Ground-breaking Parallels Small Business Panel 10.1 Launches, Enabling Cloud Services Providers to Offer a New Class of Services for Small Businesses
Introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace for Increased Revenue Through Commercial Business Application Offerings
Singapore, December 10, 2009 – Cloud-enablement leader, Parallels, today announced the availability of Parallels Small Business Panel 10.1, which allows cloud services providers to offer IT-in-a-box solutions to small businesses, increasing revenue through business applications sales, and helping their small business customers transition to the cloud. Parallels Small Business Panel features a game changing
control panel designed for small businesses, offering simple wizards and productivity tools for collaboration, file sharing and business management. This makes self-service possible for all employees using the solution. Parallels Small Business Panel also introduces the Parallels Partner Marketplace, enabling cloud services providers to offer commercial applications to their small business customers in an easy-to-use storefront.
“Parallels is uniquely addressing the needs of small businesses and redefining the way control panels are used with the development of Parallels Small Business Panel. Over 80 cloud services providers are already launching the solution, so it’s clear that this is striking a chord with Parallels’ partners who are seeing the benefits for their small business customers,” explains Jan-Jaap Jager, General Manager - APAC at Parallels. “Parallels continues to enable cloud services providers to move beyond basic hosting services and offer value-added applications and services.”
Parallels Small Business Panel 10.1 gives users an intuitive user interface designed to connect employees to the right applications, which can be installed with a single click with no need for special training or technical knowledge. Role-based access enables user organizations to restrict functionality as appropriate for their employees. In addition, Parallels Small Business Panel incorporates the functionality of additional Parallels solutions for free, including Parallels Sitebuilder and Parallels Power Pack.
“Thaibizhost is pleased to offer our small business customers Parallels Small Business Panel and its key component the Parallels Partner Marketplace,” explains Mr. Jassada Deetavorn, Managing Director, Thaibizhost. “The combination of the two is simple, straightforward and powerful. It’s a complete IT-in-a-Box solution designed to meet the needs of our small business customers!”
The largest feature of Parallels Small Business Panel is Parallels Partner Marketplace, which launches with six commercial applications, including Symantec (desktop security), Interspire (email marketing & knowledge manager), Pinnacle Cart (shopping cart), LinuxMagic (Anti-Spam) and Keepit (online backup).
Cloud services providers interested in cloud enablement can leverage Parallels Partner Marketplace, to participate in a revenue-sharing model that offers their small business customers the applications they need with minimal effort. The partner marketplace takes care of the ordering, licensing, billing and subscription management aspects.
“Velocity Host is very excited to offer a truly comprehensive solution specifically designed for small businesses,” explains Gerardo Altman, Partner at Velocity Host. “The combination of Parallels Small Business Panel and Parallels Partner Marketplace enables us to grow our revenue by quickly and easily offering services and applications to our small business customers.”
“Interspire’s e-Mail Marketer and Knowledge Manager Application enables businesses to grow faster and as such are ideal applications to add to Parallels Partner Marketplace,” said Eddie Machaalani, CEO, Interspire. “Hosters can readily deliver our business-critical applications to their customers to increase revenue, while Parallels takes care of the set-up, provisioning, billing and management of the applications.”
Availability and Pricing
Parallels Small Business Panel 10.1 is available in English, German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Simplified Chinese and Russian.
The offering is available through retail, lease, or the Parallels Partner Program.
Further information on Parallels Small Business Panel’s new features and capabilities, as well as videos, screenshots and a demonstration of the new product are available at
www.parallels.com/products/smallbusinesspanel.
As of today, Parallels Small Business Panel is available through Softlayer, Codero, Viux, Robson, Turnkey Internet, Servint, Layershift, Zipservers, KickAssVPS, CCF Consulting, ISOMEDIA, Blue Ridge Internet Works, Cartagon and OVH.
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Parallels is a worldwide leader in vitalisation and automation software that optimises computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and vitalisation 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.
Beta Testers Are Required For Easy Online Back Up Solution!
VH is looking for 6 beta testers to experience our new “Online Back Up Solution” for desktops, laptops & servers. The service will allow storage of your most precious files on our back-up servers hosted in our cloud environment and available for instant restore from any location in the world (As long as you have internet access and a computer).
We are offering this opportunity to 2 testers per category:
What’s in it for me? The Good Stuff.
- All customers’ data will be transferred to our production server at the end of the 2 week trial if they wish to keep the service after testing.
- All beta testers will be provided with a free account with up to 10 GB of online storage.
- Beta testers are welcome to keep the online account with 10 GB of online storage free for 12 months with no charge for the storage space RRP $38.50/mth ($462/year).
- All beta testers that would like to keep the online account post-testing will be able to purchase the software licence for their machines at a discounted rate of $156 Inc GST (RRP $220 Inc GST) for the Server Version of the software or $78 Inc Gst (RRP $110 Inc Gst) for the Client Version of the software.. You will own the software and will only need to update to the latest version of the software (license update & support) once a year for $22/year if you would like the latest release and ongoing support.
- The software can also be used for personal backups on local machines.
(Quick overview of the backup process below)
Please contact Gerardo for more information.
getinspired@velocityhost.com.au
NSW: +61 2 8005 7353
QLD: +61 7 3040 1353
Monday 9th August 2010
VH will be rolling out an improved support system for customers to log Support Tickets and resolve support related incidents with a lightning fast turnaround time, from setting up email accounts to custom configuring your server there are articles that cover a vast range of topics and if you don’t find what your looking for simply advise staff and if appropriate our support team can create an article to fill the gap.
Support Suite is a hub of knowledge and the support team have customised “Submit A Ticket” forms for logging your support ticket requests http://support.velocityhost.com.au/
One of the key benefits of using the Support Suite for logging tickets is it’s link to our KB (Knowledge Base) of tutorials and articles. After you have filled out the “Message Details” section in the Ticket towards the bottom of the form, our system will scan the words used and present some related material that could immediately resolve your query.
If none of the documents presented assist with your problem then simply submit the form and one of our support engineers will address your support ticket according to our SLA (Service Level Agreement). Turnaround time will be greatly reduced by providing your Server IP Address, User Name and Passwords all through a securely encrypted form on initial submission of the query.
Please note “Support Suite - Submit A Ticket” will be replacing the old system of emailing support@velocityhost.com.au. This change will take place on Monday, 16th August 2010. VH invites all our customers to participate in a 5 minute trial of the software and provide feedback.
Submit your feedback via the “Message Details” section towards the bottom of the form, entering the Subject as “Feedback” and write your comments in the text box below. All input is welcomed to streamline your customer support experience.
Kind regards, Velocity Support.
DVS, From Velocity Host Is This The Solution We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sydney, Australia. (June 1, 2010) – Velocity Host (http://www.velocityhost.com.au/), Australia’s smartest provider of web hosting solutions, today announced the launch of DVS - “Dedicated Virtual Server.” (http://dedicatedvirtualserver.com.au) Velocity Host has partnered with Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/ )- the world leading innovator of virtualisation solutions - to bring DVS to the world.
DVS - was created specifically to meet the needs of Small to Medium Businesses who need more than just standard web hosting. Velocity Host’s Managed Service allows businesses to save money on employing their own IT staff as all support and services are taken care of.
How it works:
Velocity Host uses Parallels’ Virtuozzo to create your own custom Virtual Environment (VE) for cloud computing. Velocity Host creates isolated VE’s or containers on a single physical server and OS instance, allowing for dedicated CPU, Memory and Storage to be allocated to businesses virtual environments, allowing for complete control of your environment.
“Businesses demanded more flexibility from their current caged environments,” said Gerardo Altman, Founder of Velocity Host. “Businesses are asking for access to features that were not available to them through standard web hosting, such as, more Versatile Operating Environment, Dynamically Scalable, Application Customisation, Reseller Services and instant provisioning on the fly and having it all completely managed without the need for technical expertise!
“In response to demand we created DVS as our own customised solution to meet customers needs DVS- has all the features of a dedicated server without any of the headaches. Install anything, customise everything and control it all the way you want to for a fraction of the cost. Windows or Linux, 32 or 64 bit Os - it’s your choice. Just Do I.T. !”
“With Velocity Host, Ten Four hasn’t had to worry about technical issues and can focus on what we do best - web design,” said Christian Devereux, Co-Founder of Ten Four Creative Studio” Dedicated Virtual Server from Velocity Host gives our business the flexibility of having our own server and allows us to grow our business without the need to worry about installing new hardware or down time. Dedicated Virtual is simple to use, reliable and a powerful solution that meets our ever growing needs. Support from the Velocity Host team keeps our business on track 24/ 7 and allows us to deliver quality hosting solutions to our customers.”
About Velocity Host
Velocity Host (http://www.velocityhost.com.au/ )is one of Australia’s smartest provider of Internet web hosting solutions to the Small, Medium Business (SMB) and the Corporate sector. Our solutions allow our customers to focus on what they know best, their business.
Our advanced web based tools allow businesses and individuals to take control of their Internet presence putting the power of the Internet firmly back in their hands. Advanced control panels from Parallels, simple 1 click software installations through our Software As A Service (SaaS) delivery model makes managing your online presence as easy as 1, 2, 3. Velocity can easily grow with the needs of any business from simple Web hosting, a Dedicated Virtual Server solution through to Dedicated Server offerings and complete Managed Services Solutions.
Velocity Host, we make Web Hosting easy…
For more information, call +61 2 8005 7353, email getinspired@velocityhost.com.au, or visit our website http://www.velocityhost.com.au
Read our blog http://projects.velocityhost.com.au
Or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/velocity08 for the latest on what we are up to.
Media Contacts:
gerardo@velocityhost.com.au
Phone:
NSW: +61 2 8005 7353
QLD: +61 7 3040 1353
Fax: +61 2 8008 353
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Were working on the design of a new landing page for one of our clients Studs Afloat, should be rolling off the design table in the next few days, really nice design even if i do say so my self.
