Nov, 2001 : IBM selects Sphera for European hosting customers

📅 November 15, 2001 - IBM (ibm.com) and the Sphera Corporation (sphera.com) have announced that Sphera's HostingDirector software is being offered by IBM to Internet Service Providers and Web Hosting Providers across Europe as the best of breed hosting automation solution. IBM is offering HostingDirector to over 8,000 customers as part of its Blue Velocity campaign, which is geared to help IBM's European customers efficiently and quickly integrate critical technologies and attractive, new services. Teaming with industry leading solution providers such as Sphera, the program offers solutions that address pressing market needs.

"IBM solutions are designed to provide customers with top quality, robust technology. We have teamed with up with Sphera to offer our customers the best of breed hosting platform," said Peter Faulkner, e-business segment manager at IBM. "The combination of IBM's eServer xSeries servers and HostingDirector software is an extraordinarily powerful solution."
Sphera's HostingDirector automates and streamlines all aspects of a Web hosting operation, significantly reducing its costs. In addition, HostingDirector gives Web hosting providers a high performance, scalable hosting platform that allows them to automatically provision and easily scale new services. As a result, hosting providers can quickly introduce new, revenue-generating services on a mass scale and dramatically boost their sales. This is made especially easy with HostingDirector's pre-integrated ValueApps, over 40 popular plug-in applications, including ColdFusion, ChiliSoft, and Real Server, that allow customers to easily upgrade their services as new applications emerge and as their business needs evolve.
"We're delighted that IBM has chosen HostingDirector as the best automation solution for its customers," said Tamar Naor, CEO of Sphera. "It is further evidence of Sphera's position as the leading developer of hosting automation software."

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