Web Hosting Strategies
Analysis and review of the web hosting and managed services industry by Doug Kaye.
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Volera Joins the Fray. "Volera, which plans to begin rolling out the Web services software in October, joins a growing list of content delivery companies that are taking a serious look at Web services. CDNs Mirror Image and Akamai have both announced plans to support Web services on their networks." [Network World Fusion]
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:47:13 AM 
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CIO Insight has published an interesting research study on outsourcing. A few highlights:
- The use of service-level agreements rose from 66% in 2001 to 81% in 2002, with 86% saying they intend to use SLAs in the future. Uptime level guarantees also rose, from 49% to 65%.
- The projected trend for 2002 is to cut back on outsourcing the functions that have been outsourced most frequently—most notably the development and hosting of applications and Web sites, due perhaps to the availability of dot-com veterans and laid-off IT staff.
- Demand for web site development outsourcing services is projected to drop from 42% last year to 30% this year, while demand for Web hosting should decline from 44% to 33%.
- Web site hosting was employed far more by smaller than larger companies, 58% to 38%, respectively.
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:39:34 AM
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App Servers Want to Be Free. "The market has been expecting the commoditisation of the application server space for some time. HP has been giving away its product for some months and now Sun is doing the same with its core capabilities. It can only be a short time before IBM follows suit but it is questionable whether BEA can afford to do the same." [The Register]
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:59:58 AM
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