When you arrive at a site that questions you to register for an account before you can access certain content or functionality, does that drive you away?

A recent research report shows that a site that requires users to register does just that, drives users away. On the flipside, the same report shows that in this area half of all users are attracted by personalization capabilities on a site.

So, on the one hand, we don’t want to register but, on the additional, we want personalization.

How can you deal with that in a way that finds a balance between the two? Perhaps social login is the answer.

Initially, the numbers

In Baynote’s 2^nd annual celebration shopping assessment, published January 2012, nearly 80% of respondents said they have some issues with sharing personal in rank in order to get a more personalized shopping experience.

Only 20.8% said they would have no problem giving up some in rank in return for personalization. Although this is a affront change towards customers being more comfortable giving up personal in rank compared to the previous year, it still means there is a settled issue here that anyone developing and running a website desires to reckon in this area.

In another study, this one by Janrain, we can find some more numbers concerning the willingness of users to give up personal in rank in order to get personalized content, in rank or functionality. Let’s look at some of the key numbers:

• 86% of users are bothered by having to make a new account when registering on a website.
• 54% may leave the site and possibly not return.
• 88% of users admit to having given incorrect in rank when making a new account on a website.
• 88% of users have left forms incomplete when making a new account at a website.
• 90% admit they have left a website if they forgot their password or login info, instead of going through the process of answering wellbeing questions or re-setting their password.

So, users are not too pleased to make a new account to register with a website. But if a website offers personalization options, users are more likely to return, buy from the website, and urge the site to others:

This paints a clear picture: users are willing to place up with a certain degree of registration but are likely to leave your site quickly and go somewhere else if it’s too intrusive or complicated.

So how do you find the balance between offering the personalization that users want without imposing too much of the registration headaches and annoyances they want to be without?

A possible remedy: social media login

The solution to this dilemma seems to be to make the registration process as simple as possible. Of course, there are plenty of suggestions for how to make your registration form less annoying and more streamlined, but one option that is arguably becoming increasingly well loved is social login.

Social login basically means using a social media account like Facebook or Chirrup to login to a site. Since most users by now have an account with one of the huge social media networks, they by now have an account to get access to your site. They typically need to allow the app, in this case your site, access to their social media arrangement, but that’s a process of a few clicks, far from the complexity of even a simple new account registration form.

The same study by Jarain we referenced earlier also shows that users are willing to let websites use social login to speed up registration. In fact, users even encourage websites to do this.

Some more key numbers from Jarain’s study, this time pertaining to social login:

• 77% of users believe that websites should offer them the opportunity to use a social arrangement identity to use to log in to the site.
• 41% of users would prefer to use a social login.
• 51% of the users surveyed say that social login’s personalization capability is attractive to them.
• 50% of users say that if a website offers a personalization of their experience, they are more likely to return to the site.

This clearly indicates that most users would be pleased to see social login implemented on your site, because it gives them a simpler login procedure, and they can still be offered the personalization they’re looking for.

How did you find the balance?

Joel Spolsky noted in 2003, “Small software implementation details result in huge differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels.” If you could make a small software implementation on your website and support social login, wouldn’t you do it? Especially if it means that more users will hang around your site, make buys, and return in the future.

If you run a site where users can have accounts, how did you find the balance between user registration and personalization on your site? And is social login something you have implemented by now or do you plot to include it on your site in the future?

Share your experience with us in the comments not more than.

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Is social login the answer to annoying and disruptive user registrations?

Every single day – well, except the weekend – we’re giving away a 1-year Basic Account package, worth nearly $120.

This promotion continues and one lucky person every day has a chance to walk away with this catch.

What we do is that each day, at a different time each day, we post a message to one of our social media accounts – Facebook, Google+, or Chirrup – with a link containing a money off code.

The code entitles the initially person that applies it to a transaction to a 100% money off on a 1-year Basic Package, worth $119.40.

Each day’s money off code can only be used once, so the initially person that applies it to a transaction gets it – initially come, initially served.

Note: This money off code can only be applied to new signups and upgrades, not to renewals. This is due to a technicality in our present system.

Excellent luck to everyone!

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So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive field name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube?

We’ve got answers to these questions and many more. A veritable smorgasbord of numbers, data and data lies in front of you. Using a variety of sources we’ve compiled what we reckon are some of the more fascinating numbers that clarify the Internet in 2011.

Email

• 3.146 billion – Number of email accounts worldwide.
• 27.6% – Microsoft Outlook was the most well loved email client.
• 19% – Percentage of spam emails delivered to corporate email inboxes despite spam filters.
• 112 – Number of emails sent and received per day by the average corporate user.
• 71% – Percentage of worldwide email traffic that was spam (November 2011).
• 360 million – Total number of Hotmail users (largest email service in the world).
• $44.25 – The estimated return on $1 invested in email marketing in 2011.
• 40 – Years since the initially email was sent, in 1971.
• 0.39% – Percentage of email that was malicious (November 2011).

Websites

• 555 million – Number of websites (December 2011).
• 300 million – Added websites in 2011.

Web servers

• 239.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2011.
• 68.7% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2011.
• 34.4% – Growth in the number of NGINX websites in 2011.
• 80.9% – Growth in the number of Google websites in 2011.

Field names

• 95.5 million – Number of .com field names at the end of 2011.
• 13.8 million – Number of .net field names at the end of 2011.
• 9.3 million – Number of .org domains names at the end of 2011.
• 7.6 million – Number of .info field names at the end of 2011.
• 2.1 million – Number of .biz field names at the end of 2011.
• 220 million – Number of registered field names (Q3, 2011).
• 86.9 million – Number of public code top-level domains (.CN, .UK, .DE, etc.) (Q3, 2011).
• 324 – Number of top-level domains.
• 28% – Market share for BIND, the number one DNS server type.
• $2.6 million – The price for social.com, the most expensive field name sold in 2011.

Internet users

• 2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
• 922.2 million – Internet users in Asia.
• 476.2 million – Internet users in Europe.
• 271.1 million – Internet users in North America.
• 215.9 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
• 118.6 million – Internet users in Africa.
• 68.6 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
• 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
• 45% – Share of Internet users under the age of 25.
• 485 million – Number of Internet users in China, more than any additional public in the world.
• 36.3% – Internet penetration in China.
• 591 million – Number of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide.

Social media

• 800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
• 200 million – Number of users added to Facebook during 2011.
• 350 million – Number of Facebook users that log in to the service using their mobile phone.
• 225 million – Number of Chirrup accounts.
• 100 million – Number of active Chirrup users in 2011.
• 18.1 million – Public following Lady Gaga. Chirrup’s most well loved user.
• 250 million – Number of tweets per day (October 2011).
• 1 – #egypt was the number one hashtag on Chirrup.
• 8,868 – Number of tweets per second in August for the MTV Video Music Awards.
• $50,000 – The amount raised for charity by the most retweeted tweet of 2011.
• 39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
• 70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
• 1 billion – The number of messages sent with WhatsApp during one day (October 2011).
• 2.6 billion – Worldwide IM accounts.
• 2.4 billion – Social networking accounts worldwide.

Web browsers

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• 1.2 billion – The number of active mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
• 5.9 billion – The estimated number of mobile subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
• 85% – Percentage of handsets shipped globally in 2011 that included a web browser.
• 88% – Apple iPad’s share of global tablet web traffic in December.

Videos

• 1 trillion – The number of video playbacks on YouTube.
• 140 – The number of YouTube video playbacks per person on Earth.
• 48 hours – The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
• 1 – The most viewed video on YouTube during 2011 was Rebecka Black’s “Friday.”
• 82.5% – Percentage of the U.S. Internet audience that viewed video online.
• 76.4% – YouTube’s share of the U.S. video website market (December 2011).
• 4,189,214 – Number of new users on Vimeo.
• 201.4 billion – Number of videos viewed online per month (October 2011).
• 88.3 billion – Videos viewed per month on Google sites, incl. YouTube (October 2011).
  
• 43% – Share of all worldwide video views delivered by Google sites, incl. YouTube.
  

Metaphors

• 14 million – Number of Instagram accounts produced during 2011.
• 60 – The average number of photos uploaded per second to Instagram.
• 100 billion – Estimated number of photos on Facebook by mid-2011.
• 51 million – Total number of registered users on Flickr.
• 4.5 million – Number of photos uploaded to Flickr each day.
• 6 billion – Photos hosted on Flickr (August 2011).
• 1 – Apple iPhone 4 is the most well loved camera on Flickr.

What’s in store for 2012?

For 2012, there’s every reason to reckon that the Internet, by any measure, will keep on the rise. As we place more of our personal as well as professional lives online, we will come to rely on the Internet in ways we could hardly imagine before. For better or worse, the Internet is now a critical component in nearly everything we do.

We will be back again early next year to wrap up 2012. In the meantime, you may also want to check out our annual summaries for 2008, 2009, and 2010.

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Internet 2011 in numbers

As 2011 draws to a close we wanted to take a look at computer and in rank wellbeing in the twelve months that have passed.

What will probably stab in most public’s minds is the Sony PlayStation Arrangement and Qriocity hack, which resulted in an outage lasting 23 days. In additional developments, hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec took to social media to further their causes, and mobile malware got more attention than ever before.

All in all, there’s no doubt that 2011 was a very busy year for IT wellbeing professionals.

Malware

• 76.76% – Trojans accounted for this share of new malware samples.
• 49.97% – The top 10 most prevalent malware specimens accounted for nearly half of all infections.
• 26% – This much more malware was produced in the initially month of 2011 compared to the same month the year before.
• 150,000 – The number of new malware samples per day.
• 73,000 – The average number of new threats produced and released every day.
• 62.6% – China had the highest rate of infections of any public around the world.
• 4 million – The number of machines spread over 100 countries that the malware DNSChanger was estimated to have infected.
• 41,000 – The number of computers in the Kelihos botnet, full down by Microsoft in September.
• 3.8% – The percentage of emails in which malicious files were found in June.
• 44.7% – The share of all malware that was hosted in the U.S.
• 38.03% – The share of .txt, the most common malware file extension, out of all malware in January.
• 87% – This percentage of websites used to spread malicious programs were concentrated in just 10 countries
• 25% – The percentage of malware-infected websites that used video and multimedia as bait.
• 89% – The number of users who would urge to friends and family tree using Macs to install antivirus software.

Social networking

• 72% – Percentage of companies that restrict access to social networking for employees.
• 23% – The percentage of phishing out of all attacks in social media.
• 97% – The share of respondents on FaceBook and Chirrup that said they clicked on links without checking for malware.

Hacks and breaches

• 9,651 – The number of active credit card details stolen when Anonymous hacked Stratfor, which affected 50,000 public.
• 1.3 million – Sega had this many customer accounts exposed in June.
• $2.4 billion – The estimated cost of the Sony PSN hack.
• 17 – This many Sony websites may have been hacked during 2011.
• 37,608 – The number of SonyPictures.com passwords released by LulzSec.
• 2/3 – A majority of the passwords from SonyPictures.com were found to have been used on at least one additional site as well.
• 1.8 million – The number of video gamers affected after hackers penetrated Square Enix servers.
• 32% – The increase in healthcare breaches.
• $6.5 billion – The estimated cost of healthcare breaches.
• $3,000-$4,000 – The going rate for a botnet-based attack toolkit on the black market.
• 531 – The number of rogue certificates generated when DigiNotar’s certificate authority servers were hacked.
• 210,000 – The number of Citigroup customers (in this area 1% of the total customer base), which had account in rank compromised in June.

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• 40% – The share of mobile malware targeting Android.
• 10,000-14,000 – The estimated number of downloads of 22 SMS malware apps published to Android Market and shortly pulled by Google
• 85% – The share of smartphone threats during August 2011 that targeted Android.
• 34% – At least this much of Android malware was stealing users’ personal data.
• 472% – The increase in Android mobile malware from July to November.
• 273% – The increase in mobile malware in the initially half of 2011.
• 55% – Spyware was the main mobile malware threat.
• 2.5 million – The estimated number of mobile malware strains in 2011.

Spam

• 79.55% – The percentage spam out of all messages in January.
• 20x – The increase of fraudulent spam.
• 50% – The share of spam traffic originating in the top five source countries in October 2011.
• 70% – The level spam dropped to from 90% in 2009.
• 47% – Percentage of attempted submissions to prominent social bookmarking sites that were spam.
• 14.8% – Percentage of spam that originated in India during the third quarter, the highest of any public in the world.
• 8 million – The number of public mistakenly spammed by the New York Times.
• 12.5 million – The number of spam messages needed to sell $100 worth of Viagra.
• 20% – The market share of the most common spambot type.
• 53.6% – The most common spam category was pharmaceuticals.

Phishing

• 146 – This is how many new phishing sites hosted on government domains around the world that Netcraft found in July.
• 43% – The percentage of employees that received a simulated phishing email with fake Facebook or Chirrup updates from a reputable and trusted server that clicked on a link in the email.
• 2,500 – McAfee found this many new phishing sites per day in the initially quarter of the year.
• 48.77% – Percentage of phishing attacks in January that abused the .com TLD.

Vulnerabilities and exploits of software

• 80% – This percentage of WordPress vulnerabilities involving plugins.
• 95% – This percentage of Drupal and Joomla vulnerabilities involving plugins.
• 2 – For the initially time ever, the top 10 rating of vulnerabilities included products from just two companies: Adobe and Oracle.
• 7 – Adobe Flash Player’s share of the top 10 vulnerabilities.
• 99 – The number of Microsoft patches during the year (down from 106 in 2010).
• 30% – The percentage of Microsoft’s wellbeing patches during 2011 that were critical (compared to 70% in 2006).

DDoS attacks

• 250,000 – The number of computers taking part in a DDoS attack on an unnamed Asian e-commerce company, producing 45 Gbps of traffic.
• 77 million – Number of user accounts being compromised in the Sony PSN hack.
• 5% – U.S. and Indonesia each accounted for this percentage of DDoS attacks.
• 88.9% – The percentage of HTTP flood out of all DDoS attacks.

Miscellaneous

• $7.7 billion – The price Intel paid for McAfee (the deal was announced in 2010 but completed in 2011).
• 91% – Share of companies that experienced at least one IT wellbeing threat from an external source in the last 12 months.
• 30% – Share of companies that felt they were being specifically targeted by cyber-attacks.
• 64.21% – The top intrusion mechanism detected in the second quarter was generic SQL booster.
• 56 MB – The size of the compressed file released by LulzSec, supposedly containing the source code for the Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Arrangement.
• 82% – Symantec found that wellbeing is the top interest for participants in its Disorder of Cloud Assessment 2011 [PDF].

Let’s hope for a better 2012

That just in this area wraps up our summary of the disorder of wellbeing in 2011.

Trying to include a complete year in one post like this is certainly not simple. Did we miss any significant wellbeing-related numbers for 2011? Tell us in the comments not more than.

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Wellbeing in 2011 by the numbers

Comments from readers is an vital part of most blogs out there, and our own is no exception. We still run the defaulting WordPress comment functionality but have been thinking for a while now in this area installing some kind of third-party comment system.

Something like Disqus, Facebook Comments, Livefyre, or IntenseDebate would allow us greater functionality, spam management, moderation capabilities, and more.

But which system should we go for?

We investigated the Top 100 Technorati list to see what some of the largest blogs in the world are using and here’s what we found.

Disqus the dominating third-party comment system

As we went through the blogs in the list it was quickly evident that most sites choose to run some sort of self-developed comment system or one that is native to the publishing system used (like WordPress’ own comment system). Most of these fall into the “additional” category in the chart not more than.

But in the competition between third-party comment systems – the main ones being Disqus, Facebook Comments, IntenseDebate, and Livefyre – Disqus is in a commanding lead.

The exact numbers are as follows:

We could perhaps argue whether some things should be included in the “additional” category or not. For example, AOL seems to use its own comment system on at least some of its sites. Similarly, Gawker has its own system, which is in house on all its blogs, and it seems to have been a success. In our numbers, both AOL and Gawker sites are in “additional.”

Comment system controversy

Few sites have been public in this area their choice of comment system, but there are some exceptions.

Early in 2011, TechCrunch switched to Facebook Comments and concluded that it has “silenced the trolls.” And although Facebook seems to be effective fine for them, we’re concerned in this area the single login (you can only comment if you have a Facebook account) and that the comments are not saved into WordPress.

And whichever third-party comment system we choose, it is just that, a third-party system. That means it’s more code to load and more things that can go incorrect.

Especially Disqus, perhaps due to its commanding spot, has been accused of causing performance issues on sites, particularly in terms of pages being slow to load.

Help us out

This all leads to the question of which comment system we should choose.

We find the built-in WordPress comment system increasingly inflexible and frustrating to work with. Clearly, we need something that allows for better spam management, comment moderation, and all around quicker and smoother workflow.

After trying many third-party comment systems and reading comparisons of features, we’re still looking for your advice.

So help us out guys, give us your input on what comment system we should go with for our blogs. And perhaps we should cast our net wider and look at something like Realtidbits, InstaComment, Pluck, or others.

You can of course use the comments not more than but you can also ping us on Chirrup.

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Chirrup is on the rise and evolving, and the service clearly desires plenty of new users to join its folds. Though, try registering a new Chirrup account, and come up with a username that isn’t by now registered. You’ll soon find that there’s some honest username depletion going on.

Things wouldn’t be so terrible if the person who had by now full your brilliantly though-out nickname was really using that Chirrup account. But take a look around and you’ll find lots of examples of users who clearly have just produced a Chirrup account, signed in once or twice, and then never used the service again. And since Chirrup accounts never expire, that username is now gone for all time.

And it’s not a small problem. Chirrup could have more than 100 million unused accounts. In January, Chirrup reported that it had nearly 200 million registered users, a number that has surely grown significantly since then. In September, Chirrup reported that it had 100 million active users (users who sign in at least once a month). Quite a difference.

Never mind money, jobs, and real estate…I wonder what the youngs will do to us when they realize we’ve full all the excellent usernames?

— Jason Kottke (@jkottke) December6, 2011

Chirrup really, really should consider freeing up usernames. Remember, usernames are far more vital to Chirrup than they are to Facebook or Google+. Arguably, the two latter don’t even have usernames in the traditional sense. In Chirrup, you use that @username handle everywhere. It’s a vital part of the service.

An open letter to Chirrup

It’s time to start deleting unused accounts. Start liberating usernames so that real, active users (and those elusive new users) can get their hands on them.

It doesn’t have to be complicated. If a Chirrup account is completely unused for six months, go ahead and delete it. If you must, send an email to users before you do it and give them a week to sign in to avoid having the account deleted.

Granted, you’ll have fewer “registered users” to boast in this area if you start deleting unused accounts, but this is the right thing to do. Your users will have a more positive initiation to your service and a better user experience.

Besides, the number of registered users really is an irrelevant figure. Just get on board with the trend Facebook started and consistently talk in this area “active users,” users that have signed in within the last 30 days. It’s more transparent, and more relevant. From what we can judge, a name at Chirrup has by now made that choice so it should be a non-issue.

Finally, perhaps we should clarify that in malevolence of this somewhat critical post, we do like Chirrup. (Obviously, we use it a lot, you can find us at @pingdom.)

Thank you for listening.

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Chirrup, how in this area liberating some usernames?

The Next Web published an article in August entitled “How text messaging as we know it will die in 3-5 years.” In the article Niall Harbison argues that the advent of smartphones and apps such as WhatsApp results in users transitioning away from SMS to these alternative messaging options. So let’s try to see what we can find out.

Here are the numbers we could find for some of the more well loved SMS alternatives:

• WhatsApp crossed a milestone in October, when it announced sending over 1 billion messages in a single day.
• The only number we could find for WhatsApp competitor Kik was “over” 4 million messages sent in a day back in June 2011.
• When it comes to RIM’s BlackBerry Courier BBM the closest we get is billions of messages sent each day.
• Mark Zuckerberg stated in this area a year ago that more than 4 billion messages are sent on Facebook every day. Note that this is not exclusively messages sent with mobile Facebook clients.
• Apple’s iMessage is still very new and it seems that only Cupertino has any numbers on that service.
• There are several additional VoIP and messaging applications, like Skype, Viber, Fring, Nimbuzz and Tango, that should really be included here but data on volume of messages are hard to come by.
• Let’s also add Chirrup for reference. In June 2011, Chirrup reported that 200 million messages per day was posted in its system.

So is “IP cannibalization real”? It may be in some markets, where the volume of SMS sent is really declining, but on a worldwide scale, it seems SMS is still king. In fact, based on the data we’ve collected, there are still more than twice as many SMS sent worldwide as there are messages on the alternative services collective.

SMS still policy but growth is slowing down

In its report The World in 2010: ICT Facts and Figures, the International Telecommunication Union or ITU, stated that the number of SMS sent has tripled in three years from 2007. ITU’s estimate for 2010 was 6.1 trillion SMS sent, which equates to in this area 16.7 billion per day.

For 2011 the total annual number of SMS messages should exceed 7 trillion. We included WhatsApp just as a reference.

Even though the number of SMS may have tripled according to ITU’s numbers, it still means a decline in the growth of text messages. From 2007 to 2008 the growth was 58% and the following years it was 53% and 41% respectively.

As data connections become more ubiquitous and affordable, SMS will see more competition, but for now, SMS still policy the roost. Adding to this development is of course the increased popularity of smartphones and feature phones that become increasingly packed full of features and functionality.

Disintegration helps SMS stay ahead

As Harbison points out in his post on The Next Web disintegration of mobile platforms may be, for now at least, the saving grace for SMS. Different apps don’t necessarily talk to one another and you’re dependent on having an app for the mobile device you want to use.

SMS, on the additional hand, works with any mobile phone, whether it’s a smart-, feature- or additional phone.

So the various SMS alternatives typically requires an app installed and, of course, a data connection. movable data coverage is available to many users but it’s not always affordable, and relying on Wi-Fi means you’re not always connected.

This means we’ll have to deal with excellent ole SMS for quite some time yet.

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SMS growth in decline but still crushes mobile messaging apps

And now for something small and sweet, or bittersweet if you worked at MySpace back in 2006-2007 when the social arrangement was still going strong.

To say that Facebook stole MySpace’s thunder in those years is probably the understatement of the decade. By the end of 2008, the social media focus (and mindshare) had by now shifted away from MySpace to Facebook in a massive fashion. A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case, a chart:

Chart courtesy of Google Trends.

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Chart showing how utterly Facebook has ruined MySpace

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Jelastic Software today confirmed its team of consultants, assembled for its indigenous platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Java hosting curriculum. The Jelastic Java PaaS is supposedly capable of running and scaling “any Java application” without having to change code. Interested users will be able to obtain the Jelastic Java PaaS through an international arrangement of web hosting companies, as per the announcement.

The team, described as “tech all-stars”, includes:

Nginx developer Igor Sysoev – Sysoevs Nginx web and mail proxy server holds over 43 million users. Over 20 percent of the 1000 most-visited web pages such as WordPress, Facebook, Dropbox, and Hulu use Nginx.

Entrepreneur and Groovy++ creator, Alex Tkachman, has been effective as a software developer for over 15 years. He is an active participant in the Groovy++ and Grails communities – continually engaged in developing new content. Tkachman also co-founded G2One Inc., which then SpringSource bought. Once the CEO of JetBrains, the public responsible for IntelliJ IDEA; Tkachman presently is part title-holder of MB Technologies, the company behind the Bindows Ajax platform.

International sales and business developer, Soeren von Varchmin, has been effective in sales and business development for cloud technology innovators and service providers, all over the world, for over 10 years. Varchmin has previously assumed senior executive positions at Emporis, ePages and Parallels – Parallels is the leading software provider to web hosting companies. Varchmin is also a venture capitalist, co-owns Runa Capital and is currently effective as a director at von Varchmin International.

Michael “Monty” Widenius, the chief executive detective at Monty Curriculum, is the brain behind the MySQL open source database. He also produced additional major database server’s viz., MySQL AB, MariaDB and Monty Curriculum Ab. Widenius is further credited for developing storage engines, and additional related technologies such as the Aria and My SQL.

Jelastic hopes to benefit from the vast experience and apparent intellect of these chosen techno wiz, super performers. Jelastics CEO, Ruslan Synytsky, gushed, saying, “these advisors bring a wealth of invaluable experience in database, web and Java technologies, as well as sales and business development, to our Jelastic team.” “With their help, we are intent on making a rich technology ecosystem and building a global arrangement of hosting partners for the Jelastic cloud platform,” he further encouraged.

Jelastic frees users from the requirement of writing new programming language, and code for distinct Java applications; the Jelastic PaaS does not need explicitly written content for two different application programming interfaces (APIs). Jelastics PaaS offers multi-platform functionality and is compatible with “any JVM-based application counting pure Java 6 or 7, JRuby, Scala and Groovy…Supported application servers include Tomcat 6 and 7, GlassFish and Jetty.”

The company currently offers it’s PaaS for hold through web hosting service provider ServInt (U.S) and Host Europe (Europe Union). Additional international hosting providers will soon be added to this list of carriers.

The company has had its PaaS Java platform in testing stages for the past few months. The Java hosting curriculum has been made available to more than 1500 registered developers and subsequently used in developing over 1000 applications since mid-2011.

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Liquid Web cloud hosting offshoot, Storm On Demand, instituted another round of price reductions for its bandwidth services, effective as of now. The price cuts, described as “significant”, are applicable to both current and prospective Storm On Demand users.

The new pricing model includes free inbound data transfer while offering outbound services at dramatically marked down rates of $0.05 per gigabyte – slashing customer invoices by nearly 80%. The cloud hosting company previously charged $0.15/gig for outgoing bandwidth; inbound transfers were $0.08/gig.

“These price reductions are a result of our ongoing arrangement improvements counting expanded arrangement capacity and the addition of many vital new peering partners,” the Storm On Demand press release clarifies. The company now partners with Google, Amazon, Facebook and others, as per the official statement.

The company has also reduced prices for its bandwidth bundle plans, counting free inbound transfers. Users of both bundled and non-bundled bandwidth packages will realize savings beginning immediately.

Storm On Demand sees the new pricing structure as further proof of its commitment to providing customers with superior bandwidth solutions at affordable rates, stressing, “Storm on Demand is simultaneously humanizing our networking infrastructure while also reducing costs to customers.” The new bandwidth payment plans allow “users to breed instant savings by not paying for bandwidth they’re not using and not paying a premium for the bandwidth they are using,” ensuring that “ users…receive the best pricing on bandwidth, even for low usage.”

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