The Web Hosting Blog of Host Color

We are already in Las Vegas to attend to one of the most important events in web hosting industry for 2009 - Parallels Summit 2009. Well it is important at least from our point of view as we expect the OS virtualization technologies and Virtuozzo in particular to play a very important role in the transformation of web hosting market from “old-school-server-infrastructure” to virtualized environment and new enterprise hosting solutions.

We came to Parallels Summit 2009 to learn more about company’s approach to web hosting and server management and also to see how Parallels team sees the implementation of Virtuozzo Containers and Plesk to enterprise hosting systems like new Host Color’s load-balanced cluster solution.

We expect to be ready to launch our new hosting infrastructure at the end of July 2009. The last thing to set-up and test is the system’s web hosting manager program (control panel) that allows our shared class hosting customers to better manage their accounts.

During the busy 2 day summit calendar our staff will attend to the following keynotes and discussions:

• The Parallels summit is focused on Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Automation, and Virtualization. Host Color will attend to keynotes:
• The Next Generation of Optimized Computing (Serguei Beloussov)
• A MediaTemple Case Study - “Differentiating Your Business Through Mac OS X Server Hosting”
• Parallels Virtualization Containers Best Practices
• Things You Can Do Next Week to Make More Money Selling SSL
• Adding Cloud services to your Parallels Infrastructure using the Application Packaging Standard (APS)
• Into the Clouds with the Parallels Automation SaaS Module for higher ARPU
• Next Generation Cloud Compute Server
• Blue Skies? Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing and SaaS
• How we will move to the Cloud: the coming partnerships between web hosts and cloud platform providers
• Future of Social Media & Content

We will also meet with Parallel’s Vice President responsible for Business Development & Alliances to present our load-balanced cluster solutions and to discuss the implementation of Parallels virtualization platform as well as our future partnership with the virtualization technology producer.

The conference is starting tonight with Opening Networking Reception sponsored by Microsoft and Intel.