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Managed Services RFP Managed Services RFP Harm Suppliers and Buyers Alike As a seller of IT managed services, you may spend hundreds of hours on a quote only to find that you really had no chance because the game was rigged. It can be obvious and heavy handed: The RFP ignores your strengths, but itemizes your competitor’s… Read More »Avoiding The Rigged Managed Services RFP
March 3, 2014
Landlords Double as Energy Brokers RampRate Article from the New York Times Posted MAY 13, 2013 – Read the full article Here The trophy high-rises on Madison, Park and Fifth Avenues in Manhattan have long commanded the top prices in the country for commercial real estate. With yearly leases approaching $150 a square foot. So it… Read More »Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
May 12, 2013
IT Sourcing By Alex Veytsel – One of the panels I most regret missing at Data Center Dynamics annual London show last week, where our CEO spoke was a discussion of the future of data centers in 10-20 years. Fortunately I got to participate in the prep session for it in the speaker’s lounge, where brilliant folks… Read More »Future of IT Sourcing Negotiations
November 27, 2012
CSRHub Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scores Will Drive Triple Bottom Line in IT, Data-Center Supplier Choice SANTA MONICA, CALIF. May 16, 2012 – RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the premier sourcing advisor for IT infrastructure and cloud computing, has integrated CSRHub’s corporate-social-responsibility scores into its proprietary SPY Index decision hub, enriching it so that IT decision makers… Read More »CSRHub Scores Join RampRate’s SPY Index
May 15, 2012
Business At The Speed Of Light In the low-latency world of high-frequency trading, some will lose, no matter how smart their systems and people. Can you catch up? Or should we slow them down? Speed thrills, especially near the speed of light. For Wall Street traders, speed creates new fortunes on the world’s fastest networks,… Read More »Business At The Speed Of Light – What is a Millisecond Worth?
February 28, 2012
Investing It’s Time For A New Wave Of Investing “You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” – Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” By Tony Greenberg, CEO RampRate Sourcing Advisors / DeepStrat A week before Groupon’s initial public offering, Henry… Read More »When Valuations Don’t Mean Valuable
November 16, 2011
Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu – Congratulations should go to News Corp., Disney, and NBC Universal for finally creating an online company so big and successful that tech industry giants may stumble over each other to acquire it. Does Hulu or its buyer get the short stick? Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Dish Network, and DirecTV appear… Read More »Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again
September 20, 2011
Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory. I’m placing my vote that Amazon should be the winner. Well, that is for a consumer win. There’s been a lot of courting to acquire Hulu from News Corp., Walt Disney, and NBC Universal’s Comcast.… Read More »Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu
September 20, 2011
Key Cloud Migration Decisions Most legacy applications have implicit assumptions about operating systems, hardware, geography, latency, throughput, scalability, governance, access rights, monitoring and other aspects that must be carefully addressed before deploying to the public cloud. by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg as published by Microsoft TechNet When faced with the many opportunities… Read More »Key Cloud Migration Decisions
August 18, 2011