November 27, 2003

By: Geoff Banners
Website: http://www.1st-in-web-hosting.com

Sphera targets large enterprise web hosting providers with greater opportunity for service differentiation and profitability

Sphera Corporation, the leading global provider of Web hosting automation and management software today announced the release of HostingDirector(R) 3.7 is Red Hat Ready, ensuring compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, boasting flexibility for brand and service differentiation and greater control over service quality. Sphera's HostingDirector and ResellerDirector(TM) are key components of HostingBusiness Suite(TM), a comprehensive Web hosting automation and management solution.

Sphera has made significant improvements in HostingDirector to address the needs of large-scale hosting providers and telecommunications companies and their high-end customers, says Michael Gold, CEO, Sphera. We are constantly assessing the real-world needs of the market and our customers, adding relevant features and capabilities, as required by the industry's leading providers, that deliver competitive advantages, drive-down their costs and increase their productivity.

Sphera's HostingBusiness Suite streamlines operations and automates management of the most complex large enterprise Web hosting provider businesses. In conjunction with Red Hat's plans to end support for free product versions, Sphera will provide customers with continuity for Linux's operating system by supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 in HostingDirector 3.7. This ensures Sphera's customers have secure and up-to-date systems, meet certification requirements by both application and hardware vendors, and ultimately protect the life cycle investment of their Linux operating system.

HostingDirector 3.7 addresses providers' needs to add custom and premium services to maximize revenues while minimizing operating costs. Implementation of the new release of HostingDirector is made simple and quick through a seamless installation process and installation templates that remember administrator settings for repeat installations across multiple servers. New features and several enhancements give hosting providers strategic and competitive advantages:

Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) Module Creates Enterprise Revenue Generation Opportunities, Tightens Individual Account Controls: HostingDirector 3.7 offers Web hosting providers an advanced QoS module made possible by Sphera's patented Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS(TM) technology. Sphera's QoS is designed to maximize and control server resources. This includes the ability to define the amount of memory or CPU processing that each individual account (i.e. VDS) may consume at any given time thus enabling the service provider to enforce service level agreements (SLA) with their high-value customers. In addition, the QoS module can control the number of CPU processes, disk space and bandwidth consumption for each VDS. All of these features are controlled and monitored by a powerful reporting system that offers provider real-time access to customer activity. In turn, Web hosting providers are able to charge a premium for guaranteed service levels and increase individual server capacity while controlling the server as well as the resources dedicated to each individual account.

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