Mar
4
2010

SaaS As a Business and IT Delivery Model – Webinar Event

by William Toll

• What is SaaS? Where does your organization fit in?
• What is the Current State of the SaaS/Cloud Revolution?
• What is the Perspective of the End User-Buyer toward SaaS?
• What are the SaaS Delivery Model Options for ISVs?
• What are the Managed Services, Including On-Premise Options, for ISVs?
• What is the future of software delivery and consumption in a Managed Hosting and/or Managed Cloud Services environment?

For the answers to these and other questions, make plans to attend

SaaS As a Business and IT Delivery Model – a Webinar Event
According to Forrester’s Enterprise and SMB Software and Service Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009, the 2010 global IT market will rise by 8.1% in US dollars. Much of that growth will be due to applications supporting industry-specific business processes developed by firms like yours.
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Dec
22
2009

Reliability: The Holiday Season and Ecommerce trap – when downtime equals lost sales, and uptime equals lost revenues

by Sumeet Sabharwal

Holiday shopping season is crunch time for many businesses dependent on the revenues generated between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Increasingly, a large percentage of those sales are via online channels. IT infrastructure and availability is under the microscope, and lost sales from poor performing or offline servers compound an already high average Cost of Downtime (CoD). The question is: how can you accurately calculate those losses in order to responsibly protect your business. Understanding true downtime losses are the key to qualifying your availability requirements.

The tangible, obvious numbers are easy. Take the average daily sales total, multiply it by the percentage increase for seasonal holiday sales, multiply that number by hours or days of downtime, and you have a nice, easily understood price tag. It’s not the most accurate price tag however, and therein lays the danger. Intangible costs can ripple and escalate in unexpected and very expensive ways.

Let’s consider an imaginary SMB that sells a popular gadget. They have a shopping cart section of the website that moves 1,000 gadgets a day at a price of $10.00 per gadget.

1,000 gadgets X $10.00 = $10,000 per day in gross online revenue
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Sep
24
2009

Top 6 Reasons Web Design Agencies Select Windows Managed Hosting

by William Toll

Flexibility – With Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 – PHP and .NET both run equally as well. This comprehensive development and hosting environment enables Web design and development agencies implement custom and readily available frameworks and open source Web applications.

Easy Configuration – With AppCmd the new UI, plus centralized configuration, including delegation, Admins can now easily work with applicationhost.config and web.config files. IIS 7 now supports the flexibility and configuration needed to build complex, secure, and feature rich functionality. The new UI in IIS 7 makes it easier than ever to configure the Web server and Websites and applications on the server.

Performance – Optimized performance and resiliency. Several architectural improvements have been implemented in IIS 7 which enables better performance, throughput and in the case of PHP – outright seeped in execution.

Troubleshooting – With Failed Request Tracing administrators can peer into the web server and see detailed diagnostic information. With the Runtime Status & Control API (RSCA) administrators will be able to see what requests are executing in real-time.
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Sep
15
2009

Small Business Strategies to Limit the Risk and Affects of Data Loss

by Sumeet Sabharwal

Preventing unplanned downtime and business failure.

Protecting your business data is more important than ever due to all the catastrophic, unforeseen events that can damage or destroy your data permanently. Customer data, accounts payable, invoices, email and historical communications and business applications are the backbone of your company. Without your business data, your business could not move forward on a day to day basis. Imagine not being able to access your business data for an hour, a day, a month or possibly forever. Now you can protect your small business from data loss, prevent unplanned downtime, and prevent business failure. NaviSite, a leading dedicated and managed hosting services company, shows you how vulnerable your data can be without the proper backup plan in place.

Please Click Here to access the complete White paper and Learn how you can protect your business and focus on what you do best

Sep
8
2009

Beyond the Hype – Data Center Ratings & Your IT

by William Toll

Data center ratings have become an increasingly popular marketing point for dedicated web and application hosting providers, but what do those ratings really mean, and how do they impact the success of your business? By understanding how data centers are evaluated and scored, you can make a more informed decision about your specific business needs and maximize the value of your IT costs.

Depending on your point of view, you may focus on certain data center features when reviewing managed hosting and colocation providers. Some businesses are concerned with connectivity, others with environmental features, or physical security, or routing protocols; it’s a long and diverse list. At the heart of every individual concern is an overriding one and it’s the same for every business- uptime. As anyone who has spent time reading and evaluating service level guarantees (SLAs) knows, there are a lot of ways uptime can be defined.

Data center ratings ideally provide a standardized, industry accepted means to fairly and objectively review data centers, so customers can cut through the marketing hype and truly understand the differences when making important business decisions. In practice however, this hasn’t fully been the case.
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Jun
22
2009

HostingCon 2009: Be Part of the world’s largest gathering of Hosting Industry

by William Toll

HostingCon has always been web hosting industry’s most well-attended and esteemed conferences and this is year’s conference will be held between August 10th & 12th, 2009 at Washington D.C. and more than 2000 people from over 30 countries are expected to attend the event!

Hear us Speak at HostingCon 2009.

We have a special HostingCon registration discount code – that we are offering to our ‘community’, which can help you get upto $60 off the conference pass required to attend the event.
Discount Code is : NAVISITE2009

Click here to register for this event. Don’t forget to enter the discount code (NAVISITE2009)

We would love to meet with you at HostingCon 2009!

Jun
11
2009

NaviSite attends Mass Innovation Nights!

by William Toll

NaviSite was honored to participate in the third gathering of a great new event in the Boston, Massachusetts area.. MassInnovationNights.com allows companies large and small to showcase their new products to an audience of social media enthusiasts, mass media and potential customers.

NaviSite SMB hosting was featuring its recently launched Business Email service powered by Microsoft Exchange. With NaviSite’s Exchange hosting service, businesses of any size have access to corporate class email services like: shared calendars, BlackBerry synchronization, Free software including Outlook 2007 or Entourage 2008 for PC and MAC.
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May
18
2009

Rain in the Cloud, and Finding the Silver Lining

by Sumeet Sabharwal

The recent Google outage made a lot of people sit up and take notice. By some accounts, an outage that lasted a little over an hour impacted total internet traffic for the day by 5%. Gmail and other Google Applications were unavailable, and underneath the collective sigh of frustration was a decreased confidence in the ubiquity of ‘the cloud’. To their credit, Google reacted admirably to the problem, was up front with users, and had a resolution in place quickly. Despite that, a lot of people got a taste of the danger of having all the eggs in one basket.

It seems like an oxymoron, but free comes with a price. In the case of Gmail and related applications, that price is paid in limited functionality and reliability. The value of that price is a sliding scale. Taking an extra couple of minutes to track down an e-mail is a minor cost, having a primary business communications tool down is a major one. For casual users this isn’t a big deal, but in a business environment it’s a huge one.
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Apr
24
2009

Exchange 2010 Reveals Great Future for Business Class Email

by Sumeet Sabharwal

At NaviSite, we find the college basketball tournament kind of exciting, and yeah, we’ll probably tune in for the finale of Dancing With The Stars. But here at NaviSite HQ, when it comes to real excitement it’s hard to beat the recent announcement of Microsoft Exchange 2010.

The thing is, when it comes to NaviSite and Exchange, we go way back. We’ve been a leading provider of Exchange hosting for a decade, going back to 1999 with our offering of managed hosted Exchange 2k. We’ve spent the last ten years helping businesses of all sizes take advantage of the power and convenience of a Hosted Exchange mail solution, and with the advent of Exchange 2010, that high level of service and support will transform the way businesses communicate.
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Jan
2
2009

2009 – Looking Forward to Small Businesses and Their Dedicated Hosting Buying Trends

by William Toll

Small Businesses will find that the traditional Web Hosting industry will transform significantly in 2009, primarily due to the economic conditions that will continue to be a growing factor in 2009. Many of the smaller Web hosting providers will be in jeopardy as they try to continue their operations in this difficult and competitive market. The cost of capital, acquiring new customers, and servicing those customers appropriately will be too much for some of the smaller hosting providers.
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