CIOs constantly wrestle with five common infrastructure sourcing problems and finding the solutions is no easy task. IT Infrastructure Sourcing. This is complex stuff. It’s difficult to find and decipher the most meaningful data and transform it into useful data. In a mission to assemble real-world transaction data, we’ve created a proprietary data repository that … Continued
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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 is quite a Gotham-size comedown … Continued
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Peter Gross joins company board of advisors to help address environmental and social responsibility challenges in enterprise data centers and outsourced co-location SANTA MONICA, Calif. – April 24, 2012. RampRate, the premier sourcing advisor for selecting locations and suppliers in IT infrastructure and cloud computing, today announced that data center innovator Peter Gross has agreed … Continued
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The key question is cloud service is the right fit for your specific jobs, whether today or in a few years, and what you should do to prepare. by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg As published by Microsoft TechNet In the 10+ years that RampRate has advised buyers of IT infrastructure services, few … Continued
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For casual readers, the one part of RampRate’s business that is externally visible and shines through in the blogs and articles is the SPY Index. With 137,000+ quotes it puts a real backing on our opinions, and gives some precision in estimating everything from power cost margins for suppliers that charge per circuit to impact … Continued
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As costs of video and other content delivery are rocketing towards zero, it may be time to reinvigorate revenue models that were ahead of their time a decade ago. Measuring effect of streaming video on the audience – did they consume it, did they focus on it, did they take follow-on actions – can become … Continued
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By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things stand out: 1) There is no actual deal, just a proposed compromise that no one actually likes 2) Everyone seems to be confused about the new, private Internet While more viable than its critics … Continued
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One of the biggest mistakes that buyers make when outsourcing for the first time is assuming that their internal performance standards (usually tuned to “net” server uptime) are what the provider is promising, whereas most of the time what they’re getting is a “gross” site uptime that excludes pre-scheduled maintenance and force majeure. We covered … Continued
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Trust is a double-edged sword. If you trust in the right things and the right people, you can accomplish much more than you ever could alone. In falling for myths and liars, you fail not only yourself, but also all those who trusted you. Today’s subject is how our misplaced trust eats away at the … Continued
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Everyone loves a format war. These things happen once every five years or ten years. The last one that happened was about ten years ago during the Real Media vs. Windows Media wars for domination of Internet video streaming. Many of us are old enough to remember the battle between Sony’s Betmax and JVC’s VHS … Continued
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