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Parallels Plesk Panel. RoadMap and Update

Parallels Plesk Panel. RoadMap and Update. Andrey Andriatis Chief Architect, Parallels Plesk Panel. Agenda. Product Vision Feature Planning Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 Parallels Plesk Panel Roadmap Parallels Panel Suite Parallels Plesk Panel Planned Features Parallels Panel SMB Edition

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Parallels Plesk Panel. RoadMap and Update

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  1. Parallels Plesk Panel.RoadMap and Update Andrey Andriatis Chief Architect, Parallels Plesk Panel

  2. Agenda • Product Vision • Feature Planning • Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 • Parallels Plesk Panel Roadmap • Parallels Panel Suite • Parallels Plesk Panel Planned Features • Parallels Panel SMB Edition • Questions

  3. Parallels Panel Technology: Big Picture External Services Provisioned Services Domain Registrar Parallels Marketplace PaymentGateway APS Catalog Apache Internal Functions IIS SSL ASP.NET Use Control Panel Tomcat Resellers DNS, Firewall Customers Parallels Plesk Web Statistics Network FTP Panel Installation / Update Manage Licensing Mail (AV/AS) Provision Backup/Migration Web Mail Billing Events/Notification VPN Scheduler Sitebuilder and more … Customization Branding/Localization Locally provisioned 100s of APS Applications and Services Integrate Externally provisioned APS Applications and Services External Systems Parallels Automation Parallels VirtuozzoContainers Billing Parallels Server

  4. Feature Planning – Who Uses PPP • Shared Hosting and SMB users4 types of Parallels Plesk Panel users • Resellers – 1000,000s • Datacenters – 1000s • Shared Hosting Administrators – 10,000s • SMB IT Administrators – 100,000s • Clients – 1,000,000s • End Users – 10,000,000s • End Users – 1,000,000s

  5. Parallels Plesk Panel: What is Important Automate Your Hosting Business: Easy, Profitable, and Complete. • Easy • Easy – for you (hoster), your resellers, your end-users • Easy for dedicated company to provision and license • Easy to work with Parallels overall • Profitable • Profitable for you • Profitable for dedicated company • Profitable for end-users • Complete • Complete all around: • back office, applications, services, features, API • For you, your customers, and resellers

  6. How do we plan features? • Your feedback • 90% of features are coming from our users • How it’s evaluated: • Who is the feature for – one of our user category • Does it matches our paradigm • Make product Easier to use • Make it more Profitable • Make the solution more Complete

  7. Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0

  8. Easy: New! Interface and Home Pages • New Home pages for each user role • More menu items in left navigation for easy access common functions. • Configure all settings from a single screen • Easier navigation between objects • New Vista-like skin

  9. Profitable: New! Reseller Role PARALLELS PLESK PANEL ADMIN • Offer New Reseller Plans • Same functionality as Parallels Plesk Panel Admin. • Separate billing management • Customizable look and feel for control panel branding • Full API Backward Compatibility RESELLER CLIENT CLIENT CLIENT DOMAIN DOMAIN DOMAIN DOMAIN Domain Administrator Domain Administrator Domain Administrator

  10. Profitable: New! Integration with APS Catalog • Offer and deploy 100s of applications with a single click • Everything from • http://apsstandard.com/ • Address SaaS Market • Manage application updates • Mass provision applications to clients

  11. Complete: New! Integrated w/Parallels Plesk Billing • Seamless end-to-end integration with Single Sign On • Sell, Provision, and Manage Service Plans • Automate your shared hosting business • Jonathan McCarrick • Parallels Plesk Billing • Technology Track 2:45 - 3:30 pm

  12. Complete: New! Multi-Level Backup • Allow users to create full or partial backup for their accounts • Backup just configuration or include services content • Store backups locally or outside the Parallels Plesk server PARALLELS PLESK PANEL ADMIN RESELLER LOCAL DISK / WORKSTATION Backup Backup Backup Backup CLIENT DOMAIN PROVIDER’S FTP / USER’S FTP Web User Mail User

  13. Complete: New! Dozens of other features • New OS Support • OpenSuSE 11 • Oversell • Administrator, Reseller, Client can oversell their resources • Overuse • Administrator and Reseller can allow their clients exceeding the resource limits assigned to them • Notification can be issued before a resource limit is reached • Easy account migration • From domain admin to client, from client to reseller. • PHP over CGI/FastCGI • Faster execution of PHP scripts • Safe execution of PHP scripts • Choice of PHP version (Windows only) • lighttpd for Control Panel server • Easier configuration • Increased Parallels Virtuozzo Container density • Multiple MTA Options • Postfix • Multiple webmail on Unix • Atmail support

  14. Parallels Plesk Panel Roadmap

  15. Split between Shared Hosting and SMB • Shared Hosting and SMB business requires different approaches PARALLELS PLESK PANEL SMB EDITION PARALLELS PANEL SHARED HOSTING SMALL BUSINESSES

  16. Parallels Plesk Products Roadmap

  17. Profitable: APS 1.1 Format Support • Provisions APS applications from Parallels Marketplace, APS Catalog, provider’s online store, ISVs directly • Generates new types of services based on APS meta-data • Makes services assignable to end users • Puts application entry points to users’ home pages SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE APPLICATION APPLICATION PROVIDER’S STORE ISV APS CATALOG MARKETPLACE Parallels Panel USER’S HOME USER’S HOME SERVICE SERVICE USER’S HOME SERVICE

  18. Profitable: Enabling Hosted Services • Uses APS format to build interfaces between hosted applications and the control panel user accounts • Allows for services hosted by providers or ISVs directly External Services Parallels Marketplace APS Catalog Use Parallels Plesk Provisioned Services Panel Externally provisioned APS Applications and Services Provision Billing Sitebuilder

  19. Profitable: Parallels Marketplace Integration • Provides participating applications promotion from the control panel pages • Forwards Parallels Panel clients to Parallels Marketplace • Automates purchased application license management • Automates purchased SSL certificates provisioning External Services Parallels Marketplace CA Authority • Contact: • Soeren von Varchmin • varchmin@parallels.com Use Provisioned Services SSL Parallels Plesk Locally provisioned 100s of APS Applications and Services Panel Provision Billing Externally provisioned APS Applications and Services Sitebuilder

  20. Parallels Partner Marketplace – How it Works? Your Brand Storefront viaParallels Business Automation • Customers view your Brand on Storefront leading to the Marketplace • Buy NowLinks Inside Parallels Plesk Panel Lead to Marketplace • End-Customer Purchases Application on Marketplace • End-Customer Returns to Parallels Plesk Panel After Purchase • Licenses and Applications are Automatically Installed on Plesk CP Server User’s Parallels Plesk Panel Application Portal 1 2 3 5 4 Customer Environment Parallels Partner Marketplace 20 1. Customers Enters Your Store 2. Adds App(s) to Shopping Cart 3. Customer Makes Purchase 4. Customer Leaves Your Store 5. App & License are Auto Installed

  21. Complete: Parallels Panel Suite • Complete Integration between • Parallels Plesk Panel • Parallels Plesk Billing • Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder • Combined PP Billing hosting and PP Sitebuilder CM plans • Subscriptions instead of templates in PPP • Jonathan McCarrick • Parallels Plesk Billing • Technology Track 2:45 - 3:30 pm Parallels Plesk Panel Billing Sitebuilder

  22. Parallels Plesk Panel Planned Features • Installer • Componentized Windows Installer • Rollbacks of failed upgrades • Flexible DB management. • Attach/detach existing DBs • Assign private and public databases • Single DB user for multiple databases • Easy • Complete • IPv6 support • Hosting management • DNS templates; Service DNS zone; NAT support • Web clusters support • Linux Virtual Server (LVS) support • Additional FTP accounts • Mail improvements • Greylisting • Smarter spam processing • Archiving mail traffic for specified domains • SMTP Authorization instead of POP3 • Mail piping • Password Protected Mailing-Lists • Complete • Security • Site isolation • Mail certificates • Secure FTP support • Apache mod_security support • Notifications • Customized by Resellers • Customize notification subject

  23. Parallels Panel SMB Edition

  24. Parallels Panel SMB Edition Goals • Parallels Plesk Panel 9 • Gained more features supporting shared hosting specifically • Separated server and sites management • Separated UI navigation by user roles • Parallels Panel SMB Edition • Simplifies UI navigation for SMB administrator • Maintains corporate web sites, mail, databases • Installs any APS business applications • Manages SMB employees as service users • Provides system, collaboration and business services • Integrates with Parallels Marketplace • Enables hosting providers selling SMB plans with bundled business applications

  25. Why Parallels Panel SMB Edition • Easy • Easy to install, configure, manage company sites, mail, DBs • Easy to service company employees • Easy to add 100s of APS business applications • Profitable • Gain on high density virtual hosted environment • Sell APS applications and their bundles • Profit on licenses sold on Parallels Marketplace • Complete • Dedicated all you need virtual business server • Variety of business applications at hand • Integrated CM solution for the business sites

  26. Easy: Simplified Administration • Take advantage of lesser hosting objects • Fewer domains, websites; mail accounts; databases • No traditional client hierarchy • Main functions divided into specialized tabs

  27. Easy: SMB Users and Roles • Panel Users – Company Employees • Permissions are set by the Roles • System services are assigned to users and roles List of Users Role Settings

  28. Easy: End User Panel • User can access all applications and services from a single launch pad

  29. Easy: File Manager and File Sharing • Fully functional File Manager application for system administrators • Personal directories access for the employees • File sharing across organizations and within functional groups • External HTTP and FTP access to the designated files and folders

  30. Complete: APS 1.1 Applications • Install APS 1.1 applications from APS Catalog, Parallels Marketplace, provider’s store • Application entry points are regarded as new system services • Initial context configuration may done by system administrator

  31. Big Picture: Easy, Profitable, and Complete Profitable Complete Domain Registrar Parallels Marketplace PaymentGateway APS Catalog Apache Easy IIS SSL ASP.NET Use Control Panel Tomcat Resellers DNS, Firewall Customers Parallels Plesk Web Statistics Network FTP Panel Installation / Update Manage Licensing Mail (AV/AS) Provision Backup/Migration Web Mail Billing Events/Notification VPN Scheduler Sitebuilder and more … Customization Branding/Localization Locally provisioned 100s of APS Applications and Services Integrate Externally provisioned APS Applications and Services Complete Parallels Automation Parallels VirtuozzoContainers Billing Parallels Server

  32. Questions?

  33. Thank You!

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