Jan 10, 2002 : SWsoft Releases Virtuozzo 2.0


📅 - SWsoft , Inc. (sw-soft.com), a server and networkingsoftware company, today announced the release of VirtuozzoT 2.0, an upgradeof the 1.0 technology designed to bring mainframe-like functionality tocommodity Intel-based architecture.

Virtuozzo supports shared, dedicated and virtual private servers and offerscustomers advanced and dedicated server capabilities, such as e-commerce anddatabase functions. Companies looking to establish or increase thesophistication of their Web presence, can use dedicated servers to hostapplications at a lower price point, the company says.
Virtuozzo 2.0 has the following features:
Multi-tenancy - Hundreds of customers share a single, physicalserver, even though it appears as if they have their own dedicatedenvironmentVirtualization - Virtualizes CPU resources and appears to customersas a stand-alone, dedicated serverResource management - Enables systems administrators to control thecustomer resource levels and offer service- level agreements and quality ofservice guaranteesClustering - Allows customers to transparently move in-betweenservers without affecting the quality of the network
Virtuozzo 2.0 works with Intel-based commodity servers and allows companiesof any size email, firewalls, domain name service and other functionalities,usually found only in the enterprise.
"Virtuozzo is the multi-tenancy technology behind our HSPcomplete solutionand is the only solution designed to allow Web hosting companies managetheir data center as a single resource and serve hundreds of customer on asingle, physical server," said Craig Oda, VP business development Swsoft."As the Internet more deeply permeates he fabric of traditional business,small and medium-sized businesses will need a more sophisticated Webpresence. Virtuozzo 2.0 surpasses the Virtual Web Host and enables Webhosting companies to offer a wide-range of shared and dedicated servercapabilities, at lower price points."
Virtuozzo 2.0 is the technology behind HSPcomplete, a full-lifecycle hostingautomation solution that helps manage and provision network, e-commerce andoperations processes. HSPcomplete is designed to solve business andinfrastructure challenges and includes a full set of business,infrastructure, reseller and customer tools.

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