Burlington, MA August 11, 2006 – groupSPARK today announced plans to be one of the main sponsors at this year’s Hosting Transformation Summit in Las Vegas, NV.  The 2006 Hosting Transformation Summit: Hosting 2.0 will focus on the future of the hosting and Internet Infrastructure Services (IIS) industry as it grapples with the opportunities and challenges that accompany heightened attention, increased capital investment and an onslaught of Web2.0 start-ups.
The event will cover the evaluation of leading Internet brands (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay) as a hosting platform for businesses Discussion of how the Web2.0 start-up spree is helping and/or hurting the sector Insights into changes in the pricing model for various Internet infrastructure services and discussion of technologies that help reduce cost and complexity in the hosting platform.  Real-life case studies of enterprise customers’ experiences with outsourced hosting.  First-ever details on a new T1R market forecast for IIS services by target customer size.  Discussion on the sustainability of the investment climate for these services In-depth analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOTs) for key companies along with an ‘ask-the- analyst’ panel on both days to address your specific burning questions.
groupSPARK CEO, Ravi Agarwal, will be on hand to present information on Hosting, the challenges and opportunities that the future will provide.  “This is a good opportunity for us to continue to use the momentum of groupSPARK to help other understand the opportunities that exist already as well as the impact hosting will have on their business going forward,” said Mr. Agarwal.
 

The summit will take place Sept 19-20 at the Mirage in Las Vegas.  Visit www.tier1research.com for more information.
 

About groupSPARK
 

groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
 

Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes.  Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, 24×7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
 

groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company.  Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting. 
For more information please contact:
 

Al Maguire
Marketing Manager
groupSPARK
781-273-6245 x641
amaguire@groupspark.com
www.groupspark.com
 

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