rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
"Collectively, SYS-CON readers from these countires make up more than 30% of our daily readers," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Media. "By launching local sites for our readers, we will be able to maximize our content offerings for our international audience. Each of these international SYS-CON sites will also emerge as the leading i-technology portals in their respective countries."
"SYS-CON's international sites will offer a selection of content from all the i-technology topics we cover every day, in addition to the local breaking news, views, events, and interviews with technology leaders and opinion makers in these countries," said Roger Strukhoff, president of SYS-CON International. "Our readers who live in these countries will land on the SYS-CON local home page(s) and be greeted in their own language before they navigate to a certain section of our site."
"We have been running geo-targeted advertising campaigns for our advertisers for the past five years," said Carmen Gonzalez, senior vice president of advertising and sales at SYS-CON Media. "Our advertisers are thrilled with this new opportunity that our international Web sites enable in delivering their geo-targeted messages most effectively to our readers."
SYS-CON is projecting it will double its readership from these countries by the end of this year and an exponential growth going forward. Each of these international sites will run independently as the most respected i-technology resources in these countries, some through licensing partnerships with leading local i-technology publishers
To inquire about SYS-CON's international editorial offerings, please contact Roger Strukhoff at roger@sys-con.com, or by phone at 201 802-3022.
For more information on how to take advantage of new online advertising opportunities, please contact Carmen Gonzalez at advertising@sys-con.com, or by phone at 201 802-3021.
About SYS-CON Media
SYS-CON Media, listed in Inc 500 three years in a row as the fastest growing, privately held publishing company in America, is the world's leading publisher exclusively serving i-technology markets.
Each month SYS-CON Media reaches over two million i-technology professionals through its specialty journals, magazines, conferences, education programs (www.education.sys-con.com), SYS-CON.TV (www.SYS-CON.TV), the world's first branded blog community (www.blog-n-play.com), and the SYS-CON interactive portal with more than 100 Web sites at www.sys-con.com.
About SYS-CON Events, Inc.
SYS-CON Events, Inc. (www.sys-con.com/edge) is the world's leading producer of i-technology developer conferences and expositions, including Web Services Edge - International Web Services Conference & Expo.
Contact: Roger Strukhoff (editorial) Company: SYS-CON Media Voice: 201 802-3022 E-mail: roger@sys-con.com
Contact: Carmen Gonzalez (advertising) Company: SYS-CON Media Voice: 201 802-3021 E-mail: carmen@sys-con.com