Apr, 2016 : HostingCon Experience Maximized by Interactive Sessions
📅 - HostingCon is approaching quickly and the educational sessions will add a more interactive experience for attendees. The will come in many different forms from listening to prepared speeches to round-table formats and more. There will even be Q&A sessions with experts, which have been very popular in the past.
Four topic tracks will be featured, which include Issues and Trends, Management, Sales and Marketing and Technology. These will be presented in a traditional conference format with “Lightning Talks,” as well. .
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Oracle is claiming that Google needs to have a license to use the parts of the Java platform they are using in Android. The battle started a few years ago and in 2012 the jury was split on the case. The newer trial covers six more versions of Android including Lollipop.
Oracle is seeing about 10 times more than what it originally was seeking in 2012. .
📅 - Eleven, a High-Performance Internet Company, will be Integrated with the Cisco Meraki Cloud - Eleven recently announced they will integrate with the Cisco Meraki cloud networking solutions. The services offered by the company target the hotel industry. Cisco Meraki is headquartered in San Francisco, California and provides products for distributed wired and wireless networks. Eleven was founded in 2001 and it's headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
The Meraki cloud will add more value to the ElevenOS, which is being used by Eleven for their customers. The platform allows companies to generate tiered Internet packages and provides multiple billing options, as well. .
📅 - Dell’s Perot IT Services Business to be Purchased by NTT - NTT Data plans to buy the IT services business of Dell. This was announced on Monday and NTT Data plans on integrating the Dell Services into their IT services and their business process outsourcing division as soon as possible. Once the deal closes, which is supposed to be in the $3.1 billion range, it will cause a huge increase in the NTT Data presence in North America.
While this acquisition is going on, Dell is also working on a $67 billion acquisition of EMC. Dell Services data centers will also become a part of the NTT global platform, which includes about 230 data centers all across the globe. .
📅 - Domain Services for Google Moving to .Google - Google recently announced the launch of a beta website for the domain portion of the business. It will be moved to a TLD for Google, which will be domains.google. This was a quiet announcement made last Tuesday by Google Small Business and they sent out an invitation for customers to check out the new TLDs they have available.
The original site was nic.google, which was used to redirect to the registry page. However, that page was moved to registry.google. This page provides information about the Google domains for ale including .app, .how and .meme. .
📅 - Managed Cloud Server Launched by TurnKey Internet - TurnKey Internet is a green data center services company and they recently announced the launch of Managed Cloud Server Options for customers. The company was founded in 1999 and it's headquartered in Latham, New York. They offer sustainable IT solutions including many web hosting products.
The new offering will enhance common cloud server options by providing managed services, such as optimization, cloud migration and security. The company also offers services for hardware, software support and network support. They also include VPS set up and server security. .
📅 - 7 Fun and Useful Plugins for WordPress - WordPress provides a ton of plugins you can use to increase the usability of your website, along with making the site look a certain way. There are plenty of great plugins out there, but not all can be described as both useful and fun. Here are seven plugins that fit this description perfectly.
Monarch Social Sharing Plugin
Sharing your content on social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others is essential to your growth. The Monarch Social Sharing plugin allows your visitors to easily share your content with a floating sidebar, pop-ups and even image options. It provides an easy to use plugin with plenty of great features to make sharing great content very easy.