Parallels PPT Template

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Parallels Plesk Control PanelRoadmap
Todd L Crumpler Sales Development Manager,
Service Provider Division, Parallels Andrey
Andriatis Chief Software Architect / Hosting and
Automation, Parallels
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Agenda

• Parallels Plesk (Automation in Action)
• History of Plesk
• Strategy (Business and Development)
• Timeline and Roadmap
• Coming Improvements (Focus on Quality)
• Plesk Billing (Next Evolutionary Step in
  Completing the Hosting Solution)
• SMB Edition (New Business Potential for Partners)
• Plesk and APS (SaaS is Here Now)
• Sitebuilder (A Peak into the Future)
• Conclusion

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Optimized Computing

• What we do
• Virtualization, Automation,
• Plesk Products
• For Consumers,
• Businesses, Hosting, and SaaS
• Differentiation
• 55 Patents Issued/Pending
• Hypervisor OS Containers
• Open, Complementary
• Heterogeneous Support
• Full Suite of Automation
• Market Leadership
• 1 in Desktop Virtualization
• 1 in Container Virtualization
• 1 in Server Control Panels
• Fast Facts

Consumer Business (On Premise)
Service Provider(Hosted SaaS)
Usage Model
Parallels Open Platform
Ecosystem
APS Standard
APS Catalog Marketplace
APS Ecosystem
AutomationDev Platform
Automation
Plesk Billing
Plesk Expand
Virtual Automation
Operations Automation
Business Automation
Plesk Control Panel
Plesk SiteBuilder
License Automation
Solutions
Virtualization
Desktop
Workstation
Server
Containers
System Support
Baremetal/Hosted X86/x64
VMware
Xen
Windows Hyper-V
Linux
Mac OS
IA64
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History of Plesk

• Dec 1999 1st Copy of Plesk Sold (Plesk 1.0)
• Jan 2003 Plesk 5.0 Released
• Aug 2003 Plesk 6.0 Released
• Dec 2003 Plesk for Windows Released
• Feb 2004 Plesk 7 Released
• Sept 2004 Plesk 7.1 Reloaded Released
• Mar 2005 Plesk 7.5 Reloaded Released
• Mar 2005 Plesk 7.5 for Windows Released
• Oct 2005 Plesk 7.6 for Windows Released
• Mar 2006 Plesk 8.0 for Linux\UNIX Released
• Sept 2006 Plesk 8.0 for Windows Released
• Dec 2006 Plesk 8.1 Released
• Apr 2007 Plesk 8.2 Released
• Dec 2007 Plesk 8.3 Released
• May 2008 Parallels Plesk 8.4 Released

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Product Long Term Strategy

• Strive to create more ways for Partners to
  generate more revenue selling Plesk
• SMB Edition
• APS
• Plesk Billing bundled Solution
• Continuation of effort toward improvements
• Over 80 dedicated RD engineers working on
  Parallels Plesk
• Using the best of Parallels technology to build
  the next generation Control Panel.
• Constantly improving product quality.
• Striving for 100 test coverage
• Live update testing for unique platform
  continuity
• Special Focus on
• Upgrade process. Make it stable, simple and
  reliable.
• Usability. Simplify UI. Make it even more
  intuitive
• Density. Constantly increase the number of Plesk
  environments on a single hardware node.

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Development Strategy

• Develop Parallels Plesk to be the dominant
  Control Panel for Shared Hosting
• Fully integrated solution Control Panel
  Billing Content Management.
• Parallels Plesk Control Panel to address the
  needs of SMB users
• Simplified UI
• Enhanced Systems Management
• Single User Sign-on for Pre-Integrated Business
  Applications
• Parallels Plesk Control Panel as SaaS Platform
• Direct access to APS Catalog on APS publishing
  site
• Easy new applications installations, updates,
  notifications
• Parallels Plesk Control Panel for Managed Hosting
• Controlled mass push-updates
• Componentized updates

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Parallels Plesk Control Panel Timeline

• Parallels Roadmaps not available online
• Parallels Partners may contact their sales
  representative regarding roadmap availability

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Improvements

• Usability
• Merge Home and Desktop pages
• Optimize command buttons
• Provide helping tooltips
• Simplify administrative tasks
• Hosting setup
• Limits assignments
• Templates management
• Hide unused service groups
• New Structural Hierarchy
• Your input is highly appreciated

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New Hierarchy (Resellers)
PLESK ADMIN
PLESK ADMIN
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
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Easy Account Migration
PLESK ADMIN
PLESK ADMIN
CLIENT
DOMAIN

• New Ability to Oversell Account Resources
• Flexible Resource Usage Management (Reactions to
  Over Usage)
• Full API Backward Compatibility Eliminating
  Update Concerns
• Billing API on Reseller level
• Each Reseller can have own instance of billing
  system

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Easy Account Migration
PLESK ADMIN
PLESK ADMIN
RESELLER
RESELLER
CLIENT
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
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Improvements

• System Enhancements
• PHP over CGI/FastCGI
• lighttpd for Control Panel server
• Improved DNS Management
• Multiple MTA Options
• Postfix
• Multiple webmail on Unix
• _at_mail support
• Mail Greylisting
• On-demand service activation

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Improvements

• Upgrade process
• Per-component upgrade
• User content Security
• Pre-Update Test Certification
• Update Failure Recovery Tools
• Mass Updates Option with Controlled Updates Push
• Multi-Level backup/restore
• Server
• Reseller
• Client
• Domain

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Managed Hosting

• Controlled pushed updates

DOWNLOAD MIRROR
PLESK SERVER 1
PLESK SERVER 2
PLESK SERVER 3
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Multi-Level Backup/Restore
PLESK ADMIN
LOCAL DISK / WORKSTATION
RESELLER
CLIENT
PROVIDERS FTP / USERS FTP
DOMAIN
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Plesk Billing

• Complete Hosting Solution
• Seamless end to end integration
• Sell, Provision, Manage hosting plans
• Full automation and management of domain
  registrations
• Hosting plans synchronized with provisioning
  templates
• Integrated GUI for service provider and clients
• Support for over 20 payment gateways
• Stages of Integration with ModernBill
• Stage 1 Installation bundle (Q308)
• Stage 2 Billing module in PPCP (Q408)

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SMB Edition
PLESK ADMIN

• Simplified user model
• No Resellers or Clients
• Create own company websites
• Manage email for employees
• Manage custom service accounts
• Enhanced Server Management
• Manage users and groups
• Configure corporate file server
• Manage users access
• Integrated backup/restore

DOMAIN(s)
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SMB Edition

• Integrated Solutions
• Collaboration
• Content Management
• E-Commerce
• Single Sign-On for all applications
• Central desktop for user access
• High density virtualized offering
• Fast migration from shared hostingto dedicated
  SMB solution

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Plesk and SaaS Opportunity

• 5 of new business software deployed as a service
  2005
• 25 of new business software deployed as a
  service 2011
• Opportunity
• 8B (2006) gt 40B (2011)
• 50 million SMB customers
• Types of applications
• CRM, web conferencing, web content management,
  HR, supply chain, collaboration, email, and more

SaaS of Business Software Market opportunity
8B increasing to 40B

• Example Case
• 55 of IBMs over 10,000 PartnerWorld ISVs are
  considering offering Software as a Service
• IBM PartnerWorld Survey

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Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog

• Browse through applications available on APS
  Publishing site
• Convenient grouping by application types
• Flexible search criteria
• Subscription for applications updates
  notifications
• Install selected applications on Plesk server
• Push applications into Clients application pools

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Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog
APPLICATION VAULT
APS CATALOG
CLIENTS APPLICATION POOL
CLIENTS APPLICATION POOL
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New Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder 5.0 features

• Mobile sites support
• Ability for the site owners to create dotMobi
  compatible sites and to add dotMobi compatibility
  (xHTML MP) to their existing sites
• Supported browsers Nokia default browser, Opera
  Mini

• Event Calendar module
• Helps site owners to organize weddings,
  birthdays, reunions and all celebrations easily
  and in style

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Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder Timeline

• Parallels Roadmaps not available online
• Parallels Partners may contact their sales
  representative regarding roadmap availability

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Extend Your Business with Parallels

• Building the Next Generation Hosting Platform and
  Control Panel.
• Consolidating the best of several technologies
  for the future.
• Controlled mass updates (Solidify your Update
  Process)
• Qualification Testing
• More Complete Shared and Reseller Hosting
  Solution
• Integrated Control Panel Billing Content
  Management in one platform installation.
• Special offering for SMB Hosting
• Plesk SMB Edition directly addresses selling to
  Small Companies
• Ready for SaaS Platform
• Integrated access to the APS publishing site
  makes APS applications readily available

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Summary

• Use Parallels Plesk to tailor your product
  offerings toward the customer and make more
  sales
• SMB Edition (small business owners)
• Target local SMEs and SMBs with pre-packaged
  business deal
• Create natural path for Shared customers to grow
  internally
• Go Green Use Virtualization and Plesk to make
  more money per square inch in your datacenter
• Plesk Billing (shared hosting provider\reseller)
• Offer a complete management solution for the
  service reseller
• Automate provisioning process for Shared Hosting
  accounts
• Easily extend your service offerings (Domain
  Registration Online Payments)
• APS (Application Service Provider)
• Use Plesk to quickly create a SaaS offering
  (Ecommerce, Blogging etc)
• Grab a piece of the fastest growing business
  segment in hosting today.
• See Doug Johnsons presentation and how to charge
  for SaaS and APS

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You can Help Shape the Future of Plesk

• Immediately following this presentation is a
  hands on live lab for anyone that wants to
  participate (Room XYZ)
• There is a questionnaire with 3 questions at your
  table please help us out by taking a couple
  minutes to answer some very simple questions
  about Plesk. Your feedback is invaluable and
  appreciated.
• See Todd or Andrey or Anton after the
  presentation to discuss the roadmap, features, or
  even current issues.
• Parallels Plesk Development team is looking for
  Partners to assist us with Beta testing Plesk
  updates if you would like to get the earliest
  access possible to new software releases please
  talk to Andrey or Todd to set up a meeting.