Posted on October 19, 2010 by Jordan Gross
Followers of the enterprise storage world will also have noticed recently that 3PAR has been gobbled up by the monolithic HP following a rather entertaining love story included Dell and another mystery suitor. So what will happen to this rather wonderful and innovative storage business now? If history is anything to go by, most of the innovation and nimbleness will be sucked out and prices will rise. Fortunately for Ultraspeed, as a 3PAR customer, 3PAR are sufficiently ahead of the curve at this point that it will take a good few years for even the [undoubtedly expert] corporate flunkies at HP to have too much of an impact.
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Posted on October 8, 2010 by Richard Sedley
It’s only September but my kids are already starting to provide me with lists of what they want for Christmas.
>“You will remember Daddy won’t you?
You’ll remember what I’ve shown you.”
Sometimes I’m pretty spontaneous and buy stuff straight away after a single website visit (a single customer journey). Sometimes I prevaricate, make selections online, change my mind and leave, come back, add to basket, get distracted, check out another website, check my bank account, leave the website, a week later return and then finally buy something completely different from the high street store of the original company I was visiting the website of (a customer odyssey*).
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Posted on October 1, 2010 by Namuli Katumba
Ok, so you’ve been tasked with optimising your company’s online strategy, and you’ve got the developers, creatives, financials and marketing team on board. Everything seems to be falling in to place except that you also have to research in to the actual platform that this great new environment/portal/campaign is going to sit… You know this has something to do with hosting, probably you even know that this is something to do with managed hosting. But questions do still remain. How to differentiate between the multitudes of providers out there professing to be THE managed hosting provider for you? How to find something that is going to work for all the diverse people involved? How to find a provider that will fit with the overall company plan?
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