(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- UK Web hosting provider iomart Group (www.iomart.com) announced on Wednesday it has acquired Liverpool-based Switch Media (www.switchmedia.co.uk) for $2 million as it continues to expand its hosting offering to the UK market.This is the second acquisition made by iomart Group plc in the last six months, following November's purchase of UK hosting firm Titan Internet for nearly $7 million.Switch Media provides domain name and shared hosting services to … [Read more...]
April 8, 2011 By
How to Create a Culture Overhaul
How to Create a Culture OverhaulThis content from: Duct Tape MarketingThis post is one of a series of posts sponsored by UPS in support of the Inc Growco Conference held April 6-8 in Las Vegas, NVCulture is marketing. That’s my take anyway. Culture touches every part of an organization and that means it touches every part of the customer experience.Sometimes companies come to the painful realization that what they perceive as a product or sales problem is really a culture problem. People … [Read more...]
March 30, 2011 By
Faulty Switch Causes Massive Outage of BBC Website
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) experienced a major outage late Tuesday evening that prevented all of its websites from being accessible from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. local time.Many BBC visitors turned to Twitter and other social networking websites to vent their frustrations, including a few of BBC's own employees.BBC Archives controller Tony Ageh and data analyst Mo McRoberts were just two of the employees that voiced their own thoughts about the outage. … [Read more...]
