PEER 1 Hosting, the global online web hosting provider, has been named one of the top 25 ‘Best Workplaces, small business category’ by the Great Place to Work® Institute. A rigorous employee and management assessment of the company saw it ranked 16th on the UK small business list. Every year the Institute surveys some 5,500 organisations across the world, representing around 10 million employees, with only the best receiving a ranking.

PEER 1, known for its innovative recruitment methods and commitment to outstanding customer service has established itself as a leading employer on the South Coast. Growth of the company in the last 12 months has seen it open a £10 million custom-built datacentre in Portsmouth.
“Our staff focus on providing the service excellence which our customers expect, so we work hard to create a passionate and inspiring work environment for our staff, it’s a two way process,” said Dominic Monkhouse, EMEA MD at PEER 1 Hosting. “Winning this ranking doesn’t mean our task is over, we’ll continue to enhance the PEER 1 workplace, to become the best place to work in the industry.”

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PEER 1 Hosting, the global online web hosting provider, has been named one of the top 25 ‘Best Workplaces, small business category’ by the Great Place to Work® Institute. A rigorous employee and management assessment of the company saw it ranked 16th on the UK small business list. Every year the Institute surveys some 5,500 organisations across the world, representing around 10 million employees, with only the best receiving a ranking.

PEER 1, known for its innovative recruitment methods and commitment to outstanding customer service has established itself as a leading employer on the South Coast. Growth of the company in the last 12 months has seen it open a £10 million custom-built datacentre in Portsmouth.
“Our staff focus on providing the service excellence which our customers expect, so we work hard to create a passionate and inspiring work environment for our staff, it’s a two way process,” said Dominic Monkhouse, EMEA MD at PEER 1 Hosting. “Winning this ranking doesn’t mean our task is over, we’ll continue to enhance the PEER 1 workplace, to become the best place to work in the industry.”

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As a Gold Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, EffectiveUI is offering special passes to SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
EffectiveUI is a full-service user experience agency that architects and delivers custom software and applications that translate into exceptional digital experiences.
Our technology services team – the largest dedicated to user experience in the industry – has a passion for innovation and simplifying complex systems. We dive deep into technical challenges, bringing perspective to the big picture and quality to the details of every product.
EffectiveUI works with some of today’s top companies – including Adobe, Boeing, eBay, Microsoft, National Geographic, Navy Federal Credit Union, Oracle and United Airlines – to provide strategic vision and increase revenue, customer loyalty and user adoption.

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Guildford, Surrey – 30 May 2012 – Memset, an award-winning hosting company with private and public cloud infrastructure, has today rolled out its own API for customers to be able to manage their entire cloud portfolio. Memset’s API enables customers to perform many of the same operations they can currently perform with their web based control panel, but from their […]

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Register for a Cloud Expo Gold Pass and receive full access to the Cloud Essentials Certification as well as access for four days to all conference sessions at Cloud Expo June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York.
The Cloud Essentials course is a two-day, interactive, classroom-based learning experience. The course provides a balanced curriculum and addresses the business and technical perspectives of cloud computing. It will also explain how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud. The course enables participants to successfully complete the associated CompTIA Cloud Essentials™ Exam to become a Cloud Essentials™ Professional (CEP). In addition, the course complements the Virtualization Essentials course, which they can do either before or after they’ve taken the Cloud Essentials course.

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As a Silver Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, EnterpriseDB is offering special passes to SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise PostgreSQL Company, provides enterprise-class PostgreSQL products and PostgreSQL services to help IT organizations be successful with the world’s most advanced open source database. The company’s Postgres Plus products are ideally suited for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, massive scalability and compatibility with proprietary database products to reduce overall database costs. EnterpriseDB has offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

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OpSource, Inc., on Thursday announced that CEO and Co-Founder Treb Ryan will present at the tenth annual international Cloud Expo 2012 New York taking place June 11-14 at the Javits Center in New York City. The conference, hosted by SYS-CON Events, focuses on the latest cloud trends affecting enterprises today. This year, Ryan will outline the evolutionary journey of IT as core functions move to the cloud overtime. He has also been tapped to participate in a panel discussing strategies for cloud and big data. OpSource will also be exhibiting at the conference in booth # 236.
Historically, IT initiatives have been implemented on a per-project, integration basis–essentially, the antithesis of how cloud consumption models operate. How, then, would organizations rectify their business and IT objectives to ensure they remain on similar paths? The answer is to take IT to the cloud as well. On Monday, June 11 at 5:45 p.m. ET, Ryan will explore this idea and discuss the long-term benefits gained from transitioning to the cloud while delivering a presentation titled “Evolution of IT to the Cloud.”

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Many European companies may be moving to cloud now but they’re two years behind America in terms of cloud adoption, according to research house Gartner.

The analysts have put the difference down to a wide range of problems, including the diversity of Europe’s 44 different nations, the recession and Euro crisis, as well as European privacy rules relating to data protection.

Gartner elaborated upon these “inhibitors” and commented on each one. The report stressed that there were ways of using cloud safely, despite worries about privacy.

Similarly, Gartner noted complex business-to-business (B2B) issues related to Europe’s diversity, stating that because cloud computing was a fast growing business it will subsequently slow down the productivity of those who want to offer cloud services across Europe.

Regarding the EU in general, Gartner commented that while the EU legislative process was extremely secure, it was time-inefficient because of it and …

Surveys say…and many companies believe…that moving architecture, resources or other IT infrastructure pieces to the cloud will save them money.  That’s been one of the biggest selling points of cloud computing – pay as you go, metered service, pay what you use – the internet as a utility offering.  And while simple deployments can […]

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