IBM Selects Sphera's HostingDirector as Best Hosting Automation Solution - Business - Sphera Corp. HostingDirector - Brief Article

ISP Business, Nov, 2001

IBM and the Sphera Corporation have announced that Sphera's HostingDirector software is being offered by IBM to Internet Service Providers and Web Hosting Providers across Europe as a 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 solution providers such as Sphera, the program offers solutions that address pressing market needs.

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.