WebhostingDay 2009: Visitors and Exhibitors Equally Satisfied by Biggest Hosting Event in the World

HUERTH, Germany - A conclusion, which could already be drawn in the forefront of
WebhostingDay 2009, was confirmed not later than on the second event day: the
conference, which took place from March 18-20 near Cologne, Germany was the
world-wide largest event for the web hosting industry so far. With about
2,000 visitors and 55 exhibitors, WebhostingDay defied the general bad
economic climate and was able to gather the most important members of the
leading IT and Telco companies from all over the world to do some social
networking and to learn some industry news.

Regarding the number of visitors, the event could grow by about 80
percent in comparison to the previous year. In terms of the partner
companies, which contributed talks and fair booths, an increase of more than
30 percent was achieved. “What gives us more pride than the hard facts,
however, is the solely positive feedback we received both from the exhibitors
and the visitors,” comments Thomas Strohe, founder of WebhostingDay and CEO
of intergenia AG, on the event’s success.

The visitors delivered their thanks and congratulations in numerous
e-mails. Some examples: “Congratulations with yet another superb WHD. I think
you did a fantastic job”; “Hats off and big applause for this great event! I
already thanked the team for their great job - it was a full success, both
regarding business contacts and the whole organisation of catering and fun!”;
“A fantastic event, perfectly organized and with top-class speakers. My
compliments”; “Great show, I found it very informative and hope to be able to
participate again next year.”

One of the major topics this year was, of course, cloud computing. For
example, in his talk “The Next Generation of Optimized Computing”, Serguei
Belloussov, CEO of Parallels, gave an answer to the question how service
providers and businesses can profit from this technology. And Jochen Polster,
marketing expert from AMD, dedicated his speech “Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM)
Processors to Increase Business Opportunities, Enhance Service Quality and
Deliver Energy-Efficient Solutions for Global Cloud Computing Customers” to
the best hardware for cloud computing environments, especially with regard to
CPUs. Moreover, SaaS was still an important topic in 2009, and was dealt with
in various talks at WebhostingDay. Among those Stephan Martin’s
(Open-Xchange) talk “Teamwork and Mobile Collaboration based on Open-Xchange
SaaS Platform” or Jens Schneider (visionapp) with his speech “Expand your
Business with an Out-of-box SaaS platform”. The slides of all talks will be
available for download soon at www.webhostingday.com.

WebhostingDay is scheduled again for next year. It will probably take
place March 24 to 26. Companies, which are interested in a partnership for
2010, can go ahead and contact the organizing team in order to get pencilled
in as a prospective partner. Attractive discounts on the sponsoring packages
will be given to early birds.

Information about the organizer: intergenia AG is one of the leading
suppliers of professional web hosting and server solutions in Europe. As a
pioneer in the area of dedicated server hosting in Germany, the company
represents a perfect synergy of innovation, high-tech and know-how with its
brands PlusServer, serverloft and SERVER4YOU.

Press contact:
intergenia AG
Thomas Strohe
Daimlerstrasse 9-11
50354 Huerth, Germany
Phone: +49-2233-612-0
Fax: +49-2233-612-144
E-Mail: presse@intergenia.de
www.webhostingday.com
www.intergenia.de

Source: intergenia AG

Press contact: intergenia AG, Thomas Strohe, Daimlerstrasse 9-11, 50354 Huerth, Germany, Phone: +49-2233-612-0, Fax: +49-2233-612-144, E-Mail: presse at intergenia.de