B . C . T E C H N O L O G Y
S p e c i a l F e a t u r e
A Good Host
Twenty years of experience has given
GT.net a wealth of knowledge, and
according to Jack Ong, chief operating
o„ce at Gossamer Threads, the company
bases its services and products on one
central goal: providing companies with
speed and stability. "Companies don't want
to deal with purchasing gear and dealing
with failed hardware," adds Alex Krohn,
founder and
CEO of Gossamer Threads.
"They just want a stable platform to deploy
and manage their own applications and
internal IT."
It is for this reason that GT.net decided
not to depend on third party hosting
companies. If something goes wrong,
any and all problems can be investigated
internally—a plus for its clients. With this
in mind, GT.net developed two internal
management controls to strengthen
their customer experience:
GTMetrix and
GossamerEye.
GTMetrix, which is now the largest
performance-testing site on the net,
analyzes about 125,000 pages per day and
gives developers powerful insights on the
inner workings of their websites. "Anyone
who has a website can use
GTMetrix. You
just type in the
URL of your website and it
gives you a list of action items you can do to
speed up your site," says Krohn.
GossamerEye, on the other hand, was
developed in order to manage and monitor
all GT.net's infrastructure from one place,
while continuously improving the customer
experience through the collection of key
performance metrics.
Choosing Wisely
Data locality is becoming a hot topic for
Canadian companies today and rightfully
so. Whether companies need to comply
with regulatory concerns, abide by
provincial or federal privacy laws or
basically want the ability to host their
data in Canada for philosophical reasons,
options surrounding geo-specišc cloud
solutions give organizations that much
more ›exibility.
If it's all about location—and for many
organizations, it is—the ability to host data
through a local provider that takes a very
personal approach to managed hosting can
save a company time and money. "More
companies want an all-Canadian solution
because they just don't want their data
As technoloœy choices
multiply, many companies
are questioning where
their future lies. Most are
storing their major
IT infrastructure on-site
and are now facing a
myriad of competing
ideas of where to
move it
Performance hosting and application
hosting services are being added to
many companies' must-have list
