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How the marketing department at one of America’s top 10 home builders uses dedicated hosting

Meritage Homes is custom home builder that has already constructed more than 60,000 homes across the southern and western part of the United States.   The company is now ranked as the tenth largest homebuilder in the country, on the Forbes’ Platinum 400 – Best Big Companies of America, the “Fortune 1000” largest corporations of America and has been named Texas Builder of the Year five times.  The company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol MTH.

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Project Gatsby Provides Advisory Services and Expertise for Virtualization and Cloud Services

When I first heard about Project Gatsby, I was intrigued by the name, immediately associating it with the great American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

If the Great Gatsby celebrated the great Jazz Age of the 1920’s, its message was in the sense of reality that it brought, as our country was going through an era of cultural and economic transformation.

As we go through this economic recovery, the companies and individuals I get to meet through this blog collectively share a sense of opportunity that as businesses are re-tooling, they are also looking at lower cost and more efficient ways to conduct business.

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Independent Software Developer Turns to Dedicated Hosting For System Administration and Support

Ori Rajwan is an independent software developer and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv.  His advise on moving to dedicated hosting is simple:  find the environment you feel most comfortable with and go for it.

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Forbes: Abolish Cloud Computing? Not the idea. Just the phrase.

Forbes’ Lee Gomes has an insightful story where he discusses the term, cloud computing.

Gomes postulates, “… the phrase “in the cloud” is altogether different. Like all jargon, it is opaque and euphemistic rather than vivid and direct. Being “in the cloud” sounds like an undertaking involving magic carpets and gossamer wings. Who wouldn’t want to be up there, high in the sky?”

Maybe it’s really a case of computing over the Internet is going mainstream.

Take a couple of minutes out of your day to read this story.

What’s your take? Comments, always welcomed.

Modern Day Arcade Uses Dedicated Hosting to Let Extreme Gamers Really Game

Step into The Cell CyberLounge and you’ll find a bank of  sixteen high end, custom built PCs made just for gamers. The company’s founder and CEO, Sean Maddox not only offers a unique facility for his customers to play the latest and coolest games, but he’s building a community of gamers who can share their most extreme wants and desires when it comes to hardware configuration, hot gaming titles and even a chance to compete in tournaments.

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Mediaroots Executive Has Roots in Entrepreneurship – Starting at the Age of 15

At the age of 15, Zain Jaffer decided to become an entrepreneur, hosting fan sites for teens. As a high school kid in West London, building sites not only kept young Zain off the streets in a rough area, but helped prepare him for a college and now, a graduate school school career.

Zain is currently working on his Masters degree in  Technology Entrepreneurship, from  University College London, where he also takes specific classes at London Business School.  Zane’s courses are academic and practical, where he gets to learn from world class professors as well as  investors, entrepreneurs, angels, and VCs.

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