New VMware hosting platform

Unigold has moved and ungraded its hosting platform.

We are proud to annouce that we have moved the hosting to a VMware platform giving us and you the client greater efficiency and more flexibility through Datanet.

History of Virtualization

Virtualization was first developed in the 1960s to partition large, mainframe hardware for better hardware utilization. Today, computers based on x86 architecture are faced with the same problems of rigidity and underutilization that mainframes faced in the 1960s. VMware invented virtualization for the x86 platform in the 1990s to address underutilization and other issues, overcoming many challenges in the process. Today, VMware is the global leader in x86 virtualization, with over 150,000 customers, including 100% of the Fortune 100.

Virtualization dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organization. Internal resources are underutilized under the old “one server, one application” model and IT admins spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating. An automated datacenter, built on a VMware virtualization platform, lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Unigold have also upgraded the two main packages it uses for hosting platform

Parallels Pro

Parallels Pro Control Panel (formerly known as Ensim Pro) is a single-server hosting automation and control panel solution for hosted websites, email, and online applications. It includes comprehensive tools that enable hosting providers to create, control, and deliver a variety of professional-quality hosting plans in minutes.

Parallels Pro’s control panel offers four powerful roles, each with its own roles and responsibilities:

• Service Provider Administrator — Manages servers, resellers, and sites
  
  
• Reseller Administrator — Creates and manages sites on a portion of the server
  
  
• Site Administrator — Manages users and site configuration
  
  
• End User Administrator — Manages email and supports site as permissions allow

Mailenable

MailEnable Professional Edition includes all features of MailEnable Standard Edition plus additional functionality such as web mail and web administration, 3rd party antivirus scanning, enhanced anti-spam features & IMAP4.  Professional Edition provides the features and flexibility to make it the ideal mail hosting solution for small to medium sized organizations.