Everyone here at SingleHop enjoys talking about transparency—which is good because we get asked a lot about our innovative and apparently industry-leading approach to transparency and accountability. Much of the attention began early last year when David Strom, writing in the highly regarded tech pub ReadWrite authored an article about our policies that carried the [...]
For those of you familiar with the craft beer industry, you know we have some amazing breweries here in the Midwest, and arguably one of the best in the country – Three Floyd’s Brewing. Three Floyd’s is located in Munster, Indiana, and what’s particularly fascinating about this brewery is that every year they release a [...]
A few months ago, I was asked by Bill, one of our Channel Partners to be a guest lecturer at DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media. Bill is a partner with Telecomedic.com, a technology and telecommunications consulting firm that specializes in helping business with IT and communications challenges. Telecomedic recently become a Channel [...]
We’ve always been a fan of lofty office space. We love the exposed brick walls. We love how the wiring and ventilation infrastructure is wide-open up-above. In our opinion, older buildings are better. But functionality and productivity are still number one. So when we ran out of space last year and needed to find a [...]
Anyone who has been anywhere near a television over the past 20 years has probably at one time or another seen the hapless cartoon character Homer Simpson: “D’oh!” That phrase may come to mind when you consider the logic of going beyond providing hosted infrastructure to also providing hosted applications. “D’oh!” While the super techies [...]
A bunch of us here at SingleHop are looking forward to our trip south to ITEXPO East 2013, which runs from January 30 through February 1 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Sure, blue skies, warm water, white sand, and palm trees sound nice to anyone—especially after experiencing the last few weeks of winter up [...]
Over the years, we’ve been fortunate enough to receive a lot of attention for the way we leverage automation in the data center to operate efficiently, provide a better quality of service and improve the customer experience. When we first set out to automate our business, we weren’t trying to set any records or anything [...]
Regular readers know that I’ve previously written about the basics of cloud computing. In a sense it is something that most of us know backwards and forwards—yet it is a topic that we receive a lot of thanks for covering. From the enterprise space . . . as well as from small to medium-sized businesses [...]
Hey everyone, unfortunately it would seem that this holiday season someone has decided to take it upon themselves to be a Grinch and make it appear as though we are invoicing clients for tablets from apple.com. Trust us, we’re not. But we are looking into whoever is. Please be sure not to click any links [...]
Welcome back to the third and final phase of your keyword strategy training. In this epic conclusion of phase I and phase II of this keyword research series, we’ll focus on the import discipline of keyword management. After all, managing your keywords and monitoring your ranks is an important measure of success in SEO. So [...]