WebhostingDay is On!!!

WHD is underway, it’s Europe's largest hosting event! We are here in Cologne, Germany in a theme park called Phantasialand, actually in Bruehl near Cologne – which is quite popular on this side of the world.  So far, a majority of the discussion at WHD has been around Cloud Computing. Yesterday, Jack Zubarev, President of Parallels took to the stage to talk about how the hosting industry can survive and thrive even in the current global economy.

Today promises to be an exciting day as well – Serquei Beloussov, Parallels CEO will deliver a keynote that addresses the unwavering popularity of all things cloud and discussed the Parallels vision towards the future as it relates to cloud computing  and the big companies that are starting to move into the service provider space. Later Pat Correia and Matt Leonard will discuss how to get SaaS solutions to market quickly and how SaaS is growing and even more critical for Hosters and ISVs in the current economic climate.

We’ve had fun at the networking events are being kept quite busy with all the partners and track sessions, especially in the Booths where the traffic has been quite brisk. There are actually two Booths at WHD; Parallels Booth and an APS Booth co-sponsored by Parallels, 1 & 1, and Pinnacle Cart. The activity at our Parallels Booth has been quite busy and a full team is here demonstrating and featuring Parallels Optimized Computing products. The APS Booth has been fairly busy as well being that many WHD participants are interested in offering SaaS solutions and want to know more about how APS is enabling SaaS to create new revenue opportunities for Hosters.

Well, for now from Cologne, Auf Wiedersehen!

Microsoft Hosting Summit 2009

Microsoft hosted their annual summit earlier this month; we rolled in and had a blast!  Parallels sponsored the kickoff networking event held at Lucky Strike Lanes in Seattle and good times were had by all. What better game to play than something everyone is terrible at?? The WHIR captured these pictures, visit: www.TheWHIR.com to see more!

If you missed the booth --- which would have been hard…. You probably saw us presenting; Parallels CEO, Serguei Beloussov delivered a speech that addressed Parallels Industry perspective. Other major topics at the show included the economic downturn - how it surprisingly…is affecting the industry more than any of us originally thought and of course, the topic on everyone’s forefront --- cloud computing. What’s your take? Learn more about Parallels Cloud Computing and weigh in for yourself on our LinkedIn page! 

Here’s our fancy-shmancy booth.... What?? We were there... we were bowling!!

Want to see more? Check out the WHIR’s video footage of the Microsoft Hosting Summit 2009, in Bellevue WA.

Parallels Has Free Passes for WebhostingDay!

As you have probably read below, Parallels is giving away free passes to attend WebhostingDays, held March 17th - 20th in Germany. If you want to take advantage - don't delay - the last day of the offer is March 6th (this Friday!!!). If you're interested in picking up your free passes, go to: www.parallelswhd.com because we're very excited to see you! In fact,just today, we've added Pat Correia, Senior Marketing Manager, SaaS who will join Matt Leonard, Director Automation Product Marketing, Service Provider Division to deliver "Getting SaaS Solutions to Market Quickly." The discussion will explain explain how service providers and ISVs can launch application hosting and Software-as-a-Service solutions that deploy to market quickly using automation, virtualization and the Application Packaging Standard (www.APSstandard.org).

Where: Room 2, Hosting Session Hall

When: Thursday March, 19th from 4:45 - 5:30pm

In tough ecomonic times, service providers are turning to automation solutions to help reduce costs and increase revenue through broader, richer service offerings. Don't miss the opportunity to talk to Matt & Pat (Bah!!) to find out how you can use these solutions to increase revenue and decrease churn while making it more difficult for your customers to switch to a competing service provider. See you there!