Renton, Washington - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 12, 2008 - An agreement has been signed by web hosting server virtualization firm, Parallels, with myLittleTools, to resell myLittleAdmin for SQL Server 2005.

Debuted as the first web-based management tool designed for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the application enables service providers to manage most database and server objects, such as tables, views, programmability and security objects, through a web browser.

Elian Chrebor, Founder of myLittleTools noted, ”We understand how important it is to ensure integration of myLittleAdmin with a popular control panel like Parallels Plesk. Through our technical and commercial relationship with Parallels, we now can offer myLittleAdmin to a larger segment of the hosting market at an attractive price.”

Support for myLittleAdmin is included with Parallels Plesk Control Panel 8.4, the latest version of Parallels’ leading multi-platform control panel designed to meet the needs of small-to-large hosting providers, resellers and end users. Powered by patented technology, the software is easy to use and automates a large number of tasks that allow service providers and their customers to reduce operating costs while increasing efficiency, profitability and customer satisfaction.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels remarked, ”We are pleased to partner with myLittleAdmin on this database functionality for Parallels Plesk Control Panel users. With competitive pricing and leasing options, Parallels is making it cost effective and flexible for service providers to integrate this web application with Parallels or other control panel software.”

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Renton, Washington - (The Hosting News) - May 8, 2008 - Parallels’ Virtuozzo Containers, have been selected by managed hosting provider, Liquid Web, for its new Microsoft Windows virtual private server (VPS) offering.

The offering will be delivered from Liquid Web’s two fully owned and operated mid-western datacenters. This represents an expanded partnership with Parallels, who already supplies Liquid Web with Parallels Plesk Control Panel software, which is bundled with all Windows dedicated server offerings.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”We are pleased that Liquid Web has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and the Parallels Open Platform for this important new offering and that our two companies are deepening our partnership. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offers the highest levels of density, manageability and scalability, which makes it an ideal solution for datacenter owners who want to offer a wide variety of fully managed services.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers includes the Parallels Infrastructure Manager, a robust set of management tools that helps Liquid Web personnel deliver its ”Heroic Support,” which has become a trademark of their services. Using the Parallels Infrastructure Manager and Parallels Plesk control panel software, Liquid Web can offer their customers a control panel for adding software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications as well as the ability to scale the size of their VPS.

Liquid Web takes advantage of the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers’ architecture to offer burstable memory for example, temporarily adding more memory to a container during a short period of high activity, so clients may have access to more server resources than they actually pay for. The architecture provides this capability while guaranteeing minimal levels of service so clients never have less memory than they contract for.

Travis Stoliker, Marketing Director of Liquid Web commented, ”Our VPS offerings give a significant competitive advantage over hypervisor-based solutions. The high density, reliability, power savings, and management tools of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers allow us to provide our customers with more attractive offerings.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the world’s leading operating system (OS) virtualization solution. On a single physical server and single OS installation, it enables users to run workloads in multiple, simultaneously running execution environments called ”containers.” Compared to other virtualization technologies, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability. Read more of this news »

Renton, Washington - (The Hosting News) - April 2, 2008 - Server virtualization firm, Parallels, has selected IT products distributor, Tech Data Corporation, as its exclusive U.S. distributor for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

Following Parallels’ channel program offering value-added resellers (VARs) access to container-based server virtualization software, distribution of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers will be managed by Tech Data’s Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division, which provides VARs with specialized sales and technical support for virtualization solutions.

Bill Portin, Vice President of North American sales and operations, Parallels noted, ”Parallels Virtuozzo Containers takes a different approach to server virtualization than many of the other solutions available in the channel, and by doing, so offers enterprises large and small a unique set of advantages, such as better per-server density and superior performance. This makes Parallels Virtuozzo Containers an ideal solution for VARs deploying data center-scale virtualization or for those deploying virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. Working with Tech Data’s AIS Division, Parallels will ensure our VAR partners have access to the support, expertise and information they need to profitably deploy Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the world’s leading operating system (OS) virtualization solution. On a single physical server and single OS installation, it enables users to run workloads in multiple, simultaneously running execution environments called ‘containers’. Compared to other virtualization technologies, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability. Read more of this news »

Renton, Washington - (The Hosting News) - January 31, 2008 - Server virtualization firm, Parallels (formerly SWsoft), has released its latest version of the container-based server virtualization software. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Version 4.0, includes enhancements and features designed to improve usability, data center management and business continuity.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers differs from traditional hardware virtualization solutions in that it dynamically partitions a single Windows or Linux operating system instance into highly efficient and scalable virtual environments or ”containers.”

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”The ever-changing needs of today’s enterprise data centers call for a virtualization solution that is flexible and delivers high performance. With the release of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0, we are launching the next wave of virtualization, including a suite of products that help IT administrators effectively manage their growing virtual infrastructures.”
By delivering native server performance, Virtuozzo virtualization can be used with performance-sensitive workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases that are not practical with other virtualization solutions due to their associated overhead and the performance penalties that are incurred.
Mr. Beloussov continued, ”Parallels offers the right technological approach coupled with the best economics to deliver a comprehensive suite of virtualization and automation products for any hardware or software environment.”

Also, Parallels Virtuozzo offers three times the density or more versus other solutions, which permits data center managers to maximize the number of virtual containers per each physical server. In fact, Virtuozzo is the only virtualization solution that enables dozens to hundreds of containers to immediately and automatically leverage hardware, resulting in exceptional data center efficiency from administrative, ROI and energy-consumption perspectives. Along with the increased density capabilities, IT administrators can reduce operating system sprawl in the data center by using Virtuozzo.

Robert Berry, Director of Technical Services, Homes and Land Magazine, noted, ”We were impressed by the Beta and are looking forward to implementing Virtuozzo 4.0. The new centralized management and networking options in the tools will make managing our virtualized data center even easier.”

John Humphreys, Program Vice President with IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group remarked, ”With the Virtuozzo product, Parallels is focused on taking virtualization to the next level. By virtualizing above the operating system, customers get both the benefits of hardware reduction and a reduction in the number of operating system images they need to run to support their applications.” Read more of this news »

Herndon, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 12, 2007 - Server virtualization firm, SWsoft’s Sitebuilder, recently enabled the Championship High School Wrestling Team of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to create its website, including an e-shop that will allow the team to coordinate fundraising sales, offer memberships, accept donations and sell apparel.

Scott Stank, President of the Central Dauphin Wrestling Association remarked, ”When you are working with a group of volunteers and parents that is funded through donations, you need a vehicle to get information to the group in a timely and user-friendly format. SWsoft Sitebuilder allows us to reach all our members and anyone who visits our website. Because the software is so easy to use, we can allow several volunteers with limited web design knowledge to manage our site.”

With limited resources and almost no website design experience, a high school sports team created a dynamic website in just a few weeks using innovative software from SWsoft. The Central Dauphin High School state championship wrestling team is using SWsoft Sitebuilder to create a full-functioning, e-commerce website, just in time for the start of wrestling season.

The site Using Sitebuilder’s five-step wizard, the team was able to quickly and easily publish a user-friendly website without using HTML or other web development languages. The Central Dauphin Wrestling Association turned to InfoQuest, its local service provider based in Harrisburg, to host the website. Read more of this news »

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - December 10, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft’s, CEO, Serguei Beloussov, has been honored as European Entrepreneur of the Year 2007, with one of the Audemars Piguet Changing Times Awards.

The award acknowledges the European entrepreneur whose company has made the greatest impact on the greatest number of people over the past three years. SWsoft has more than doubled revenues annually since its inception eight years ago, has won 27 awards in the past 12 months and has 55 patents issued or pending. Its number of employees has increased by 50 percent this year to a total of 900.

Mr. Beloussov remarked, ”It is an honor to receive this award, and acknowledges the rapid progress the entire SWsoft team has made in enabling the optimization of desktop and server computing with innovative and useful technology. I believe the most important quality for entrepreneurs is to never stop, never give up and never surrender. Our team is keeping that spirit as we move forward because we still have much to accomplish.” Read more of this news »

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - October 24, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft, has been deployed by telecom companies, to automate infrastructure costs, while offering new services, designed to help them deliver automated hosting services.

Telecom carriers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa such as KPN (The Netherlands), Swisscom (Switzerland), Telecom Italia, STA (Andorra Telecom), Portugal Telecom and Togo Telecom are using SWsoft products to add revenue by introducing hosting services and software as a service (SaaS) to their large base of small- and medium-size business customers.

Soeren von Varchmin, Managing Director for SWsoft’s European and Asian operations remarked, ”Telecoms and Internet service providers are increasingly becoming important players in the hosting business,” said “Many of these carriers were more recent entrants to the hosting market, but by employing new advanced technologies from SWsoft, hosting services and SaaS applications are easier to roll out on a larger scale.” Read more of this news »

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - October 17, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft, has released the beta version of Plesk 8.3 for Windows, designed as the first control panel to support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7).

SWsoft will be demonstrating the Plesk beta at the Windows Server 2008 Hosting Roadshow, which begins today in the United States with additional dates in cities worldwide. SWsoft Plesk software automates a large number of tasks, allowing service providers to reduce operating costs while increasing efficiency, profitability and customer satisfaction. The Plesk 8.3 beta program gives Windows users an opportunity to test a variety of new features in Plesk, as well as improvements to IIS7 such as the enhanced FastCGI module for faster, more reliable hosting.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft noted, ”As the first control panel to support Windows Server 2008 and IIS7, the Plesk 8.3 beta gives Windows customers an opportunity to provide us with valuable feedback to ensure product quality. Microsoft and SWsoft collaborated so that Windows customers can leverage our industry-leading Plesk control panel and ongoing Open Fusion technology initiative to take advantage of new Windows-based hosting opportunities.” Read more of this news »

Tampa, Florida - (The Hosting News) - October 11, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft, has been chosen by web hosting firm, STRATO, to optimize its server infrastructure and streamline 10,000 virtual environments.

As a result of SWsoft’s Virtuozzo virtualization solution, STRATO has reported that it was able to increase the number of customers on a single server by 30 percent and streamline the administration of 10,000 virtual environments.

STRATO serves over one million customers with tailor-made solutions for their various needs — from webhosting to virtual and dedicated servers to complete web shops. Demand for virtual environments shows the largest increase rate and uses the capacity of a third of the 30,000-plus STRATO servers. As part of a recent expansion of their two datacenters in Berlin and Karlsruhe, STRATO optimized server management using SWsoft solutions, increasing the efficiency of their virtual environments while also reducing electric power consumption per customer by 30 percent. Read more of this news »

Tampa, Florida - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft, has been chosen by web hosting firm, Hivelocity, to support its dedicated servers, with SWsoft’s Virtuozzo and Plesk.

Reaching Gold Partner status, currently Hivelocity has several thousand servers online with plans to launch thousands more that include both Plesk and Virtuozzo in several new highly-competitive customer offerings.

Steve Eschweiler, General Manger at Hivelocity explained, ”Hivelocity has always strived to be the best value in the hosting industry. This new status with SWsoft gives us more flexibility to create new competitive offerings.”

The company intends to continue its leadership in the dedicated hosting space with highly-competitive VPS offerings that provide customers with new levels of value. Hivelocity will launch VPS hosting solutions based on Virtuozzo within the next few weeks. Read more of this news »