January 23rd, 2009
Online auction site eBay has chosen a suburb of Salt Lake City as the site for a $334 million data center project. The company said yesterday that it has purchased land in South Jordan, Utah in the Daybreak Commerce Park, not far from whereOracle Corp. (ORCL) is building a huge data center.
The state Office of Economic Development offered eBay $27.3 million in tax incentives over 10 years to build the facility in Utah, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The data center is expected to create about 50 jobs with wages averaging $49,200 a year, about 50 percent above the Salt Lake County annual median wage.
The facility, which could be as large as 250,000 square feet, would continue a regional expansion that has seen eBay acquire a large data center in Phoenix and expand its facility in Denver. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Business and Economy, Kauffman Foundation, Real Estate, Salt Lake City Utah, Salt Lake Tribune, United States, Utah, WestHost
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January 23rd, 2009
According to a variety of online sources, unsolicited email - otherwise know asspam, is responsible for up to 90 percent of all email messages sent and received. A pair of high profile spam lawsuits and prosecutions are shining a spotlight on the tactics used by spammers and the efforts of legitimate email providers to thwart them.
In the first case at hand, a Detroit man is accused of fraud and money laundering charges after he admitted to earning over $3 million by sending millions of unsolicited email messages to inflate the price of certain Chinese stocks and then selling the stacks at a profit.
Mr. Ralsky is accused of using not only illegal email spamming means such as botnets, but also many legal means of tricking email recipients such as: placing false and misleading headers in the email messages, using proxy computers to disguise the email’s source, and using falsely registered domain names to send spam - thereby implying that the emails were legitimate. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Spam, United States District Court
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January 23rd, 2009
Exchange hosting has become a popular solution for small- and medium-sized businesses that want the same class of messaging and collaboration as large corporations, but cannot afford the expense of hosting their own exchange. Even large corporations have begun to view Exchange hosting as an alternative for maintaining quality while lowering overhead. By using Exchange hosting, companies are able to save a significant amount of money.
In order to host their own exchange, a company would need to purchase all of the hardware, including everything needed to create the security and redundancy level needed for the company. With a dedicated IT staff, it can take as long as 30 days for a company to get their internal exchange system fully operational. Maintenance of an in-house exchange system can often take well over 80% of the senior technician’s time, making it necessary to have IT personnel specifically for the exchange.
Using Exchange hosting eliminates the need for dedicated IT staff. With Exchange hosting, a messaging and collaboration environment can be up and running in minutes on a shared platform.
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Tags: Business, email client, Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook
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January 23rd, 2009
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Choosing a web host for your business is a very important decision. Most people take it for granted, but it is much more than uploading some files to the Internet. What do you really need to know about where your website is hosted?
My Mother Always Told Me to Share
Are you on a shared server or are you on a dedicated server? Shared hosting is an affordable way to host your website; you don’t have to worry about maintaining a server, and you have a cPanel interface to make managing your website simple and fast.
The downside to shared hosting is sharing resources of a server with other sites. If one site gets a sudden burst of activity, then the other sites could slow down or even worse, go down altogether. The great thing about Dolphini Shared Hosting is that we do not over-provision our servers like the “Daddy’s” of the world. As a result, websites have great speed as well as ample disk space with minimal downtime. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Dedicated hosting service, Shared web hosting service, Web Design and Development, Web Hosting
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January 22nd, 2009
It’s a safe bet that the Web hosting industry of the future will look very different from the one today’s hosting providers are used to, and that’s certainly cause enough.
Over the past year, plenty of signs have emerged that indicate the face of Web hosting is already starting to stretch and shift in new directions. No, the new winds of change include acquisitions of companies that deliver more than just additional hosting customers, a fresh generation of startups that look nothing like your father’s Web hosting company, and experiments with innovative ways to sell hosting to the next wave of customers.
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Tags: Business and Economy, Electronic commerce, Service provider, Web Design and Development, Web hosting service, Website, Yahoo
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December 17th, 2008
Michael Betts, a great customer of Dolphini’s, had the unique opportunity to take the ice, Monday night November 17th. He was privileged for a chance to ride the Zamboni at theNashville Predators Hockey Game. Although, the Pred’s had a tough loss, we were thankful to hear Captain Jason Arnott released from Vanderbilt so quickly.
Tags: Ice Hockey, Jason Arnott, Nashville Predators, Sports, Zamboni
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December 16th, 2008
Are you feeling the credit crunch? Most Americans are affected one way or the other. Higher grocery bills are hard to ignore at the checkout and many of us know of someone who has lost their job in 2008.
In my opinion, downsizing is a sign of the economy turning around. Companies realize that they need to cut-back and reorganize, and not continue the spending spree of the last decade. They are finally learning that to be more profitable in today’s economy a company needs to stick to its core competencies.
In 1990, the debate among business leaders, academics, economists, and others, was greatly enhanced by the publication of an article entitled, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. They coined the term “core competency” to describe competitive advantage of leveraging the collective knowledge, experience, and skills of a firm’s product lines.
So why are Solution Providers not feeling the crunch as bad? One word… Outsourcing.
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Tags: C.K. Prahalad, Company, Competitive advantage, Core competency, Gary Hamel, Outsourcing, Technology
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December 12th, 2008
Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight.
Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments. And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.
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Tags: Energy conservation, Microsoft
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December 11th, 2008
The New York-based consulting and services firm surveyed more than 4,100 consumers over the summer and found that service — more than price — is a clear differentiator.
According to the online survey, 67% of respondents reported switching companies because of poor customer service, compared with 59% last year. U.S. respondents were even more service sensitive, with 73% reporting that they switched companies owing to poor customer service, compared with 47% switching over lower prices.
Now, more than ever, is the time to challenge traditional practices. In particular, organizations need to segment their customers. That makes segmenting customers and understanding their touch-points with the business particularly important.
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Tags: Accenture, Customer base, Customer service, New York City
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