WHIR Webinars Series addresses a topic or issue each month, in the form of a panel discussion of relevant key players in the industry, moderated by WHIR editor Liam Eagle.
We intersperse our own panels with Sponsor Webinars that are of topics of interest to our readers and available to companies who wish to partner with us on their own Webinar presentation. Contact us to learn more.
Upcoming Webinars
Archived Webinars
Best Practices for Growing your VPS and Cloud Server business
- Date:
- May 9, 2012
- Panelists:
- Lowell Anderson, Director, Product Marketing, IaaS, Parallels
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor in Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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The demand for Virtual Private Servers (VPS) continues to explode, and can include everything from a single VPS to elastic, hourly-billed cloud infrastructure. Deploying cost effective VPS and cloud server solutions is the key to accelerating revenue and realizing profit. In this webinar we will share the results of our latest market research and the best practices to optimize your cost structure and drive profits from your VPS solutions.
Key Learnings
• Latest results of market survey describing VPS revenue opportunities today and in the future for cloud services
• Purchasing drivers and buyer preferences for VPS services
• Top best practices to follow to realize profit from VPS services
• Action plan to prepare for the future
Webinar Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm PDT / 2:00pm to 3:00pm EDT
Moderator: Liam Eagle, Editor in Chief, Web Host Industry Review
Presenter: Lowell Anderson, Director, Product Marketing, IaaS, Parallels
Presenter Bio: Lowell has more than 20 years of technology product development and marketing experience in enterprise software, business development, product planning, and go-to-market strategies. At Parallels Lowell is responsible for leading product marketing programs, campaigns and execution strategies for Parallels cloud infrastructure solutions. Prior to Parallels, Lowell was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at SchemaLogic. Lowell has also held senior leadership positions at Vallent (now IBM) and at Metawave Communications Corporation. Lowell holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an MBA from Seattle University.
Making Cloud Infrastructure Enterprise-Ready
- Date:
- April 11, 2012
- Panelists:
- Eric Hanselman, Research Director, Networks 451 Research
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor in Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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When thinking about building either public, private or hybrid cloud solutions, enterprises and service providers need to think about making the entire infrastructure agile – not just compute and storage.
Webinar Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm EDT or 11:00am to 12:00pm PDT
One part of the infrastructure that has lagged behind when it comes to the dynamic nature of the cloud is the network.
Industry expert, Eric Hanselman of 451 Research will share details about what service providers and enterprises need to understand when building cloud infrastructure with an agile network capable of supporting enterprise-class application.
Among other things, attendees will learn about:
- IT Spending trends
- Adoption trends
- Current Approaches to building the dynamic data center
- How to maximize revenue and profit with network services
- Extending the definition of Software Defined Networking
Presenter:
Eric Hanselman
Research Director, Networks
451 Research
Peek Inside the Next Generation of OpenStack Cloud
- Date:
- March 7, 2012
- Panelists:
- Joseph Gordon, Director of Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell; Steve Croce, Product Manager, Dell
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor in Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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Build your cloud with the next generation of OpenStack cloud solutions! Find out how OpenStack Diablo, Crowbar, and Dell’s next gen servers can make standing up a cloud faster and easier.
- Learn what you can do with OpenStack Diablo.
- Find out how you can use cloud operations (Cloud Ops) tools to evolve your cloud over time.
- See how you can get more performance and efficiency from servers designed for clouds and clusters.
Conquering the Cloud: 6 Pitfalls Preventing Scalability and How to Avoid Them
- Date:
- December 7, 2011
- Panelists:
- Jon McCarrick, Director of Product Marketing, Parallels Plesk Panel
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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We’re all using the same servers. We all have access to the same software. The resources available to each of us are plentiful. Yet, some of us are winning and some of us are losing. Why?
Scalability.
Success in today’s Cloud marketplace requires you to become a highly scalable organization with laser-like focus on efficiency and reproducibility.
Join us as we explore how you can avoid 6 common pitfalls to scalability. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of scaling your team, scaling your infrastructure and scaling your revenue to take advantage of the opportunity to successfully expand with the Cloud.
Learn How 1,000+ Cloud and Service Providers are Making Money with Veeam Software
- Date:
- November 16, 2011
- Panelists:
- Doug Hazelman, VP of Product Strategy Chief Evangelist and Spokesperson, Veeam Sotware
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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In just 18 months, more than 1,000 cloud and service providers have chosen Veeam Software. Learn how partnering with Veeam can help your business gain a competitive advantage in the industry, protect all virtual machines (VMs) in the hosted environment with a single solution and increase revenue with additional services.
See how you can partner with Veeam and:
1) Gain competitive advantage
2) Protect all VMs with a single solution
3) Increase revenue with additional services.
The Web hosting industry is at risk learn more about the Save Hosting Coalition
- Date:
- November 1, 2011
- Panelists:
- Christian Dawson, Chief Operating Officer of Servint and David Snead, Attorney & Counselor, W. David Snead, P.C.
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review & Co-Chair HostingCon
- Sponsor:
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This webinar is designed to provide information about the status of the coalition.
After three months of organizing, the coalition is poised for direct action. During the webinar, attendees will learn about the status of a letter on PIPA to the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee, organizational efforts designed to ensure a solid foundation for future efforts, and information about a new “kill switch” bill pending in the House of Representatives, that appears to be more damaging than PIPA.
We encourage those interested in Save Hosting to attend, whether you’ve heard our message before, or are new to the coalition. Now is the time to act, and we need your help.
Secure Your Cloud with a Strong Front-Line Defense
- Date:
- October 11, 2011
- Panelists:
- Zohar Alon, Co-founder and CEO of Dome9 Security & Rich Mogull, Founder and CEO of Securosis
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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You wouldn’t leave your car unlocked in a public parking lot…so why would you leave your server unlocked in the cloud?
Many of today’s 20 million cloud and virtual-private servers are vulnerable to attack. Open ports, like RDP and SSH, enable administrators to connect to and manage their clouds, but leave a gaping hole for hackers and malware like the recent Morto Worm to exploit. And what security’s available is too complex, costly, and cumbersome to manage.
Join leading cloud security analyst Rich Mogull and security veteran Zohar Alon as they discuss some of the top challenges to securing your cloud with expert advice and real-world examples, and demonstrate the power of Dome9′s all-new cloud security management service.
Right-sizing IT to increase revenue per sq. ft. in your data center
- Date:
- September 22, 2011
- Panelists:
- Deania Davidson, Product Marketing Manager, Dell
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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Find out how you can make $1.6M more per rack per year in your data center just by right-sizing your information technology.
• See the impact right-sizing technology at the server, rack and data center levels can have on your top and bottom lines
• Learn more about servers and cloud solutions designed specifically for hosting
VPS is dead, long live VPS
- Date:
- September 7, 2011
- Panelists:
- Lowell Anderson, Director of Product Marketing, IAAS Services Parallels
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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With many of the initial benefits from virtualization already being reaped, the growth of basic VPS as a service offering is slowing. The ever-evolving service and workload needs that SMBs now demand include elasticity, security, programmatic API-level access, and scalable virtual data centers. Cloud Infrastructure is quickly becoming the new standard and growth engine for delivering Infrastructure services to SMBs replacing traditional VPS.
Join us as we discuss how Cloud Infrastructure enables:
• New customer scenarios enabled with elastic, connected, load balanced virtual infrastructure
• How you can move from offering a single container VPS to providing a full cloud virtual datacenter to your customers
• How today’s VPS business, with new Cloud Infrastructure features will help you drive future virtualization growth.
Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack
- Date:
- August 25, 2011
- Panelists:
- Joseph B. George, Director, Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell
- Moderator:
- Liam Eagle, Editor-in-Chief, Web Host Industry Review
- Sponsor:
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An innovator’s dream, Dell’s™ OpenStack™ Cloud Solution is a massively scalable infrastructure-as-a-service cloud solution. It offers support for existing ecosystems, along with opportunities to influence future direction. Most importantly, it provides foundational components for cloud services. By building on the OpenStack foundation, you can deliver the best cloud for your applications.
In Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack, attendees will:
· Find out about one of the fastest ways to stand up an OpenStack cloud
· Learn about the development, implementation and operation of Dell Crowbar
· Hear how one company planned and implemented an OpenStack cloud for its business
Dell is one of the original partners in the OpenStack community, which has now grown to more than 70 partners and participants. To accelerate adoption of this powerful platform, Dell has worked to deliver a fast, easy OpenStack experience based on the Dell developed software, Crowbar.
Get started now with:
· An optimized OpenStack Cloud Solution
· The Crowbar automated OpenStack installer to speed bare metal deployment
· A free technical whitepaper that details the design of an OpenStack hyperscale cloud on PowerEdge C server technology
· Proven expertise to help you get up and running fast
Read more about the steps to design an OpenStack scale-out cloud in Bootstrapping OpenStack Clouds and more info at http://www.Dell.com/OpenStack
