Business Tips and Tricks
Last week, we published The Ecommerce Customer Experience to help site operators start thinking about the building blocks of creating an ideal customer experience. Taking the time to focus on the customer experience can mean getting a bigger piece of the pie, as 86 percent of surveyed shoppers say they’d be willing to pay more for an improved site experience. The infographic below details some stats around the importance of paying attention to your site experience and how ecommerce hosting on the cloud can help.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 14, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
Waiting 20 minutes to see a doctor when you have a concern, only to have them spend 75 percent of that time reviewing your file, sucks. It’s not an effective use of your time as a patient or for the professional caregiver. Cloud technology has enabled more heath professionals to use electronic health records, or EHRs, and it’s changing the health industry as we know it.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 14, 2013 by Andrea Michnik
Apple Co-Founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak reluctantly embraced a startup mentality with Apple Computer. Building home computers in a little garage was a moonlighting gig; a side project while he maintained his steady income as an engineer with HP. At the time, Apple had no money; but it had an idea – a home computer.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 13, 2013 by Dave Sims
Whether you have a hot mobile game, or an application that has to be up, you know that any downtime can upset customers. Reliable apps need a reliable cloud, and the Rackspace Cloud powered by OpenStack was created from the ground up to help make sure you stay online.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 10, 2013 by Garrett Heath
Want to know what our new Cloud Control Panel is and what it means for you and your business? Want a behind the scenes look at how we built and designed it? Curious how you can get the most out of our open cloud products and services that are available through the Cloud Control Panel?
Filed in Product & Development on May. 9, 2013 by Jim Battenberg
The hackathon we co-hosted with Sauce Labs last week to dive into Appium, the open source tool for mobile automation, was a brilliant success. Thank you to all who came out! We had such a great time that we plan to hold another hackathon soon.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 8, 2013 by Alexander Scammon
You can build a slick site filled with popular products and rock-bottom prices, but if customers don’t trust your site or find themselves unable to navigate from browsing to cart to payment, your site could be doomed for failure.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 7, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
Many CIOs still look cautiously toward the cloud – and rightly so. For large enterprises, making the move to cloud can be quite an undertaking and involve decision-makers from across the organization. The move also may require completely rethinking the way IT is provisioned. Despite the effort involved, it’s hard to ignore the payoff and long-term benefits of cloud. In the article 5 Reasons Cloud Computing is Enterprise Ready, we explore the top reasons CIOs need to consider cloud in their long-term IT strategy. Here are few intriguing stats from the article:
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 7, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
Roughly 30 Rackers attended DevOpsDays Austin last week (April 30 and May 1), an event that has become the conference that brings development and operations together. This year’s was the largest yet with almost 400 attendees – it was twice the size of last year. The energy there was contagious, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 6, 2013 by Lillie Hejl
Work would be a better place if we all did something we loved, don’t you think?
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 6, 2013 by Andrea Michnik