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HostingCon 2009<br />
Wrap-up<br />
HostingCon 2009 may officially be over, but the networking and<br />
business relationships continue to prosper as we move into another<br />
year of web hosting industry news, innovations, and products and<br />
services. This year’s HostingCon 2009 brought with it a new owner – iNet<br />
Interactive – a leading social media company operating prominent online<br />
communities for technology professionals and technology enthusiasts.<br />
iNet Interactive’s goal from day one was to develop a program that would<br />
rival any previous HostingCon shows. To say the least, they succeeded.<br />
The Setting<br />
The event was bigger than any previous show with attendance up 10-15%<br />
over HostingCon 2008. In its fifth year, HostingCon 2009 was held in<br />
beautiful Washington, DC at the Gaylord National Resort, nestled in the<br />
newly built National Harbor, MD. National Harbor is a complex of hotels,<br />
shops, restaurants, and condos overlooking the Potomac River that runs<br />
through Washington, DC. National Harbor may have been a 20 minute<br />
drive south of downtown Washington, but well worth the trip and the stay.<br />
The Atmosphere<br />
The atmosphere at this year’s HostingCon 2009 show was very different<br />
than any of the previous years’ shows. Attendance was up, sponsorships<br />
were booming, and people were excitedly sharing the latest news and<br />
information on what the prominent companies are launching. People were<br />
eagerly greeting one another and introducing themselves, exchanging<br />
business cards, and introducing one another to other industry leaders.<br />
The Topics<br />
The hosting industry changes almost as fast as technology changes.<br />
This year was no exception with cloud hosting and virtualization taking<br />
precedence over last year’s SaaS buzz. SaaS is still a prominent<br />
buzzword and hot topic, but cloud hosting and the technology that<br />
supports “the cloud” and virtualization was blazing the hallways, media<br />
rooms, booths, restaurants, and the couches placed throughout the<br />
convention center. Other popular topics include valuing and selling a<br />
hosting company, going green, and all the software and hardware to<br />
support “the cloud” and virtualization technology.<br />
The <strong>Tech</strong>nology<br />
From hardware to software to infrastructure to monitoring and more,<br />
companies are inventing technology to retrofit data centers into energyefficient<br />
facilities, developing patented software that can build a virtual<br />
data center in minutes with self-healing abilities, engineering cables<br />
that measure energy-efficiency, designing control panels that increase<br />
productivity and usability, servers that take up less room and boost<br />
efficiency, and other leading innovations that made HostingCon 2009 a<br />
conference worth attending.<br />
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