Should your web site generate heavy traffic, and grow faster than expected, it may grow beyond your present hosting agreement.
In some cases, hosting firms will permit you to agree further space and bandwidth capacity to provide housing for the extra traffic.
If the company does not the choice to purchase an increased level of hosting is often available. Depending on the level of traffic, it may be time to think about moving up to a dedicated server with a managed host.
When to choose for a managed website host High-trafficked web sites, along with those that contain extremely sensitive or private information, are typically better suited on managed Web hosts.
Dedicated Web hosts, distribute one server especially for your Internet site. Put simply, your site won’t share a server with any other sites. Management and administration of dedicated hosts can take time, and it holds the owner of the site responsible for maintaining each facet of the site hosting server, that will also include security issues.
You will also need to explore options that include using shared web hosting prior to making a commitment to a managed or dedicated web host, as it may turn out to be adequate and will save you cash. When to employ a website hosting agreement If you end up on the opposite side of the fence meaning you provide Internet site hosting services to a client you will have to exploit a domain hosting agreement to control the linkage between you and the customer. You can frequently save an awesome period of time and money by utilizing website hosting agreement samples and templates. You should be in a position to buy a suite with templates related to website hosting agreements. Whether or not you are purchasing web site hosting or supplying it, it is important to pay close attention to the site hosting agreement. For users, you may discover what you cannot and can do on your net site, and what you could be entitled to. For suppliers, these agreements will protect you from liabilities related to the hosting of third party sites on your servers. To better understand what these agreements should include, check online for internet site hosting agreement samples.
Managed Dedicated Server Vs Colocation Hosting
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Web hosting can be done in a variety of ways, offering different levels of control and expense for the end user. For users who are well versed in web hosting theory and require a good deal of control, the choices finally get narrowed down to managed dedicated servers, and colocation hosting.
Managed dedicated servers allow a client to lease out an entire server for himself. The client gets full control over this server, and is responsible for every change made to it – administrative, pertaining to security, hardware, software, OS and so on. Some dedicated server hosting providers offer support for the operating system and applications, but this is rare.
Colocation services, on the other hand, provide external maintenance and upkeep for a server, but the server has to be bought by the client. The hardware and software configurations are decided by the client, and the colocation host merely provides the space to keep it, a steady Internet connection, power and cooling supplies, fire protection and such facilities. Clearly, this gives the client total control over the server. However, it is also the most expensive.
Here is a point-by-point comparison of the relative merits and disadvantages of dedicated servers and colocation hosting:
1. Control. A dedicated server is owned by the hosting company, and the entirety of the hardware is controlled by them. By contrast, the server in colocation hosting is owned by the client. This gives the client full control over hardware and software, leaving only maintenance and upkeep in the hands of the colocation host.
2. Initial investment. A colocation server needs to be bought. This is a much larger upfront cost than the down payment made to a dedicated server host.
3. Recurring cost. A colocation server can be left as it is for a few years after purchase. However, upgrading the colocation server will automatically raise its cost far above that of any dedicated server lease.
4. Availability of hosting. These days, colocation hosts are increasingly switching to dedicated servers, as these are much more profitable for them.
Colocation hosting, thanks to its high installation cost but relatively low upkeep, is most popular among companies who need huge databases.
Telecommunication companies, corporate giants and eCommerce enterprises are the most likely to avail of these services. For them, the dollars in rent saved add up to a substantial sum.
For most home users and small business owners, dedicated servers become the route of choice in web hosting. Dedicated servers come with the added advantage that the hosting company is in charge of maintaining the hardware. Yet, one gets to have the complete machine to oneself – which prevents virus or malware attacks on other users from impacting the system. This is one of the biggest advantages a dedicated server has over shared hosting or Virtual Private Servers.
From here, it is clear that managed dedicated servers and colocation hosting both have advantages and disadvantages – there is no winner or loser between the two. The choices should be made based on requirements and budgets – whichever you choose, you cannot go too far wrong.
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
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Datapipe Donates Managed Hosting Services to ToolBank USA
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Datapipe Donates Managed Hosting Services to ToolBank USA
Web Host Gives Support to Nationwide Tool Lending
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Finding Cheap Managed Web Hosting Services That Work Nonstop For You
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
There are many options available to you for cheap managed web hosting services, and your greatest challenge will be to choose the features that mean the most to you and your business , delivering the services that you wish to launch to the entire world. If you plan to offer flash, point of sale programming for instant online sales, and other advanced features within your site, you will probably want to try for a Linux or PHP web hosting option in order to keep your managed site more affordable and less troublesome than with Windows web hosting options. Cheap managed web hosting services don’t always have to mean lowered quality or lack of options, and in fact with the PHP option, the opposite is true.
The features that you will most likely be most concerned with will be price and overall attractiveness and usefulness of the site that you launch. You could pay nothing for the managed web hosting services that you choose, and this works well for those who wish to keep it simple and who are not planning to actually sell products or services through the site itself. If you are looking for a simple exposure site where you can describe your products or services and list contact information, or give potential clients a way of contacting you quickly with questions and comments, a free web hosting and site builder option is just the thing.
If yours is a more hardy endeavor and your site is to encompass many photo pictures, links, programs, scripts, and even flash software, you will need to consider cheap managed web hosting services that will allow you to either build the site that you want with the tools present upon the creation of your account, or use web building professionals through the provider in order to launch the perfect site for a low overall cost. Linux web hosting and the site building options that it offers are usually some of the easiest and most affordable available.
The more you know about the site that you wish to end up with, the better you will be at choosing the services and the site size that will best encompass your business and its offerings. You can consult with the representatives available in order to determine the best value for you based on what you would like to accomplish, and this is a great way to initiate the process.
Capco Expands Scope of Its Package Integration Services to Meet Financial Organizations’ Demand for End-to-End Managed Services
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – November 10, 2009) – Capco, the global provider of consulting and managed services to the financial services industry, today announced it is transforming its Package Integration services to expand its scope and reach and to provide seamless global delivery to financial organizations in North America, Europe and Asia. The Capco Package Integration Group now offers a full suite of end-to-end solutions — including package integration, software solutions, IT consulting and managed services — that are being implemented hand-in-hand with Capco’s consulting professionals across all financial services domains. Within these domains, Capco has expertise in Capital Markets, Institutional & Alternative Investment, Retail Financial Services, Treasury, Corporate & Transaction Banking, Retail & Commercial Banking, Wealth Management and Universal Banking.
The Package Integration Group is seeing significant demand from the world’s leading financial organizations — including banks, asset managers, hedge funds, brokerages, pension fund managers, and trading exchanges — for managed services to reduce their total cost of technology ownership by as much as 15%. And, as businesses reduce staff, they are enlisting expert resources to manage risk against loss of IP knowledge relative to legacy integration and specialized product applications.
Capco Partner Roop Singh will lead the Package Integration Group; he is also a member of Capco’s executive management team. Mr. Singh is considered one of the technology industry’s foremost thought leaders in package integration.
“Post-crisis, organizations are addressing their product management with an open mind towards buy versus build,” said Capco Partner Roop Singh. “Through clearly-defined, managed services they aim to reduce technology costs while increasing productivity and rely on Capco to maintain the knowledge base of their product applications. This allows for their product and delivery quality to remain consistent with their internal standards. Additionally, we’re seeing strong demand to ‘future proof’ application architecture against emerging technologies and enable clients to have the upstream integration required so their technology is up to date with the market.”
“Capco is at a tipping point in its history,” said Rob Heyvaert, CEO, Capco. “As the most experienced consulting and technology solutions provider to the financial services industry, Capco is making significant investments in talent and operations to meet our clients’ needs in every region of the world. With the expansion of our Package Integration Group, Capco now delivers a highly robust level of dedicated IT resources to businesses — in every domain we serve — as they operate in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. We are seeing a very positive response to our abilities to simplify the complexities that our clients face in the financial markets, which is Capco’s sweet spot.”
The Package Integration Group has approximately 300 dedicated professionals in North America and Europe with extensive experience serving the world’s top financial organizations; it has successfully completed more than 600 product installations and has access to 3,000 developers in Bangalore, India, for upstream integration of third party applications. The Group has deep expertise in complex package environments, including derivative and commodity markets, wealth management and provides full life-cycle management and support for specialist package vendors including Murex, Advent Geneva, OpenLink, Wall Street Systems and others.
The Package Integration Group is part of Capco’s recently announced North America growth strategy to serve the needs of a broader range of clients. The Group has leadership in each region of the world, including North America, Central Europe and India, and offices in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Bangalore.
As the global leader of the Capco Package Integration Group, Roop Singh brings more than 20 years of experience in financial services, business management, sales & marketing and IT consulting. Mr. Singh joined Capco in June 2009 from Wipro where he served as Head of Financial Services (Banking, Insurance and Securities) across Europe and was responsible for building Wipro’s Systems Integration service line globally. As a member of Wipro’s Europe management team, Mr. Singh led the testing and enabling practice for Wipro across Europe. Prior to joining Wipro, Mr. Singh was CEO for SSI Technologies providing near-shore and offshore development capabilities to the global financial services markets. Throughout his career, Mr. Singh has held senior positions in Europe, APAC and the U.S. for organizations such as Prudential, PA Consulting Group, Software AG, Amadeus, Ardent & Informix.
Based on its heritage, Capco continues to differentiate itself through its service excellence and dedicated focus on the capital markets and financial services arenas.
About Capco
Capco is a leading global provider of integrated consulting, technology and transformation services dedicated solely to the financial services industry. Our professionals combine innovative thinking with our unrivalled first-hand industry knowledge to offer our clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, and managed services to move their organizations forward. Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we help our clients successfully increase revenue, manage risk and regulatory change, reduce costs and enhance control. To learn more, contact us at + 1 212-284-8600 (+32 3 740 10 00 from outside the United States or Canada), or visit our Web site at www.capco.com.