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Just wanted to share some information I gathered at the HostingCon mostly based on the Tier1 research.

Current and Emerging Trends
Pricing and commodification pressure
Growing competition
Consolidation = stronger players: The Planet, 1&1, Host Europe, HostMySite
Customer needs changing: not just web space, POP e-mail and barebone servers
Mobile access accelerating
More of business and personal lives moving online
More content moving online
Web-based application usage soaring
Hosting more of a common denominator
Increased need for storage

Internet Giants: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Intuit, Apple, eBay, Salesforce.com
Social Networks: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Xing
Functional Hosters: Flickr, Ning, Photobucket, YouTube, Blogger, SmugMug, ChannelMe.TV, Wetpaint

2009 Headlines
Major outages at Rackspace
Go Daddy now has over 36 million domains
HostMySite buys Hosting.com
Cloud platforms rolling out
The Planet and Peer1 enter Europe
Rackspace re-focuses push into cloud
Endurance International, Hostopia rolling up shared hosters
Aplus exits shared hosting business
Google Wave introduced
Intuit acquires CRM, mobile payment platform
SoftLayer pushing hybrid infrastructure concept

Strategies
Seek partnerships to help expand your products and services
But also build your own. Why?
Options for customers
Intellectual property ownership
Hedge against partners

Messaging, CRM, business applications - Microsoft, Google, Zoho, SiteForum
E-mail - Microsoft, Google, Open Xchange, Scalix, Tucows, Hostopia, Zimbra
Cloud infrastructure - 3tera, Abiquo, Primacloud
Cloud storage - Parascale, Nirvanix, Mezeo
CDN - Edgecast, Internap, Aflexi

Services - online marketing, search engine submission, web design services, logo design, incorporation services, etc.

More to come :)

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