InstaCarma is going to HostingCon 2010, the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, to be held in Austin, Texas from July 19th-21st. We’ve purchased booth space (Booth #527)and will be exhibiting at the event for the second time in a row. The company management represented by the Director, Mr. Aromal Rajagopal, will be in attendance and we hope to meet several people we’ve worked with and known over the past 8 years, along with lots of new people from the web hosting world.

InstaCarma hopes to put up a booth that will advertise its services and spread awareness about what it does. Our booth would be a great place to learn about operating web hosting support processes with maximum efficiency, quality and cost-effectiveness. In addition, we will also be launching an array of new services and innovative solutions. We also hope visitors find our booth a great place to make conversation about web hosting support operations, and also to spend an enjoyable few minutes!

We’re also working out details of our HostingCon special promotions. Do stop by at our booth — we look forward to meeting you!

InstaCarma had put up a booth at HostingCon’09 which had a couple of hundred footfalls.
Ping! Zine – a reputed Web Hosting Magazine has honored us with the ‘Most Bling’ award (in pic).

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Ping! Zine for this recognition. Also, hats off to iNet – the organizers of HostingCon, for putting up an awesome show.

HostingCon is the place where one can meet the who’s who of the Hosting Industry under one roof. We are thankful to all those who were involved in making this venture a huge success and look forward to be there next year as well!

InstaCarma had a rocking time at HostingCon ’09. Hats off to iNet for a well organized show. We had a very fruitful conference with a couple of hundred footfalls at our booth and loads of new business contacts and relationships established. InstaCarma’s director Arun Narayanan’s talk went very well as well and the folks at WHIR have covered it well in their article here

We signed off the event with announcements of our give-aways — congratulations to the winners!

The conference is the place to be to meet the who’s who of the Hosting Industry. Its a great show with informative sessions and fun parties. The exhibit hall was full of activity and its great to check out the offerings of so many companies under one roof. The whole atmosphere was very vibrant and the networking has been great.

We’ve managed to get a lot of people very interested, so much so that the Directors of the company are staying back in the US till the 25th, meeting up with various companies to take discussions which started at the conference forward.

Overall, we’re thrilled with the response to our company and its offerings which has been fantastic and we’ve already gone ahead and booked a booth for next year’s HostingCon to be held at Austin, Texas (we’ve booked booth #420). For now, here are some pictures from the just concluded HostingCon ’09.

We are thankful to all those who were involved in making this venture a huge success!

We posted on this blog a few weeks ago that InstaCarma Director Arun Narayanan will be speaking at HostingCon. The schedules have been up on the HostingCon website for some time now. You can check it our here.

The session is titled “Exploring Advantages for Hosting Companies in the Emerging World“. There are 2 speakers for the session, one being Arun of course, and the other being Eduardo Vila of HostingPanama.com. The session consists of a talk by each individual speaker, followed by a Q&A session.

Arun will be talking about the many advantages that India offers to Hosting Companies in the US. He will deliver market insights gleaned from years of interaction with industry peers in India. InstaCarma also carried out a market study in India specifically for the purpose of understanding the Indian market better and sharing its learning with industry colleagues in the west. Insights from this research and other sources can all be expected in the talk.

Arun will also share several operational insights, from areas such as recruitment, training, retention, quality assurance and HR management, insights that are very relevant from an Indian perspective. He will draw upon his 7 years of industry experience in which he has worked in several capacities – from core technical work involving fixing servers and helping customers; to managerial roles involving hands-on supervision, training, recruitment, QA, HR management etc; to business development and company affairs. Being one of the founders of our bootstrapped, organically grown company he has well rounded perspectives and sharp insights into running a web hosting support operation. The speech is also designed to act as a bit of a primer to anyone who is curious about India as a business destination in general.

We’re very excited about the speech because its a topic close to our hearts. In Arun’s own words “I’m a firm believer in the fact that in today’s flat world, just as the west can be viewed as a great opportunity by the developing world, the opposite holds true as well because India offers excellent advantages to businesses in the developed world as well. I have mentioned this in one of my slides and I cannot stress enough on its importance so I’ll say it again – if globalization is inevitable, so is a presence in India”

The speech has special relevance in today’s times when companies have to do whatever they can to increase revenues and become operationally more versatile and lean. India has always been referred to as a low cost
destination, but in his speech Arun also talks of India as a market poised to boom, and how Hosting companies can benefit by using India as both an operational base to tap its operational advantages and at the same time explore its growing hosting market and create new revenue channels with tremendous potential to grow. It is also a fairly easy market to enter for a business like hosting because remote functioning is easily possible in this industry. Companies in the US can set up operations in India that can initially augment its US operation. Then, as marketing initiatives in India start taking effect, the same operation can serve Indian clients as well. There is no money or
productivity lost as the India operation can be productive from day one by serving the US customers. The kind of versatility this lends is very good for businesses.

The speech also puts operations in India and its benefits into perspective in a much more holistic way. Says Arun “When people think of starting an operation in India, the main thought is cost benefits. But there are several other benefits as well, such as easy scalability due to abundant talent. Sample this – India produces about 5 times as many engineers each year than the whole of Europe put together does! There are also other lesser known advantages such as a favorable legal system, and these will all be touched upon in the speech”.

India is a great opportunity to reduce costs, and increase revenue. This speech will have a lot of great take aways for anyone looking to tap those benefits.

InstaCarma is excited about exhibiting at HostingCon 2009 (booth #418) this August (10th – 12th) in Washington, DC. Our Director, Arun Narayanan is a speaker at the event, so we’re doubly excited about it!

The organizers of the event (iNet Interactive, who’re doing a great job) have provided us a coupon code which you can utilize for availing upto $60 discount for registration. You can click on any of the banners below in order to avail the discount :-

Hoping to see you at HostingCon 2009!

We’re pleased to announce that InstaCarma’s Director Arun Narayanan has been invited to speak at HostingCon 2009! We’re thrilled about this of course, and have already started working hard to make sure that our talk is very informative and adds genuine value to the audience.

HostingCon is a great place to meet colleagues from the hosting world of course, its also a wonderful opportunity to learn from them. Apart from facilitating networking, HostinCon also lines up extremely informative and relevant talks on diverse topics with actionable substance. The past editions of HostingCon have included talks on diverse topics in areas like technology, marketing, operations, emerging trends, etc and this time too HostingCon is striving its best to put up a wonderful selection of topics for its attendees. HostingCon receives a few hundred speaking applications but they’re very careful with their screening process and make sure that only talks that deliver real value are selected. We will do our best to uphold HostingCon’s great tradition of delivering unsurpassed content to its attendees.

The details of the speech are being worked out and will be announced soon, both here and at the HostingCon website. Watch this space for more!

InstaCarma is going to HostingCon 2009, the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, to be held at Washington D.C. from August 10th-12th. We’ve purchased booth space and will be exhibiting at the event for the first time. The company management, represented by Directors Arun Narayanan and Aromal Rajagopal, will be in attendance and we hope to meet several people we’ve worked with and known over the past 7 years, along with lots of new people from the web hosting world.

InstaCarma hopes to put up a booth that will advertise its services and spread awareness about what it does. We’ve already started working on how we can make the booth as interesting and useful as possible for visitors. Our booth would be a great place to learn about operating web hosting support processes with maximum efficiency, quality and cost-effectiveness. We also hope visitors find our booth a great place to make conversation about web hosting support operations, and also to spend an enjoyable few minutes!

We’re also working out details of our HostingCon special promotions. Do stop by at our booth — we look forward to meeting you!