I got a chance to interview Jack Zubarev, President Service Provider Division of Parallels, and he told me that if you are loosing money or if your company is failing, the cloud is not going to fix the problem. I found this statement to be very satisfying because of how true it is. If your [...]

The Press Room made my cry. It was the single most beautiful thing I have seen in my 10 years of covering the Web host industry. Coffee, snacks, water, power sockets in the long table, coffee, comfy chairs, coffee, and did I mention comfy chairs? Journalist heaven, but I digress.
After a healthy breakfast (which sadly, [...]

In a departure form Parallel Summits of the past, 2009’s Summit is taking place in sunny Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.
Monday was called Day 0 by event organizers for the fact that it was a day to unwind before the conference sessions and speeches.
The day started with an invite [...]

Part 2 of my interview with Tom McCafferty, Director of Marketing and rockstar of Vyatta.
David: What was the original design of the company? Was it originally just to be software or did you want software and hardware at the same time?
McCafferty: Software definitely software..we still consider ourselves a software company. We haven’t changed our [...]

At HostingCon 2008, I managed to sit down with many movers and shakers of the industry. My interviews are more conversations between professionals and as such can take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. Due to this, I have split the interviews into numerous parts. The following is my interview with Vyatta representative Tom [...]

The conclusion to my interview with Michael van Dijken and John Zanni, both from Microsoft.

Part 2 of my interview of Michael van Dijken and John Zanni of Microsoft from Hostingcon 2008.

At HostingCon 2008, I managed to sit down with many movers and shakers of the industry. My interviews are more conversations between professionals and as such can take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. Due to this, I have split the interviews into numerous parts. The following is my interview with Microsoft representatives Michael [...]

Although there were actually quite a few lessons to be learned from this years HostingCon, I have managed to boil them down into the 10 most important ones or the 10 most important lessons for myself.