Codero CEO Emil Sayegh says enough with the tech of the 90’s, step out of that closet.  For the typical business, it’s a provocative statement to think about.  Especially when Sayegh lays a number of the different things that can go wrong, the costs associated with the typical business running their own closet-based infrastructure, and the risks that companies can be crazy enough to take on.  It’s something that he sees again and again, so he’s out there on the stage sharing the story of how outsourcing hosting services is the answer in case after case.  He builds on those points and even points out how hosted services are technically superior, customizable, and more flexible in just about every single way.

“You’ve got to get so many things right just to keep your operation running. Add any kind of geo-redundancy, factor in cooling and electrical costs and physical access controls and you start to get the picture of not only the challenges that are built in to this operation, but the minimal value the business gets from it compared to the tremendous costs. Sure, you own it, but you also feed it, you run it, you rebuild it all the time, and you take all the risks.”

It’s a cause that epitomizes the work that Codero has been doing in that market.  For all the hosting and cloud giants out there, the biggest cloud playground is in this target space.  It has the most customers and offers the best advantages to the customer.  A lot of that success is based on the company’s high-performance dedicated services lineup, but also their hybrid cloud computing products.  In the year and change since Sayegh has taken over, they have been revamping the services and products they offer at a torrid pace.  With a history of founding the massive cloud environments at Dell, Rackspace, and HP, Sayegh is clearly just getting started.

Hybrid cloud solutions are projected by many to be the future of enterprise cloud computing.  Just this week IBM made moves in the public cloud space with their acquisition of SoftLayer, they are likely to feature hybrid cloud solutions.  Many other companies are embracing the hybrid cloud vision as well.  The differentiator however is value, and in that mid-market sweet spot, the notion of highly available, highly qualified support makes all the difference in the world.  Many people don’t really realize how much turnover there is in the hosting business at large, customers routinely remove services as they shop for better and better value, find their services aren’t working for them, and look for different features.  That fact is not lost on Codero, they retain an extremely high amount of customers, minimize turnover and their secret is based on not only outstanding products, but support as well.

Whether you have a simple or complex environment, hosted solutions can be built to deliver a better value for your business in every case imaginable. Hosted services get you enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and 24×7 expert support; and none of the worries of doing it all yourself. It’s time to get out of that closet and step into the 21st century.

I personally look back on the Nineties pretty fondly.  Many great memories, there was even some great music.  The server tech of the 90’s – I lived it and I completely agree with that- let it go already.   Rip that junk out of that backroom closet, and let it be what it is – a closet..