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(The Hosting News) – Reliam, Inc. a leading provider of complex application hosting and Internet Application Management (IAM), announced today the availability of R1Soft Continuous Data ProtectionR (CDP), robust backup software that will offer customers a more comprehensive backup service with an extensive selection of data retention capabilities.
Integrated with Reliam’s current fully-managed backup service, the new CDP backup technology brings clients bare-metal restore capabilities, a broader set of Windows backup features, and MySQL database protection. R1Soft’s Bare-Metal Restore feature enables Reliam to recover from potential full system failures more rapidly by simply selecting any point-in-time backup to restore and skipping the O/S reinstallation step.
“R1Soft’s CDP solution allows us to architect our own backend storage solution which offers flexibility, increased cost savings, and ease of future scalability in the long term as our storage needs grow,” said Nate Johnson, CEO of Reliam Inc.
Reliam also joins the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program (R1HPP), qualifying for special volume discounting and access to a large collection of marketing and sales resources, among other exclusive benefits.
“We are thrilled to have Reliam join the Hosting Partner Program. Adding Continuous Data Protection to enhance the scope of its backup services demonstrates Reliam’s commitment to ensuring the availability of clients’
mission-critical data,” said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies.
Source: Reliam Integrates R1Soft Continuous Data Protection
(The Hosting News) – Reliam, Inc. a leading provider of complex application hosting and Internet Application Management (IAM), announced today the availability of R1Soft Continuous Data ProtectionR (CDP), robust backup software that will offer customers a more comprehensive backup service with an extensive selection of data retention capabilities.
Integrated with Reliam’s current fully-managed backup service, the new CDP backup technology brings clients bare-metal restore capabilities, a broader set of Windows backup features, and MySQL database protection. R1Soft’s Bare-Metal Restore feature enables Reliam to recover from potential full system failures more rapidly by simply selecting any point-in-time backup to restore and skipping the O/S reinstallation step.
“R1Soft’s CDP solution allows us to architect our own backend storage solution which offers flexibility, increased cost savings, and ease of future scalability in the long term as our storage needs grow,” said Nate Johnson, CEO of Reliam Inc.
Reliam also joins the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program (R1HPP), qualifying for special volume discounting and access to a large collection of marketing and sales resources, among other exclusive benefits.
“We are thrilled to have Reliam join the Hosting Partner Program. Adding Continuous Data Protection to enhance the scope of its backup services demonstrates Reliam’s commitment to ensuring the availability of clients’
mission-critical data,” said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies.
(The Hosting News) – LinMin, maker of award-winning IT and hosting automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today unveiled LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data center enhancements. Today’s release, which has been in development for nearly a year, also offers improvements in security, platform support and ease of integration with IT applications, including control panels and Cloud orchestrators.
The new release offers several key new features. The optional Windows Provisioning Module enables the deployment of Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 and Windows® 7 systems using the same graphical or programmatic interfaces used to provision all current releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and SLES as well as legacy Windows operating systems. The new online self-help and knowledge base provides customers with unprecedented self-support ability.
LinMin now also offers more streamlined application integration. Release 6.0 boasts an upgraded API, including a new disk imaging interface, enhanced provisioning support, and token and IP-based authentication. LinMin’s API enables Cloud, hosting and corporate data centers to seamlessly add provisioning and imaging support to their existing IT applications, enabling full server provisioning, recovery and cloning automation of the data center. The API also enables Independent Software Vendors and OEMs to augment their offerings with sophisticated provisioning and imaging capabilities.
“Large hosting companies need to implement server provisioning automation as much as possible in order to keep service levels high and costs low,” said David Elbaze, Managing Director, Elb Group Netissime, a leading French hosting company. “We standardized on LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 because it takes less than one day to implement, is easy to use, reduces labor costs tremendously and offers very high scalability, resulting in very efficient data center operations.”
“LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 incorporates everything we’ve learned from LinMin production deployments in numerous data centers and IT shops worldwide, including enhancements in performance, platform support, security over public networks, online self-help, rescue system deployment and the provisioning of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7,” said Laurent Gharda, CEO of LinMin Corp. “Our new Application Programming Interface enables data centers and OEMs to easily add automated provisioning and imaging to any IT application.”
Ultimately, LinMin helps create flexibility within the data center. By enabling system administrators to automate server provisioning, scalability is enhanced without increasing cost. Disaster Recovery is also substantially streamlined with LinMin’s snapshot rollback capability. By offering both a browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an Application Programming Interface (API) so customers can integrate their control panels, cloud orchestrators and other automation tools, LinMin makes server provisioning, rollback and cloning easy.
LinMin is also used to automate PC deployments by remotely installing Windows 7, Windows XP and Linux. PCs can also be backed up and restored, avoiding lengthy OS and application installations should PCs get infected with malware.
For a detailed description of the new features of LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0, please visit http://www.linmin.com/help/linmin_revision_history_lbmp6_0.html.
Pricing
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 for Linux and Windows is available for free trial. Perpetual license pricing starts at $1,199 for up to 100 systems to provision and image (for major versions of Linux and Windows Server 2003/XP) or $1,799 (for major versions of Linux, legacy Windows plus Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7).
About LinMin
LinMin provides IT infrastructure deployment software for cloud, hosting and corporate data centers. LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning automates Windows and Linux server provisioning and PC deployments, while LinMin Bare Metal Imaging enables Disaster Recovery and system cloning of servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LinMin delivers enterprise-grade IT software for use in organizations of any size with limited budgets. LinMin is based in Redwood City, Calif.
(The Hosting News) – LinMin, maker of award-winning IT and hosting automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today unveiled LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data center enhancements. Today’s release, which has been in development for nearly a year, also offers improvements in security, platform support and ease of integration with IT applications, including control panels and Cloud orchestrators.
The new release offers several key new features. The optional Windows Provisioning Module enables the deployment of Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 and Windows® 7 systems using the same graphical or programmatic interfaces used to provision all current releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and SLES as well as legacy Windows operating systems. The new online self-help and knowledge base provides customers with unprecedented self-support ability.
LinMin now also offers more streamlined application integration. Release 6.0 boasts an upgraded API, including a new disk imaging interface, enhanced provisioning support, and token and IP-based authentication. LinMin’s API enables Cloud, hosting and corporate data centers to seamlessly add provisioning and imaging support to their existing IT applications, enabling full server provisioning, recovery and cloning automation of the data center. The API also enables Independent Software Vendors and OEMs to augment their offerings with sophisticated provisioning and imaging capabilities.
“Large hosting companies need to implement server provisioning automation as much as possible in order to keep service levels high and costs low,” said David Elbaze, Managing Director, Elb Group Netissime, a leading French hosting company. “We standardized on LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 because it takes less than one day to implement, is easy to use, reduces labor costs tremendously and offers very high scalability, resulting in very efficient data center operations.”
“LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 incorporates everything we’ve learned from LinMin production deployments in numerous data centers and IT shops worldwide, including enhancements in performance, platform support, security over public networks, online self-help, rescue system deployment and the provisioning of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7,” said Laurent Gharda, CEO of LinMin Corp. “Our new Application Programming Interface enables data centers and OEMs to easily add automated provisioning and imaging to any IT application.”
Ultimately, LinMin helps create flexibility within the data center. By enabling system administrators to automate server provisioning, scalability is enhanced without increasing cost. Disaster Recovery is also substantially streamlined with LinMin’s snapshot rollback capability. By offering both a browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an Application Programming Interface (API) so customers can integrate their control panels, cloud orchestrators and other automation tools, LinMin makes server provisioning, rollback and cloning easy.
LinMin is also used to automate PC deployments by remotely installing Windows 7, Windows XP and Linux. PCs can also be backed up and restored, avoiding lengthy OS and application installations should PCs get infected with malware.
For a detailed description of the new features of LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0, please visit http://www.linmin.com/help/linmin_revision_history_lbmp6_0.html.
Pricing
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 for Linux and Windows is available for free trial. Perpetual license pricing starts at $1,199 for up to 100 systems to provision and image (for major versions of Linux and Windows Server 2003/XP) or $1,799 (for major versions of Linux, legacy Windows plus Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7).
About LinMin
LinMin provides IT infrastructure deployment software for cloud, hosting and corporate data centers. LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning automates Windows and Linux server provisioning and PC deployments, while LinMin Bare Metal Imaging enables Disaster Recovery and system cloning of servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LinMin delivers enterprise-grade IT software for use in organizations of any size with limited budgets. LinMin is based in Redwood City, Calif.
Source: LinMin™ Releases Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0
(The Hosting News) – Today at HostingCon, Parallels, the cloud enablement leader, issued Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2. It has several exciting features for Parallels partners to deliver to end users. Key features are:
• PCI Compliance- Parallels Small Business Panel can be made compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This can be achieved by running a special PCI compliance resolver utility and additional tuning of the system components, as described in the document Achieving PCI Compliance for Servers managed by Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2.
• More virtualization solutions supported – Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2 can operate in virtual environments created by the following virtualization solutions: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, and VMWare. There are special licensing and pricing options for Parallels Panel software operating inside virtual environments.
• APS application improvements- It is now possible to install web applications in the website’s document root
• Links to Virtual Container Management
• Simultaneous logins to the control panel from the same user
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and CentOS 5.5 support is added
• ProFTPD FTP server component was updated to the version 1.3.2
Parallels believes that these improvements will allow their partners to offer a wider array of vertical offerings with support for pci compliant e-commerce offerings and the ability to offer a small business friendly control panel in any cloud based offering. More information on this product and its latest features can be found at: http://www.parallels.com/products/small-business-panel/.
Source: Parallels Releases Small Business Panel 10.2 at HostingCon
(The Hosting News) – Today at HostingCon, Parallels, the cloud enablement leader, issued Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2. It has several exciting features for Parallels partners to deliver to end users. Key features are:
• PCI Compliance- Parallels Small Business Panel can be made compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This can be achieved by running a special PCI compliance resolver utility and additional tuning of the system components, as described in the document Achieving PCI Compliance for Servers managed by Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2.
• More virtualization solutions supported – Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2 can operate in virtual environments created by the following virtualization solutions: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, and VMWare. There are special licensing and pricing options for Parallels Panel software operating inside virtual environments.
• APS application improvements- It is now possible to install web applications in the website’s document root
• Links to Virtual Container Management
• Simultaneous logins to the control panel from the same user
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and CentOS 5.5 support is added
• ProFTPD FTP server component was updated to the version 1.3.2
Parallels believes that these improvements will allow their partners to offer a wider array of vertical offerings with support for pci compliant e-commerce offerings and the ability to offer a small business friendly control panel in any cloud based offering. More information on this product and its latest features can be found at: http://www.parallels.com/products/small-business-panel/.
Source: Parallels Releases Small Business Panel 10.2 at HostingCon
(The Hosting News) – Today at HostingCon, Parallels, the cloud enablement leader, issued Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2. It has several exciting features for Parallels partners to deliver to end users. Key features are:
• PCI Compliance- Parallels Small Business Panel can be made compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This can be achieved by running a special PCI compliance resolver utility and additional tuning of the system components, as described in the document Achieving PCI Compliance for Servers managed by Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2.
• More virtualization solutions supported – Parallels Small Business Panel 10.2 can operate in virtual environments created by the following virtualization solutions: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, and VMWare. There are special licensing and pricing options for Parallels Panel software operating inside virtual environments.
• APS application improvements- It is now possible to install web applications in the website’s document root
• Links to Virtual Container Management
• Simultaneous logins to the control panel from the same user
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and CentOS 5.5 support is added
• ProFTPD FTP server component was updated to the version 1.3.2
Parallels believes that these improvements will allow their partners to offer a wider array of vertical offerings with support for pci compliant e-commerce offerings and the ability to offer a small business friendly control panel in any cloud based offering. More information on this product and its latest features can be found at: http://www.parallels.com/products/small-business-panel/.
(The Hosting News) – Cloud enablement leader, Parallels, today announced that global hosting company, Softlayer has launched Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal to diversify its products and attract new customers.
Softlayer recognizes that offering new products increases customer retention and sales of its servers without significant financial or time commitments.
“We always aim to offer our customers the latest technologies to compliment their businesses,” said George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at Softlayer. “Parallels is a world class leader in virtualized infrastructure so we want to ensure our customers benefit from that level of innovation. We expect to see new virtual server sales increases as a result of launching Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal.”
Parallels currently supports more than one million Cloud-based virtual environments through its existing Parallels Virtuozzo Containers technology. This industry leading virtual infrastructure solution is complimented by Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal enabling customers like Softlayer to offer the widest selection of offerings to their clients. The Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal solution leverages the powerful hypervisor technology of Parallels’ award-winning desktop virtualization products, designed to manage a range of scenarios, from development and testing in the Cloud to consolidating multiple operating systems on a single server.
Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal seamlessly integrates with Parallels Virtual Automation enabling the quick and easy launch of new services from a centralized web management and automation system. Parallels Virtual Automation ties together the Parallels server virtualization suite simplifying the day to day activities of system administrators with a single pane of glass regardless of the underlying Parallels solution. The combined solution features full life-cycle service delivery management for virtualized services including provisioning, upgrades, monitoring, backup, customer self-service, migration and other components.
“One of the key reasons in launching Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal was choice,” said Karidis. “Being able to grow our business while addressing new audiences that require expanded OS support is a really important part of our strategy. This product has helped us diversify our product offerings and our resellers and small to medium customers will benefit from this technology and the ability to use it along side Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.”
“Parallels understands the importance of automation tools and the innovative approach of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers has made us the leader in virtualized services,” said Jack Zubarev, President of Worldwide Service Providers. “The flexibility of hypervisor technology in Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal, automated by Parallels Virtual Automation allows service providers like Softlayer to roll-out the server virtualization approach that most suits their needs, with minimal financial and time investment.”
Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal
Parallels Server Bare Metal is a hypervisor-based virtual infrastructure solution that supports a broad range of operating systems and applications; and enables a wide range of usage scenarios from development and testing to elastic Cloud computing. The product leverages Parallels’ powerful hypervisor technology onto the server, offering a highly scalable architecture that supports up to 12 vCPUs, 64GB vRAM, 2TB vHDDs and 16 vNICs per virtual machine for intensive applications. In addition, Parallels has implemented several Intel specific processor capabilities, such as Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O, FlexPriority, Extended Page Tables and Virtual Processor Identification, to further enhance performance.
About Parallels
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and Cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.
(The Hosting News) – Managed web hosting company, Liquid Web, today announced a major new feature for their cloud computing platform Storm On Demand called “Storm Bare Metal”. (http://stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/servers/baremetal.html) Storm Bare Metal is a revolutionary server technology that allows users to provision and manage private dedicated servers with powerful Cloud Hosting features. Storm Bare Metal provides all of the Cloud Hosting features that users love about Storm Servers like instant server setup, clone, resize, backups and Cloud Attached Firewalls but on your own private dedicated server wholly allocated to you! Storm Bare Metal gives users complete Hardware Transparency so they may specify the exact processor, memory and hard drive configuration that is right for their project.
True Hybrid Hosting with Easy Server Upgrades!
Storm On Demand customers can deploy flexible hybrid hosting configurations that contain a mixture of Storm Cloud Servers and Storm Bare Metal dedicated servers within the same management console. Storm makes it easy for users to move between Storm Cloud Servers and Storm Bare Metal Dedicated Servers with the click of a button! Storm allows users to easily clone, resize or restore between all sizes of Storm Bare Metal or Storm Cloud Servers. This means that if your Storm Cloud Server is getting overloaded, with a few clicks you can upgrade to a full Storm Bare Metal Dedicated Server without any migration pains. Or if you need to provision a small development sandbox to test a configuration change, you can clone your Storm Bare Metal Server to a Storm Cloud Server for few hours of testing and only be charged for what you used!
Storm On Demand Bare Metal Features:
• Hybrid configurations:
o Manage Storm Cloud Servers and Storm Bare Metal from the same management tool.
• Dedicated Hardware:
o With Storm Bare Metal the server you are paying for is not shared, it’s wholly and completely yours.
• Complete Hardware Transparency
o With Storm Bare Metal you can specify the exact CPU, RAM or Hard Drive Drive configuration you need
• Secure Private Cloud Hosting
o Storm Bare Metal customers do not share physical server resources with other users. This enables the privacy of a dedicated server with the flexibility of cloud hosting.
All Storm On Demand Servers Include:
• Instant Server Setup of Cloud Servers or full Dedicated Bare Metal Servers
• Easy Horizontal or Vertical Scaling
• Utility Style Hourly Billing so you only pay for what you use
Storm on Demand Features Coming Soon!
• Load Balancing
• Windows Server Images
• Storm On Demand API
Liquid Web Launches Worlds First Feature Complete Hybrid Cloud
(The Hosting News) – Managed web hosting company, Liquid Web, today announced a major new feature for their cloud computing platform Storm On Demand called “Storm Bare Metal”. (http://stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/servers/baremetal.html) Storm Bare Metal is a revolutionary server technology that allows users to provision and manage private dedicated servers with powerful Cloud Hosting features. Storm Bare Metal provides all of the Cloud Hosting features that users love about Storm Servers like instant server setup, clone, resize, backups and Cloud Attached Firewalls but on your own private dedicated server wholly allocated to you! Storm Bare Metal gives users complete Hardware Transparency so they may specify the exact processor, memory and hard drive configuration that is right for their project.
True Hybrid Hosting with Easy Server Upgrades!
Storm On Demand customers can deploy flexible hybrid hosting configurations that contain a mixture of Storm Cloud Servers and Storm Bare Metal dedicated servers within the same management console. Storm makes it easy for users to move between Storm Cloud Servers and Storm Bare Metal Dedicated Servers with the click of a button! Storm allows users to easily clone, resize or restore between all sizes of Storm Bare Metal or Storm Cloud Servers. This means that if your Storm Cloud Server is getting overloaded, with a few clicks you can upgrade to a full Storm Bare Metal Dedicated Server without any migration pains. Or if you need to provision a small development sandbox to test a configuration change, you can clone your Storm Bare Metal Server to a Storm Cloud Server for few hours of testing and only be charged for what you used!
Storm On Demand Bare Metal Features:
• Hybrid configurations:
o Manage Storm Cloud Servers and Storm Bare Metal from the same management tool.
• Dedicated Hardware:
o With Storm Bare Metal the server you are paying for is not shared, it’s wholly and completely yours.
• Complete Hardware Transparency
o With Storm Bare Metal you can specify the exact CPU, RAM or Hard Drive Drive configuration you need
• Secure Private Cloud Hosting
o Storm Bare Metal customers do not share physical server resources with other users. This enables the privacy of a dedicated server with the flexibility of cloud hosting.
All Storm On Demand Servers Include:
• Instant Server Setup of Cloud Servers or full Dedicated Bare Metal Servers
• Easy Horizontal or Vertical Scaling
• Utility Style Hourly Billing so you only pay for what you use
Storm on Demand Features Coming Soon!
• Load Balancing
• Windows Server Images
• Storm On Demand API
Liquid Web Launches Worlds First Feature Complete Hybrid Cloud
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