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Meet Us at the World’s Biggest Game Industry Event!
Leaseweb is excited to be returning to the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2018) with an even bigger presence than we had last year. We’re rolling out a 30×10 booth and bringing along our partners from Crytek to help tell the story of how they’re using Leaseweb’s platform to get as close as possible to their users.
Overall, the gaming market continues to surge. For consoles, PCs and even mobile devices, it is a golden age in gaming.
When game developers approach us, they primarily ask for three things: power, rapid scaling, and flexibility. Over the long run, it takes all three to build a stable and cost-effective platform.
Meet Us at the Biggest SaaS Conference of 2018
This year LeaseWeb USA will again be a sponsor at SaaStr in San Francisco on February 6-8. It will be one of the biggest SaaS conferences in the world, with three days of amazing content and high-quality networking. The event is expected to attract over 10,000 SaaS founders, VCs, and executives; all gathered around the theme “Learn & Scale Together.”
LeaseWeb has been hosting Internet companies for over 20 years. We have worked with organizations of all sizes including many young companies that have grown exponentially over the years using our hosting platforms. Furthermore, we have a solid understanding of what companies need to know when choosing a cloud solution for SaaS.
Not all SaaS companies are the same, but what they do share is a need to maximize their cost-to-performance ratio, something that can be a major factor in your choice of a cloud provider. Here are a few tips for selecting the best SaaS hosting partner:
- Know what you need. Write down your requirements before you start selecting your provider. Hyperscalers can be expensive; they can also present the perfect solution in some situations. Remaining realistic about your needs will save you money in the long run.
- Think about a hybrid cloud model. If your company experiences peaks in traffic on a daily or monthly basis, you might benefit from a hybrid cloud model, hosting some of the workloads on hourly-billed services and the base load on a longer contract that lowers monthly fees.
- Don’t forget about legacy software. Chances are good that you have some legacy software to host, too. Make sure your provider can connect your cloud services with your legacy software to avoid having data stored twice.
- Consider colocation. If you’ve already spent a significant amount on equipment to run your application and haven’t yet written it off completely, choosing a hosting provider that can host your machines and connect them to the cloud will allow you to utilize the benefits of the cloud without losing the investment in your equipment.
U.S. Data Center Upgrades for Even Better Performance
Last month, I wrote about five things you can do to ensure shorter load times for your sites. Today I want to look at a sixth, positioning your services as close as possible to your end users.
LeaseWeb entered the U.S. market in 2011, in part because our clients across Europe and Asia needed North America-based hosting. Over time, we’ve grown our presence, both organically and through acquisition. We now operate 10 data centers across the continent with local U.S. based support.
Positioning services closer to end users enhances customer experience by decreasing content delivery times. Geographic spread also provides the safest disaster recovery and remote backup solutions for maximum uptime.
E-commerce Success Requires the Right Partner
There’s a saying in the venture capital community: If you want money, ask for advice; if you want advice, ask for money.
It doesn’t work quite the same way with cloud hosting providers. But it is true that customers who ask us for advice during the pre-sale process are often the ones who end up saving money further down the line. The best approach is to start with an honest conversation about your needs and plans. Using an e-commerce company as an example: Is the business even and steady, or do you see major spikes around big sales? What are your plans for outbound marketing? Are your customers just in the United States or around the world? For what contingencies do we need to plan?
LeaseWeb and Citadel games at GDC 2017
As LeaseWeb USA is revving up to be part of the great success that is the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco next week (March 1st through March 3rd), understanding why LeaseWeb is a proud exhibitor is something I’d like to dive into.
For starters, we are excited to share details of LeaseWeb’s services and hosting platform at the largest annual conference of professional video game developers. These gatherings are always an opportunity to have deeper conversations that really focus on the best solutions for their true needs.
We are happy to be bringing a game developer and customer, Citadel Studios, along with us. Citadel is relying on LeaseWeb to host its new game and is also part of the LeaseWeb Startups Program, which provides financial and technical support to high-potential startups that allows them to quickly build and scale their new businesses utilizing LeaseWeb’s Global Hybrid Infrastructure.
Meet us at SaaStr Annual 2017
LeaseWeb USA will be the only hosting company in attendance at this year’s SaaStr Annual in San Francisco. The young conference, led by veteran SaaS investor Jason Lemkin, has already grown to more than 250 speakers and 10,000 attendees in just its third year.
This year’s theme – “Scale Together” – fits so well with LeaseWeb that it could almost serve as an alternate company tagline about the way we work with our customers.
LeaseWeb has been hosting Internet companies for almost 20 years. We’ve worked with companies of all sizes including many young companies that have grown exponentially over the years using our hosting platforms. Because of this, we have a deep understanding both the potential and pitfalls of rapid growth.
At conference booth 20, we’re looking forward to talking about a few key issues that virtually all SaaS companies eventually must tackle:
Protecting patient data with LeaseWeb
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a study released this week by the Ponemon Institute, a U.S. privacy research group, almost 90 percent of surveyed healthcare organizations reported they had at least one data breach involving patient data in the last two years; 45 percent reported more than five breaches.
Healthcare records are a prime target for hackers because they are such a rich source of information. Stolen credit card numbers expire quickly once the patterns of misuse are discovered. Personal identity information is far more persistent.
Software-as-a-Service: Agile, Innovative, Thriving
In the last few weeks, it seems that everyone has become convinced that the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sector is in trouble, thanks to a sudden decline in market valuations of SaaS companies like LinkedIn, Workday and Salesforce.
Those concerns aren’t without merit: In one week, the combined stock values of those three companies plunged by $22 billion, and in the first 9 weeks of 2016, the Bessemer Venture Partners SaaS index (which contains 38 cloud-computing companies) lost a mind-boggling $125 billion in value.
It would be easy to draw the conclusion that the SaaS industry is in the middle of a decline towards obsolescence, but it’s important to remember that the recent struggles of the tech juggernauts represented on the NASDAQ exchange aren’t representative of the industry as a whole.
In fact, a deeper look at the SaaS market reveals a far more positive perspective on the future of the industry. We host a tremendous number of SaaS companies, providing them with the capabilities and infrastructure they need to scale in accordance with market realities, and their numbers are expanding more rapidly than ever before.
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