Jan
2
2009

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

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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Dec
17
2008

2008: Looking Back at Small Business Hosting Purchases

Small and medium-sized businesses found 2008 to be the year when many previously “leading edge” and “out of reach” technologies became accessible and, more importantly, critical to their bottom line.  In 2008, SMB technology teams, ISVs, and IT consultants were transforming their technology deployments to hosting services utilizing formerly out-of-reach technologies.

For the first time, SMBs were benefiting from solutions and technologies such as Software as a Service, Quad-Core CPUs, Virtualization, and the new Microsoft server technologies.

Software as a Service (SaaS) is now the preferred method for SMBs to consume software to meet their application and business process needs.  SMBs now clearly see that it no longer makes sense to buy software and hardware from traditional retailers and distributors.  The VARs and MSPs that service SMBs have moved from break-fix agreements to recurring arrangements with their SMB customers.  In 2008, SaaS became not only a viable option but in many ways the preferred solution.  Large capital outlays on new hardware and the associated big expenses on installation and upgrade licenses are now seen as the not financially advisable and inefficient.  Hosted dedicated servers and virtual dedicated servers enable SMBs and their VARs to quickly deploy new solutions and upgrades and save time and capital.
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